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An 11-year-old Washington, D.C., boy was among at least four American citizens who were killed in a series of terrorist attacks at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.
Haunting pictures show the Sri Lanka suicide bomber who was educated in Britain as a young boy before he was radicalised. Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed was one of eight attackers who set off a ...
‘Funny Boy’ Review: A Gorgeous Queer Coming-of-Age Tale Set in a Divided Sri Lanka Deepa Mehta's gorgeous adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai's popular novel sets an intimate romance amidst ...
“Funny Boy” is the first major film to dramatize the events of 1983, a subject which outsiders know little about, and that is often swept under the rug in Sri Lanka.
Pulled from the mud as an infant after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and reunited with his parents following an emotional court battle, the boy once known as “Baby 81” is now a ...
Leo Burnett Sri Lanka, the only D&AD awarded agency in Sri Lanka, has earned the distinction of winning ..
Children in Sri Lanka whose schools have been destroyed by the tsunami are to be helped by "school in a box" kits being sent by Unicef. The United Nation's children's agency is delivering the first ...
Also Read: 'Funny Boy' Trailer: Canada's Oscar Entry Is a Coming-of-Age Saga in '70s Sri Lanka (Video) Though much of the novel is autobiographical, Mehta said the story felt like her own.
The grief-stricken father of the young Washington DC boy killed in Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings broke his silence on Monday, saying the terrorists who murdered his son have no idea what ...
Deepa Mehta's "Funny Boy" juxtaposes a gay teenage love story with rising ethnic tensions in Sri Lanka for a film that is ultimately about thriving, or just surviving, as someone deemed ...
“Funny Boy” is the first major film to dramatize the events of 1983, a subject which outsiders know little about, and that is often swept under the rug in Sri Lanka.