Rubatheesan Sandranthan is a freelance journalist at the Sunday Times in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Over the years, he has reported extensively on post-war humanitarian issues, climate change, the environment, and Indo-Lanka fishing disputes. He was short-listed in 2019 and 2020 for a Young Journalist award, presented by the Thomson Foundation (UK) and the Foreign Correspondents Association. The Editors Guild of Sri Lanka recognized his work, naming him Investigative Journalist of the Year in 2019.