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  By Anbarasan Ethirajan BBC News, Colombo IMAGE SOURCE, GETTY IMAGES Image caption, Sri Lanka is in the midst of a deep and unprecedented economic crisis During the ongoing anti-government protests in Sri Lanka, protesters shouted slogans targeting former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his family. But they also raised chants against India. Slogans like - "Don't sell the country to India and the US"; "India: Sri Lanka is not another state"; and "India don't exploit Sri Lanka's situation" - could be widely heard during the demonstrations. But while anti-Indian sentiments like these still persist, how Sri Lankans view India might be changing as the country grapples with political and economic chaos. Sri Lanka is in the midst of a deep and unprecedented economic crisis that has sparked massive protests, and forced its president to quit after fleeing the country. Over the years, Sri Lanka has built up a huge amount of debt - to the point that it

By Iqbal Athas and Hannah Ritchie, CNN  Updated 0414 GMT (1214 HKT) July 13, 2022 From CNN News  (CNN) Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left the country, according to a high ranking security official, shortly before he was due to formally step down. Rajapaksa and his wife flew to Malé, in the Maldives, on an AN32 troop transport plane from the Sri Lanka Air Force, the official said. Local air traffic control refused the plane's request to land until an intervention by the Speaker of Maldivian Parliament Majlis and former President, Mohamed Nasheed, according to the official. CNN has reached out to Nasheed for comment. The embattled Rajapaksa was previously blocked from departing  Sri Lanka  at least twice on Monday, after refusing to join a public immigration queue at the Bandaranaike International Airport, a high-ranking military source told CNN. Aides for Rajapaksa arrived at the airport in Colombo on Monday with 15 passports belonging to the president and members