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RihView: MJ & Vijay
This week felt like a reminder that influence doesn’t always follow logic. Some things hold their place long after their time has passed. Others mov
RihView: Hot Weather & Easter Attack Debates
This week feels like a loop. The heat is getting harder to ignore, Parliament is revisiting one of the country’s most painful chapters yet again, an
RihView: Fuel Queues & School Extra Curricular Costs
This week’s news had a very familiar Sri Lankan theme: other people make the mess, and somehow we end up standing in line for it. Fuel queues are cr
RihView: Crises and Cricket
This week isn’t about light drama or internet nonsense. It’s about power. The kind that drops bombs and redraws borders. The kind that wears a cri
RihView: Power & Passports
The past week wasn’t about scandals or stats. It was about who gets protected, who gets punished, and who’s expected to swallow it quietly. From a
RihView: On Women, Blame, and Carrying Too Much
This week, I have a lot to say. The kind of week where everything feels connected, but trying to write about all of it would dilute the point. So I’
RihView: Power, Pause, Processing
This week’s RihView isn’t about pretending things are calm. It’s about sitting with the contradictions. The quiet personal reckoning that happen
RihView: Cost, Cartels & Complicated Love
The past week, Sri Lanka proved that even survival here is a luxury purchase, the Navy hauled in another billion-rupee drug bust that feels more famil
RihView: Medals, Mayhem & Missing Jewels
The past week was a showcase of talent, turbulence, and top-tier thievery. Our athletes sprinted past systemic neglect to bring home glory, airplane p
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 duty means, an
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 a UNESCO site
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 blood moon had phot
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 employees turned
RihView: Courtrooms to Hospitals, Standing Together & Fingerprinting
The past week was a reminder that in Sri Lanka, accountability is more performance art than practice. Arrested politicians head straight to hospital b
RihView: Pricey vehicles, love assaults & good news for elephants!
The past week was brought to you by high price tags, questionable priorities, and the occasional glimmer of common sense. We found out buying a car he
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 reminder that we treat
RihView: Gaza Starving, Millionaire Thieves and Saving Our Animals
This week, we’re starting with what should be front-page news every day. Gaza is starving, and the world is still scrolling. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka co
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 with a no-show
RihView: Dairy Celebration, Secondhand Embarrassment & Sinking Boats
This week served up frothy freedom, secondhand embarrassment, and one very soggy reminder that safety still isn’t a national priority. A man in Assa
RihView: Masterchef Sri Lanka, Ali Express and Shah Rukh Khan
This week served up a mix of heat, hype, and a whole lot of heartburn. A globally beloved cooking show finally lands on Lankan soil. Shah Rukh Khan is
RihView: Chaotic Lift Rides, Adult Toddlers, & Princess Diana
A lift ride that turned into a contact sport. A cinema full of adult toddlers. And a birthday tribute to the one royal South Asians will defend like s
RihView: Bad Meds, Trump & Hate
What a week! From Sri Lanka’s scandal-prone elite suddenly discovering the legal system does, in fact, apply to them… To Donald Trump dropping bom
RihView: Ghosting Telcos, Mean Comments & Lucky Seats
From telcos that ghost you mid-bill cycle to Facebook groups where kindness still comes with a trigger warning, it’s been another week of “only in
RihView: Macaws, Rage Currency & Bravery
This past week’s news came with plot twists, parrots, and people showing more spine than most governments. We had a rare macaw stolen (again) from a
RihView: Courtrooms, Catwalks, and Cyclones
This past week served chaos in every flavour: courtrooms, catwalks, and cyclones. We had two ex-ministers actually sentenced without spontaneously dev
RihView: Brit traveller, Confirmation Bias & 3* Experiences
The past week gave us a lot - a British traveller got caught with £1.2 million worth of cannabis; people continued to believe (and forward) absolute
RihView: Wrong Questions, Mother’s Day for Single Dads & Road Accident
The past week gave us a lot - people questioning Cassie like abuse comes with a script, dads getting Mother’s Day shoutouts like fatherhood isn’t
RihView: Zoo Animals, Sperm Races and First Aid
The past week had everything: giraffes arriving in a country that can’t even keep its bears fed, American sperm racing for awareness (because of cou
RihView: Movies, Trash, and Kindness
Some weeks, Sri Lanka feels like a whole series of plot twists that nobody bothered to edit. The past week, between cinema surprises, trash trails, an
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