Mawbima National Newspaper: COVER RACISM
As a result of a 26 year-long war, Sri Lanka - a multi-racial society - is still emotionally scarred. With the aim of changing this situation, Mawbima, one of Sri Lanka's most important national newspapers saw an opportunity on the Sinhala and Tamil New Year - a festival of equal significance to both majority Sinhalese and Tamils -to bring them together by creating a unique and non-traditional execution piece which was in the form of a plate covering that encouraged the habit of sharing amongst the two races and with it helped build unity amongst...