I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both?

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.