By Fareez Farook – Fareez Farook “A lie can imprison a man for years; sometimes, it takes only a single act of humanity to set him free in the eyes of history.” There is something almost cinematic about the way fate writes its most ironic scripts. Seven years ago, Dr. Shafi Shihabdeen stood at the centre of one of the most poisonous public controversies in post-war Sri Lanka. In the emotionally charged aftermath of the 2019 Easter Sunday bombing…
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