Culture, welfare and politics clash over Sri Lanka’s long-delayed animal welfare law

KANDY, Sri Lanka – The famous Kandy Esala Perahera procession is one of Sri Lanka’s most vibrant religious-cultural celebrations, which transforms the hill capital into a spectacle of color, music, dance and caparisoned elephants to honor the tooth relic of the Buddha.

But as the country prepared for this year’s Esala Perahera, which started on […]