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Life moves pretty fast. Like ‘blink and you miss it’ fast. Between studies, work, social media, and all the endless notifications, ...

8 Tech Books That Transformed My 2025 Reading List

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Instead of scrolling through social media during traffic jams, I decided to make better use of my time this year. Here are eight techni...

RihView: Cops, Coffins, and Caps

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

Rushing “I Do”?: Love, Laugh… and Wait!

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In Sri Lanka, weddings are the ultimate show. The glittering sarees, the ceremonies, the cake structures taller than your little cousin...

How Savyscakes Turned Cake Into Couture

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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

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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...

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

Real Hackers Don’t Wear Hoodies and Type in Green Text

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Remember that kid in your neighbourhood who could ’’fix’’ any computer problem and somehow always knew the WiFi passwords of ev...

The Loneliness Paradox: Surrounded By People, But Still Alon...

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How many times have you typed ’’lol’’ while keeping a straight face? Or hit ’’haha, I’m dying’’ without so much as a ...

Jetwing Wahawa Walauwa: Slow Days in a Heritage Home

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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...

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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

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

Sri Lanka Says No to Toxic Whitening Creams

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What if the ‘golden ticket’ to lighter skin came with a hidden cost? I’m sure all our bathrooms are neatly stocked with various c...

DevOps Isn’t Just for the IT Crowd

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You’re sitting at a tea shop scrolling through job sites, and suddenly every other posting mentions ’’DevOps Engineer - High Sala...

12 Affordable Ways to Romanticize Your Life

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Let’s face it, life can feel like a never-ending to-do list. But what if I told you that you don’t need a fancy vacation or expensi...

RihView: Trash, Scream Therapy & Radioactive Horns

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

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

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

The Art of Paying Attention - And Why It’s More Fun Than Y...

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Have you ever had one of those moments where your friend is halfway through telling you a story and you realise you have absolutely no ...

Brown Boy, Big Dreams

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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...

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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

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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...

How Dogs Are Saving the Sanity of Gen Z and Their Grandparen...

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Between doomscrolling, burnout, and an overwhelming fear of the future, Gen Z is barely holding it together. And on the other side of t...

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

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

Your Digital Study Buddy That Actually Gets It

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Remember those painful study sessions where you’d replay the same YouTube lecture five times, frantically scribbling notes while tryi...

Lanka Comic Con: The Geekiest Weekend of the Year Is Here!

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Calling all superheroes, wizards, Jedi, anime lovers, gamers, and comic book fanatics… Come be yourself! Lanka Comic Con is back, and...

The Great Fit Fallacy and Other Myths That Shape How Men Dre...

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For a species that once wrapped itself in loincloths and called it a day, men have come a long way in fashion. Or have they? In 2025, w...

RihView: Dairy Celebration, Secondhand Embarrassment & Sinki...

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This week served up frothy freedom, secondhand embarrassment, and one very soggy reminder that safety still isn’t a national priority...

The Watchlist Whisperer: My Life With the Walter Boys & Thug...

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Struggling to navigate the ever-expanding world of streaming services and on-demand content? Feeling lost in a sea of options, unsure o...

The Great ‘Soft Life’ Lie

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There was a time when ambition was everything. We glamorised the hustle. We made to-do lists for our to-do lists. We wore “busy” li...

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