University students push barricades toward police during a demonstration against the economic crisis near the parliament building in Colombo on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. Public anger has sparked sustained protests demanding the government resign over its mismanagement of the economic crisis. AFP PHOTO
LONDON: When I ended last month's column hoping that April would not prove to be hapless Sri Lanka's "cruelest month" (in the words T.S. Eliot), I hardly anticipated the current turn of events.