Originally From: https://newleftsoccuhk.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-roar-and-hope-of-tears-in-indian.html 7/15/2022 Interviewed by Yasoun In April 2022, demonstrations against rising prices and material shortages broke out in the South Asian island nation of Sri Lanka. The demonstrations soon turned into nationwide protests. In May, Sri Lanka’s largest opposition party— the center-left Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) held a large-scale demonstration in the capital, Colombo’s Independence Square, followed by college students storming the National Assembly in June and July, the authorities imposing an emergency nationwide curfew, demonstrators occupied the presidential residence, and the president went into exile in the…