Even if you knew nothing about Vijaya, her haunting portrait would likely give you pause. She peers out of the page, unsmiling, her silver hair pulled back and her eyes conveying an unspoken anguish.

Before Karan Gokani visited the teardrop-shaped island of Sri Lanka, he expected the food to be reminiscent of South India. Instead, he discovered a melange of flavors influenced by Tamils, Sinhalese, ...

Sri Lankan Tamil cuisine derives its heat from the generous use of chillies both as dried chilli flakes as well as roasted and ground into curry powder. Like many other women, Malathy often sold ...