With the distinct and persistent calls of the Asian Koel (Sinhalese: Koha), another calling is gracing Sri Lanka during the month of April. For the first time in the nation’s history, the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society (WNPS) – Youth Wing is spearheading Sri Lanka’s inaugural entry to the City Nature Challenge 2026, a global effort to document urban biodiversity. Marking its 10th anniversary this year, the City Nature Challenge (CNC) was

A long weekend in Sri Lanka usually begins in a group chat. Someone throws out a casual “shall we go somewhere?” and within minutes, it’s no longer casual. There are suggestions. South, Ella, somewhere “not too far.” A villa link appears. Someone insists on leaving at 4 a.m. Nobody wants to wake up at 4 a.m. Everyone agrees anyway. By Thursday, it feels like a plan.

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, and somehow the pattern is familiar. We adjust. We wait. We sit through it. Different headlines, same feeling of things dragging on longer than they should.

“No days off.” It sounds powerful. Motivating. Disciplined. But after years in the fitness industry, I’ve learned that this mindset has quietly damaged more people than it has helped.

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