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Dilrukshi Handunnetti is a lawyer by training and a journalist by choice. She currently serves as the Consulting Editor of the Daily and Weekend Express, Sri Lanka’s first international newspapers.

Dilrukshi is a Gender Focal Point for the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) -the Asia Pacific, Co-convenor of South Asian Women in Media – Sri Lanka Chapter and the Executive Trustee of the Center for Investigative Journalism –Sri Lanka.

Dilrukshi has worked across South Asia as a reporter, trainer and media researcher. She spends considerable time supporting media solidarity initiatives in South Asia. Much of her work focuses on governance, gender and media rights.

Parliamentary polls: Dawn of a new political era in Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Nov 15, 2024

As the island nation votes for a new parliament, it’s clear that the people are rejecting an earlier generation of politicians. It’s nothing short of a power transition

Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Marxist who shattered Lanka’s elite politics

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Oct 3, 2024

Part anti-corruption crusader and part reformist, the village lad shattered the 76 years of elite politics by becoming the island’s 10th president last week. Young Anura Dissanayake grew up amid lush paddy fields, ancient irrigation tanks…

Sri Lanka’s struggle with election phobia

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Jun 3, 2024

The call to postpone elections is an indirect acceptance by President Wickremesinghe of his inability to obtain a popular mandate, no matter what his economy-fixing mantra is

‘A curse’: Three years since Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Apr 21, 2022

Protesters at Colombo camp demand justice on the third anniversary of the devastating simultaneous bombings that killed nearly 270 people

Rajapaksas face ‘Lanka spring’ heat

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Apr 13, 2022

In Colombo, hundreds of people are camping out and chanting one slogan “Gota Go Home” and the protests are gathering momentum.

Sri Lanka gets its first president with military credentials

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Nov 20, 2019

Gotabaya Rajapaksha the newly elected President of Srilanka is a controversial figure, a polarising political figure in Srilanka. What to be expected from his rule and why it is going be diffrent is explained comprrhensively in this article…

Remembering Lasantha

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Dec 14, 2017 1

Lasantha Wickremathunga 8th death anniversary was held at Borella cemetery today. 08 Jan, 2017. Eight years after the murder of The Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, his colleague Dilrukshi Handunnetti remembers all that he…

Clean cookstoves key to Sri Lanka’s green village drive

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Dec 14, 2017 0

In central Sri Lanka, energy-efficient stoves are helping small businesses to flourish and encourage low carbon development. Rows of bottled savoury snacks, known as murukku, are ready for collection at TAW Bandara’s modest home in…