Zinara Rathnayake is a reporter covering travel, food and culture. She is based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Guwahati, India. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Bon Appétit, BBC Travel, CNN Travel, The Guardian, Atlas Obscura, Fodor’s, The New Zealand Herald, and Popular Science. Her work won an Award of Excellence at the Communicator Awards in New York in 2020. She holds a bachelors degree from Aquinas University College.
