evidence: While I had been watching what was happening in Sri Lanka regularly, April 1 was the day that signalled my life would come to be dominated by the Aragalaya, the name that was attributed to the protest wave taking place thousands of miles away. [...] "The difference between reporting the war and reporting the Aragalaya, has been that with the war, there was always the chance to break away from the story, even for a short time, with the protests it has been relentless, everywhere, all the time. There was absolutely no chance of a break," Buddhika Weerasinghe, a veteran photographer said.