is a freelance contributor to the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, he focuses on conflict and post-conflict issues, humanitarian disasters and climate change. He contributes to a range of international publications including TIME magazine and is a 2012 co-winner of the Prince Albert/United Nations Global Prize for Climate Change reporting.
Dinesh de Alwis has lived all his life in Ratmalana, a suburb of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo. When he was young, he remembers, he would rush outside every day at 4 p.m., to play with frie...
