Scenes from Colombo days after Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's president:
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IMAGE: An elderly lady sits next to a filled domestic cooking gas cylinder. All photographs: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
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IMAGE: A young lady sits on an empty domestic cooking gas cylinder at a distribution centre.
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IMAGE: Children play on swings near people waiting in a queue to buy domestic cooking gas.
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IMAGE: A vendor sells vegetables to customers at a market in Colombo.
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IMAGE: Price tags on fruits at a Colombo market.
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IMAGE: Security personnel patrol the area near the presidential secretariat.
Photographs curated by Manisha Kotian/Rediff.com
Feature Presentation: Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com
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