Thursday 3 March marks World Wildlife Day, the most important global annual event dedicated to wildlife. First instituted in 2013 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), World Wildlife Day serves as an occasion to celebrate and raise awareness of…
Stories at Sunset
A haven and showcase for Sri Lankan English literature Sri Lankan literature, especially in English, is exciting but often underrated and overlooked in favour of more international writing. The community of Sri Lankan English language writers and literature enthusiasts is…
Amid the villus: A powerful story of Sri Lanka’s internally displaced
While our three-decade-long civil war can feel like something of a distant memory, the effects of that war can still be keenly felt by many to this day – one group who still directly suffers from the impact of the…
Celebrating the Sri Lankan wedding: Wedding Week 2022 takes off
Wedding Week 2022 takes off The wedding industry took an incredibly harsh beating in the pandemic. The first lockdown saw a complete embargo on weddings, and then once weddings were allowed, they were severely restricted. Even before the pandemic, planning…
Mindful Menstruation: Driving a social paradigm shift
Period poverty is a very real thing, not because of our economic crisis, but because of a much more deep-seated social bias coupled with economic insensitivity. Yes, with sanitary napkins and other feminine hygiene products deemed luxury items and subject…
Mapping Slave Island’s journey with gentrification through the story of the De Soysa Building
Mapping Slave Island’s journey with gentrification through the story of the De Soysa Building Gentrification, modernisation, and urban development tend to be quite heavily intertwined, and with regard to neighbourhoods and areas of rich histories, these topics often go hand…
When CSI and computers collide
A chat on forensic computing with Ranul Thantilage In this ever-changing world in which we live, the way we commit crimes and leave behind trails of evidence is also ever-changing. We’ve all heard about cybercrimes; it’s fairly self-explanatory – a…
Green Conscious, Earth Sensitive: CFW is back with its newest season
HSBC Colombo Fashion Week (CFW) is back with its first season for 2022. Taking place from 24 to 26 February at the Shangri-La Colombo, this season centres on the theme “Green Conscious, Earth Sensitive”. The newest iteration of the sustainably…
Coconut Miracle: celebrating the bountiful Sri Lankan coconut
Sri Lanka is truly a land of island bounty, and yes, there is a pun intended there, because chief among our island bounty is the humble coconut. As Sri Lankans, we tend to use coconut for, well, everything we can.…
A celebration of Sri Lanka’s wedding industry
Brides of Sri Lanka announces Wedding Week 2022 The Sri Lankan wedding is a grand affair (99% of the time anyway), and wanting to get that special day, or days, just right can be the stuff of nightmares for many…
