On a humid morning in June 2006, a mosque in Colombo, Sri Lanka, buzzed with the activities of my nikah (Islamic marriage) ceremony. The men, I imagine, were huddled together around the marriage ...

Paradise, directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage, is playing in the Icons: South Asia section of Mumbai Film Festival, fresh from its world premiere at Busan International Film Festival ...

The custom of paying dowry with property is forcing up land prices and putting many families in debt, say civil activists SAINTHAMARUTHU, Sri Lanka, Dec 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - I t was ...

TO AVOID being married at 17 to a stranger, the Muslim schoolgirl from Sri Lanka’s north-west tried to commit suicide by swallowing a bottle of her mother’s diabetes pills. While she was recovering in ...

Zeenath's parents believed it was best for girls to marry early in the event of a proposal. The 16-year-old had studied hard and obtained a government job with plans to save for a dowry, a traditional ...

Me & Me Blog from Sri Lanka on why marriage is an outdated concept. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building community and defending ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Dutch colonial Sri Lanka in the eighteenth century offers a unique opportunity to study the dynamics of colonial control of everyday family ...

Even in a country where marriage has been seen as a sacred institution, this is an alarming find. But the failure of the marriages does not purely lie in the incompatibilities of couples, according to ...

Anuk Arudpragasam is a novelist from Colombo and is the author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. In Colombo, as though there is war once more, the ominous presence of heavily armed soldiers is ...

SAINTHAMARUTHU, Sri Lanka, Dec 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was another day of agony for Rizeena, as she waited with her family at their home in eastern Sri Lanka to meet yet another potential ...