Anjali Fernando
Food, Culture & Outdoors Writer
Sri Lankan food, surf culture, wildlife, and the cultural calendar. Esala Perahera in Kandy, the Galle Literary Festival, the Vesak season.
Anjali writes the food, culture, and outdoors coverage for the Sri Lanka desk. The obvious arcs are there (kottu and hoppers, the Galle and Jaffna food scenes, the Esala Perahera in Kandy) plus the less obvious ones: which Yala safari operators are actually conservation-aligned, where the surf culture sits relative to the foreign-owned end of the south coast.
Her food coverage favours where Sri Lankans eat on a Tuesday over the resort-restaurant circuit. Her wildlife pieces assume readers want to see animals without subsidising the worst of the safari-jeep crush.
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On the desk since 2024.