The Indian Government announces plans for a census to be held next year despite weeks of protests over a citizenship law that critics say is anti-Muslim.
The new citizenship law excludes refugees from Sri Lanka, leaving nearly 100,000 Tamils living in India ineligible for citizenship.
As Sri Lanka takes firm but slow steps towards ethnic and national reconciliation, there's a local effort underway in Australia. "Many were sent by the British as indentured labourers on Sri Lankan tea plantations, and hoped for a better life in India when they came here during the war," he said. Thousands of people were killed in Sri Lanka's civil war, which ended in May 2009 after nearly three decades.
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