by Tyron Devotta
I have never given an opinion on food before, as a serious review (books I have done). However I write this because the Walawwa Kade’s Batti Kottu is worth some serious ...
By Zander Combe
Tourism has more to do with community engagement than what one may imagine. At its roots tourism is all about foreigners meeting locals and learning about each other. ...
By Tyron Devotta
Manike Mage Hithe by Yohani de Silva is going viral in pandemic proportions. It is a quaint catchy song which took on a surprisingly high hit rate in Sri Lanka before it spread like ...
by Tim Jacobson
To some Sri Lanka is a small island sitting in the ocean at the south of the Indian subcontinent with the expectation that it and its large neighbour would be fairly similar. That is ...
“Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul” - Don McLean
The pandemic is a good time to paint, like Van ...
At 106 years of age, Havelocks is one of Colombo’s older rugby clubs, and has over the years earned itself quite a reputation for the field game. But this last year has taken its toll on the ...
During the pandemic Joanna Jayawardena found a silver lining in the dark cloud. She is a maker of gifts, and the success to her story is the detail that goes into personalising the gift boxes she ...
Ajit Gunewardene is the Founder/Chairman of Bluestone Capital Ltd. Bluestone is a Private Equity investment company investing in both startups and mature businesses. Among its investments ...
By Druvinka Samuel
Uncertainty has been an overriding theme of this year, disrupting major plans be it personal, professional, educational or otherwise. And with the year about to come to a close ...
By Cecil Roche
When online shopping took off in the early 1990s, it changed the entire landscape of the retail industry. Retailers had to reposition their products to compete in a global market ...
The COVID-19 lockdown created a great disruption in the market, making significant changes in the way we work and live. While the negatives of this far outweigh the positives, we have little choice ...
Visiting the land of my ancestors had always been one of my dreams since my school days. Finally, in April 2018, I got the opportunity to tick that off my bucket list after an unforgettable trip to ...
There seems to be a connection between the current pandemic and the 4th Industrial Revolution. According to the World Economic Forum, 4IR represents a fundamental change in the way we live, work ...
By Druvinka Samuel
The acute awareness of global imbalances that has closely trailed behind the outbreak of COVID-19 has deconstructed any semblance of...
By Tyron Devotta
In this relentless battle against COVID-19, there are two types of fighters; one that is waiting for the vaccine and the other that is...
Sahana Nandakumar writes from Sydney“There needs to be more consideration for international students who have contributed a significant amount to the...
“If you teach a child art properly, you are teaching the child to get out of the box, to move out of its set parameters, and to live dangerously.” She...
by Nadeesha Perera
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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicoloured Dreamcoat” directed by Jehan...
It was a fiasco when the Ministry of Trade attempted to get traders to transport their vegetables in plastic crates. The idea in itself is not a bad...
By Tyron Devotta
There is a reason the Paravas blend so well into any country which they choose to live in, and that’s because they have mostly been...
By Tyron Devotta
The June 2021 page of the Port City Colombo calendar showcases two big cats, the Yapahuwa lion (Sri Lanka) on the page left and the...