COLOMBO, Sri Lanka ¨C In her outstretched palms, 49-year-old Nilanthi Gunasekera holds her family¡¯s last remaining handful of dried fish ¡ª a reminder of Sri Lanka¡¯s worst economic crisis in decades.
She is just one of the millions of Sri Lankans battling a calamitous decline in living standards, as they find themselves forced to skip meals, ration out medicines and turn to firewood in place of cooking gas.
¡°Now fish is out of the reach of our family, and so is meat,¡± Gunasekera said, grasping the shards of fish. ¡°For two weeks we couldn¡¯t afford any meat or fish. This is our last protein.¡±
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