It was a little before 8.30am when the first blast rang out in Colombo; it was to be the first of several devastating suicide bombings targeting churches and hotels across Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday last year (21 April), which eventually claimed 269 lives.
A year later, and the country this year awoke to the sound of church bells, temple chimes and calls to prayer before all fell silent in a moment of national mourning. For a country familiar with adversity, the attacks came as no less of a shock. But through adversity comes resilience.
