Reasoning with Mustapha

Sewwandi grew up during Sri Lanka's civil war — a childhood where armed checkpoints and searched school bags were simply part of getting to school. In this conversation, she and Mustapha talk about what it means to survive upheaval, hold onto faith through it, and carry an identity shaped by more than one world. 

This is a conversation about resilience without turning it into spectacle — about the quiet, everyday ways faith and identity get built under pressure, and what carries forward long after the circumstances change.