Thanu Yakupitiyage is a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, gaining a masters in communications/media studies. She is a member of Lanka Solidarity, a multiethnic group conducting advocacy and outreach activities that promote lasting peace, reconciliation and political approaches to problems in Sri Lanka and its diasporas.
There are many reasons to visit Sri Lanka, but none of them include it being a hyped-up version of a country free from strife.