Return to Sri Lanka

‘Insightful’ *  Hindu (India) *‘Comprehensive’ * Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) *‘Vivid’ * Telegraph (India) *‘A modern-day vagabond walking the less travelled paths of Sri Lanka’ – Captain Elmo Jayawardena * The Island *‘A mine of information about Sri Lanka, its people and politics from someone with considerable knowledge and expertise’ – Frank Beyer * Asian Review of Books *‘Sally’s book is an exemplar of the best in the genre’  – Krishnan Srinivasan  * The Statesman *‘This highly readable book captures the spirit of a nation’ – Gurcharan Das, author of India Unbound

Razeen Sally is a Sri Lankan–British writer. He taught political economy and international relations at the National University of Singapore and the London School of Economics, before becoming a full-time travel writer. As a professor, he held visiting academic positions and was involved with think tanks in Europe, Asia, the USA and Africa, and was a senior policy adviser to the Sri Lankan government. He now divides his time between the family home in North Wales and travel in Asia, and continues to spend several months of the year in Sri Lanka.