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  1. Returning lives, rebuilding limbs

    05:32

    by Kannan Arunasalam / Added

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    A Sinhalese doctor from Birmingham returns to Sri Lanka to help amputees at the Mannar hospital. Part of the Longing and Belonging series looking at the diaspora returning to Sri Lanka. Produced…

  2. The science of planning in Jaffna

    03:25

    by Kannan Arunasalam / Added

    530 Plays / / 0 Comments

    A scientist from Saudi Arabia returns to Sri Lanka to plan a project in his hometown of Jaffna. Part of the Longing and Belonging series looking at the diaspora returning to Sri Lanka. Produced by…

  3. From London to Jaffna for the first time

    01:39

    by Kannan Arunasalam / Added

    552 Plays / / 0 Comments

    A Tamil family from London visit Jaffna during the famous Nallur festival. Part of the Longing and Belonging series looking at the diaspora returning to Sri Lanka. Produced by Kannan Arunasalam This…

  4. Longing and belonging series

    02:23

    by Kannan Arunasalam / Added

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    Longing and belonging series: diaspora shorts A series of short portraits about three diaspora individuals and the different ways in which they engage with being in Sri Lanka. Produced by Kannan…

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    • Paper

      07:53

      by Kannan Arunasalam / Added

      3,011 Plays / / 6 Comments

      In the 1990s, the Sri Lankan government’s embargoes on fuel, medicines and food items in the north and east of Sri Lanka in an effort to frustrate the operations of a separatist militant group known…

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      • Koothu

        07:21

        by Kannan Arunasalam / Added

        2,079 Plays / / 4 Comments

        During the 1980s, a team of doctors led by Dr Sivarajah discovered an increasing number of cases of leprosy in the village of Kartupolam in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka. This video portrait tells…

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        • Kerosene

          08:31

          by Kannan Arunasalam / Added

          5,765 Plays / / 8 Comments

          In the 1990s, the Sri Lankan government’s embargoes on fuel, medicines and food items in the north and east of Sri Lanka in an effort to frustrate the operations of a separatist militant group known…

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          • Trailer: Koothu, paper and kerosene

            01:53

            by Kannan Arunasalam / Added

            2,168 Plays / / 2 Comments

            How does a taxi driver take the sick to the hospital when there's no fuel around? How does a newspaper publish news of bombs and deaths without newsprint? And how does a community with leprosy survive…

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            • Kaffir culture

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              by Kannan Arunasalam / Added

              18.6K Plays / / 19 Comments

              Historians say that the Kaffirs of Sri Lanka started arriving from the eastern shores of Africa in the 1500s with the Portuguese, and later in more waves with the different colonizers of Sri Lanka. 'Kaffir…

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