ABSTRACT
Contemporary Sri Lankan society was forced to examine the disturbing layers of its underbelly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The effects of the pandemic widened inequalities across a plethora of areas, such as health, economy, ethnicity, education, social networks and justice. The pandemic also disturbed established hierarchies, processes and linear social constructs of communication, knowledge dissemination and daily living when adjusting to the ‘new normal’. The pandemic has awakened a new consciousness in the way society questions power, institutions and norms. Sri Lanka may be at the cusp of reimagining its identity, its ‘social- morality’ and the way we live.
