The Year That Refused to End

Photo courtesy of DW Sri Lanka did not enter 2026 through celebration. It crossed the threshold quietly, carrying grief. The final days of 2025 did not offer closure but catastrophe. Cyclone Ditwah, the most devastating climate disaster since the 2004 tsunami, swept across the island with a force that felt sudden yet deeply foretold. Floodwaters swallowed towns in the lowlands. In the Central Highlands, long abused in the name of development, the earth itself gave way. More than 1,500 major landslides were recorded within days. Entire villages vanished beneath mud and rock. Roads collapsed, rivers shifted course and families were…

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