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Hunger
Power cuts. Fuel queues. Popular uprising. A historic and crisis-ridden year in Sri Lanka is drawing to a close. For many, the battles are just beginning.
Andrew Fidel Fernando is a journalist based in Colombo, and author of the award-winning travelogue Upon a Sleepless Isle.