Yupun Abeykoon of Sri Lanka runs in the men's 100m at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Steve Christo - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images "People found it incredible that I am from South Asia because they ...

Unlike other countries in the region, Sri Lanka is the only island nation -- nestled in the Indian Ocean -- where the transition from colonial Ceylon to an independent, democratic, socialist republic ...

Sri Lanka’s current economic crisis is thus a wake-up call for all nations in South Asia. Two countries in particular—Bangladesh and Pakistan—have similar trends of “familycratic ...