There is an app on more than 500 million phones around the world that has made people feel genuinely guilty for missing a vocabulary lesson. If you have ever received a notification from a cartoon owl at nine in the evening, giving you a pointed look for skipping your Spanish practice, you already know exactly which app this is.

The British occupation of Colombo created the heyday of Fort. It was a gateway to the British Empire, north, east and west. This area was once a walled fort with sea frontage. In 1870, the British destroyed the walls of the fort, as city and port expansion were key to growth. Today, the port ranks in the top thirty ports worldwide. The Fort, approximately a mile square, is a great walking history opportunity. I do regular walks around Fort. On th

Some lives are lived quietly. And then there are lives like Uncle Mano’s… lived in full volume, rich, layered, and unforgettable. To speak of Uncle Mano is to speak of a man who held many worlds within him. A scholar, a thinker, a man who once walked the path toward priesthood, later stepping into the precision of nuclear engineering in London and then returning home to Sri Lanka, not just to live, but to create.

This International Women’s Day 2026, we move beyond celebration and into documentation. Women Who Did It Anyway is a curated article series featuring women who progressed not because conditions were perfect, but because they chose to move forward anyway.

This week’s Watchlist is basically about perspective - what we choose to see, and what we only understand later. Inside the Manosphere looks at a very current, very online world that’s shaping how young men think today, while Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model takes us back to a show many of us grew up watching… and gently asks, “Why did we think that was okay?” One is unsettling in real time, the other is unsettling in hindsight — an

We love the idea of girls supporting girls. It looks good on Instagram, sounds empowering in captions, and feels like something we should all believe in. But not every female friendship is soft, safe, or supportive. Some are draining. Some are competitive. And some are quietly toxic in ways that are hard to explain but impossible to ignore.

Friday Sari Project founder Mehala Ford is steadily emerging as one of the few independent champions working to secure meaningful international visibility for Sri Lankan craft, often doing so with remarkable personal commitment and, at times, her own financial resources. In a landscape where Sri Lankan makers possess extraordinary heritage skills yet often lack structured overseas representation, Ford’s efforts have become both timely and signifi

Resilience in the Face of Adversity Ms Shyara Seneviratne

This International Women’s Day 2026, we move beyond celebration and into documentation. Women Who Did It Anyway is a curated article series featuring women who progressed not because conditions were perfect, but because they chose to move forward anyway. Across industries, from entrepreneurship to corporate leadership, these women navigated systems, expectations, resistance, and trade-offs. Their stories are not motivational slogans. They are