Thayalini Indrakularasa
Thayalini Indrakularasa is a journalist who worked with Global Press Journal from 2018 to 2024. Her reporting focuses on the socio-economic challenges faced by communities in the Northern and rural regions of Sri Lanka. Her work has contributed to international understanding of the conditions of Tamil communities and has been cited in various publications and research.
Forced Out of Their Own Land: Sinhala Colonisation in the Vanni
The Kivul Oya project exemplifies a decades-long pattern in which the Sri Lankan state uses irrigation and settlement schemes to dispossess Tamil communities in the North-East. Framed as development, the scheme follows earlier projects like Mahaweli System L, altering ethnic demographics, renaming Tamil landscapes in Sinhala, and displacing agricultural livelihoods while promising benefits that rarely reach the people whose land is taken.
