Sri Lanka’s plantation workers are a long-marginalized group who frequently live in dire poverty, but they can swing elections by voting as a bloc. Mahohari and her family are descended from ...

In Sri Lanka the fruit became popular a little over a decade ago. The fruit is now commercially grown and freely available in most fruit stalls and supermarkets and is also exported. When you look at ...

Sri Lanka's Plantation Workers Live on the Margins. but Politicians Still Want Their Votes SPRING VALLEY, Sri Lanka (AP) — Whoever Sri Lanka's next president is, Muthuthevarkittan Manohari isn't ...

There are around 1.5 million descendants of plantation workers living in Sri Lanka today, including about 3.5% of the electorate, and some 470,000 people still live on plantations.