When life is a non-stop spiral of deadlines, traffic light geometry, and endless to-do lists, the capital stops being a living, breathi...
There is a particular pleasure in reading someone who can laugh at herself without rushing to tidy up the embarrassment afterwards. In ...
A grandmother gets a call from her grandson: panicked, crying, saying he’s been in an accident and needs money wired immediately. The...
Art history has a way of making complicated journeys look inevitable. Artists are celebrated, movements are named, and works find their...
There is something rather refreshing about walking into a hotel and not being greeted by the usual hotel reception setup. No immediate ...
I was still in primary school when Sri Lanka’s civil war was raging. I wasn’t living at the centre of the conflict, but even from a...
The clothes don’t fit the same way anymore. The weight seems to sit differently. The workouts that used to work don’t seem to work ...
Music, faith and giving will come together on Saturday, 10 October, as Live Love & Give (LLG) presents OVERFLOW – An Evening of Music...
At Hong Kong Fashion Fest, a conversation with Hong Kong Design Centre’s Rainy Chan went beyond fashion, touching on the less glamoro...
Do you know your neighbour’s name? Not the one who parks the white SUV next door. Not the family whose dog barks every evening. Th...
There is a persistent temptation to talk about Asian fashion as though it were a category waiting to be defined: a recognisable aesthet...
There are few things quite as distinctly Sri Lankan as a Big Match. For generations, these school cricket encounters have been about fa...
There is a particular moment in the life of a restaurant when the opening-night excitement has worn off, the first reviews have been wr...
Three tries, one World Title Omar Hazari’s story
When I used to teach social psychology, one of the first things we would unpack was how ordinary people manage to live with terrible co...
We are taught to be afraid of the stranger in the dark. But some of the most important warning signs appear much earlier through a mess...
I have eaten durian for years without ever really knowing anything about it. That sounds ridiculous when you say it out loud, but it is...
Between 2023 and now, loneliness stopped being treated as a personal problem and turned into a market. Not a metaphor, an actual market...
Every nation tells stories about itself. Some do it through museums. Others through history books, national anthems or political speech...
This week’s lineup is a total study in contrasts: a massive, highly anticipated return that devolved into an insufferable, bloated dr...
Ask almost any parent what they worry about, and somewhere on the list, often near the top, sits the same quiet guilt. My child is on a...
There is something magical about a woman who decides to travel alone. Solo travel is not about running away from life; it is about runn...
Open any technology events calendar for July, and you will find a wall of identical-sounding promises. AI transformation. Digital innov...
The hardest walk in any gym isn’t the first one. It’s the one back. It doesn’t happen with excitement or optimism. It happens wit...
This week’s watches couldn’t be more different on paper, a small-town murder comedy and a true-crime documentary about one of the m...
Try something for me. The next time you find yourself waiting, whether for your food to arrive, for a friend who is running late, or fo...
Every day, thousands of Sri Lankan women make what feels like a healthy choice. The problem is, many of those choices aren’t nearly a...
Years of working in the fitness industry have taught me that the heaviest things people carry into a gym are rarely the weights they li...
