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From Our Own Correspondent: Sri Lanka and India

Sri Lanka and India

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Sri Lanka and India

Personal stories from Charles Haviland in northern Sri Lanka and Hasit Shah in Delhi.

Insights from BBC correspondents around the world, with Owen Bennett Jones. Charles Haviland sees the aftermath of Sri Lanka's war near Mullaitivu; Hasit Shah reflects on the lore of one Delhi home.

Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. This edition is presented by Owen Bennett Jones, and features these stories:

Signs of absence

The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war in 2009 brought pictures of terrible suffering to international news audiences and there may have been far more going on, which the rest of the world simply never saw. But after the Sri Lankan armed forces drove the Tamil Tigers to a final battlefield defeat, how can the country be bound together again?

The BBC's Charles Haviland has recently been on a rare trip to the north of Sri Lanka - precisely the region where the Tiger movement had its last redoubts - and reflects on what he witnessed there. Some sights inspired hope - but more prompted doubts and apprehensions for the future. 

What makes a house a home?

The area of Delhi known as 'Greater Kailash Part One' is pretty well-heeled - a suburb full of spacious houses, gleaming cars and discreet domestic servants. It still has a distinctively Indian feel and look, though. 

On a recent visit to a friend's home there, Hasit Shah heard about the house's unusual history - and why it's finally time for a remodel.

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