Chamanthie Sinhalage-Fonseka

Guest writer

Chamanthie Sinhalage-Fonseka is a first generation Kiwi-Sri Lankan. She lives and works in central Wellington and heads PR, advertising and marketing for a boutique firm that specialises in urban communications.

The Sunday Essay: Out of zone – growing up Kiwi-Asian in the early 2000s

The Sunday Essay: Out of zone

We grew up keenly aware that our families moved to New Zealand to give us better futures, and that meant pursuing medicine or engineering. But some of us had different ideas.

By Chamanthie Sinhalage-Fonseka | 28th November, 2021

A Sri Lankan woman holds a photograph of a lost loved one in Colombo on Monday. Photo: LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)

From Christchurch to Colombo

A year ago Chamanthie Sinhalage was in Sri Lanka for her wedding. Today, she is coming to terms with a horrific terrorist attack in her birth country, just a few weeks after the atrocity in Christchurch.

By Chamanthie Sinhalage-Fonseka | 24th April, 2019