Two years ago, Sri Lanka was at the heart of a historic crisis. Streets swelled with protesters, burning and looting were rife, and the public was demanding action on corruption and economic mismanagement on a grand scale.
Power cuts lasted for hours each day, inflation was out of control, and in April 2022, the country defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time in its history.
It was merely a matter of time before the government collapsed.
Asia Media Centre manager Graeme Acton was in Colombo in March and reports on the vastly different - but still fragile - situation in Sri Lanka.