RihView: Hashtags, Handcuffs, and Hacks

This week’s news was one long sigh. We watched corporations turn mental health into a PR stunt, a police officer forget what the word...

At Global Travel Meet, Malaysia Reintroduces Itself to the W...

The chatter of a hundred languages rose through the halls of Kuala Lumpur’s World Trade Centre. Somewhere between the aroma of Malays...

A World of Flavours, Now at Your Table From Keells

A World of Flavours, Now at Your Table From Keells

The Tuition Industrial Complex

The Tuition Industrial Complex

Disruptors: Raffealla Fernando

I met Raffealla Fernando at a coffee shop, voice recorder perched between us, and within minutes, I understood why she had to be the on...

RihView: Floods, Fees, and Foolish Pride

This week’s news came with plenty of water, way too many zeros, and just enough ego to make you shake your head. From citizens rising...

Blooming Breakfast Resto Bar & Café: A Round-the-Clock Feas...

Colombo’s dining scene is no stranger to trends - cafés that bloom and fade, bars that pop up and vanish, menus that promise the wor...

Birds of a Feather: Creativity Beyond Age

At 50, Push Nanayakkara picked up her first paintbrush. Not in an art class, not as part of a childhood passion finally rekindled, but ...

Home-Cooked with Love: My Sister’s Kitchen Brings Jaffna F...

There’s a certain kind of magic that happens around a dining table. Plates fill up, laughter spills over, and every dish seems to car...

RihView: Violence, Vanity, Vindaloo

The past week was one big irony reel. A man who once said gun deaths were “worth it” met that fate himself, a local tourist decided...

Layers of Love: The Story Behind Cuppacreme

For Aaliyah Mansoor, baking is both art and memory. It began with the fascination of watching her aunt frost a cake, and grew into a pa...

Why Sri Lanka Still Fumbles Sex Ed: And What That’s Doing ...

It’s not often that a piece of latex makes national headlines. But Sri Lanka is once again debating whether condom use belongs in cla...

RihView: Moons, Ministries, and Malware

This week gave us celestial drama, ministry squabbles, and a reminder that your phone might be the easiest pickpocket in town. The bloo...

The Fake News Fast Lane: Why We Keep Falling for AI Lies

It began with a single photo. A doctored image of Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala surfaced online last week, shared with capti...

RihView: Cops, Coffins, and Caps

The past week was a masterclass in disgrace. A police constable fell harder than his own institution’s credibility, funeral parlour e...

Ne-Yo Live in Colombo on December 28

Colombo just got its end-of-year soundtrack. On December 28, 2025, Grammy-winning R&B star Ne-Yo will bring his biggest hits to the Sug...

How Savyscakes Turned Cake Into Couture

The wafer paper was delicate, almost too delicate. One wrong brushstroke and it would tear, crumple, or worse, disintegrate into sugar ...

The Instagram Therapy Trap: The Pop Psychology Problem

You don’t need to scroll far to see it. Toxic, triggered, gaslighting, boundaries; the vocabulary of psychology is everywhere, from c...

RihView: Courtrooms to Hospitals, Standing Together & Finger...

The past week was a reminder that in Sri Lanka, accountability is more performance art than practice. Arrested politicians head straigh...

Jetwing Wahawa Walauwa: Slow Days in a Heritage Home

When you turn off the main road in Rambukkana and slip into the shade of a coconut plantation, the pace of life shifts without you even...

RihView: Pricey vehicles, love assaults & good news for elep...

The past week was brought to you by high price tags, questionable priorities, and the occasional glimmer of common sense. We found out ...

The Watchlist Whisperer: Wednesday & The Hunting Wives

This week on The Watchlist Whisperer, we’ve got two very different warnings: never underestimate a girl with a typewriter stare, and ...

RihView: Trash, Scream Therapy & Radioactive Horns

This week was a strange cocktail of mess and meaning. From radioactive rhino horns and lakefront scream sessions to yet another reminde...

Bistro Des Marées: Lunch, Refreshed

Cinnamon Life’s bistro leans into lighter lunches, comfort dishes, and less decision fatigue. For a while, Bistro Des Marées felt l...

RihView: Gaza Starving, Millionaire Thieves and Saving Our A...

This week, we’re starting with what should be front-page news every day. Gaza is starving, and the world is still scrolling. Meanwhil...

Brown Boy, Big Dreams

When Grammy-winner Ne-Yo lands in Colombo this December, it won’t just be another celebrity concert. It will be the launchpad of Brow...

Escaping Into the Scroll: When Social Media Becomes Our Safe...

There’s a point in the evening, usually somewhere between finishing dinner and pretending we’ll go to bed early, where the phone ma...

RihView: Coldplay, SRK & Toxic Beauty

This week on RihView: A tech CEO gets a little too cosy at a Coldplay concert and ends up jobless. Shah Rukh Khan crushes Lankan hearts...

Inside Sri Lanka’s First All-Women Hotel: Amba Yaalu, Kand...

When Amba Yaalu Kandalama first made headlines as Sri Lanka’s first hotel fully managed and staffed by women, the internet did what i...