Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

Galle

The latest news and comment on Galle

January 2014

  • A Galle resident walks on the centuries-old flood defence walls, in 2013.

    Cities: back from the brink
    Galle: good intentions melt with the ocean's hypnotic and monetary power

    Sri Lankan restrictions that came into force after the 2004 tsunami have bent to the reality of a poor community that depends on the ocean for its wellbeing and livelihood

July 2008

  • Untitled 1996 by Louise Bourgeois

    A gallery of one's own

    What's the point of a museum of art by women, asks Joanna Moorhead

February 2005

  • Tsunami victims still wait for aid

    Supplies to stricken Sri Lankans are blocked by bungling and corruption.

January 2005

  • 'The sea was half a mile away: empty, calm and dead ...'

    Wonder. Wrenching, yearning wonder. Dreams, and awe, and childhood tales; a longed-for excitement, and a fascination with the different. This - all of this, and a host of added gestures - was all he said he thought of, for all those 90 seconds which brought the three waves: the man who was first to see the monster.
  翻译: