My beloved Sri Lanka- What's next?

Will the ousting of the Rajapaksas bring about real change in the island paradise? We will have to wait and watch.

There was a lull in the monsoons on that July 2009 afternoon when I got on a bus from Colombo’s Fort for the Katunayake junction. My Sri Lankan brother’s car had issues, and so for the first time since I started visiting the country in 2002 I was taking public transport to the airport.

The bus had a photo of Mahinda Rajapaksa, then a hero for ending the…