The late great Sunil Perera, popular Sri Lankan singer and satirist, lamented that people should be clamouring to come to our beautiful island. But with each passing decade more of us find more reasons to escape. Today, the queues at the passport offices snake around the block as many Sri Lankans seek to escape the recent turmoil.
Most Sri Lankans are stuck in slow-moving queues of one form or another, scanning the horizon for the next tsunami, hoping their heads will stay above water.
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