Gyms have stopped feeling like training spaces and started feeling like performance stages.And I don’t think it happened all at once. It happened slowly. A camera here. A tripod there. A few workout clips online. Then suddenly, what used to be a place where people quietly worked on themselves became a place where many now feel like they’re constantly being watched.

There’s a particular kind of silence that falls in a Colombo room when someone walks in wearing a recognizable aesthetic or logo. It’s not admiration. It’s a quiet calculation. A mental tally of price, origin, and perceived status. For years, this has been the currency of luxury in Sri Lanka: the louder the monogram or print, the more respect it commanded. We’ve built an entire fashion culture on the idea that value is something you can read from

A powerful convergence of art, education, and social impact is set to take centre stage in Sri Lanka with Merak 2026, a national initiative spearheaded by The Tree House International. Bringing together artists, universities, international organisations, and community groups, the project is redefining how creative collaboration can drive awareness and inclusion for autism.

Tucked into the ever-busy food stretch of Thimbirigasyaya, Delicious Café feels less like a trendy new opening and more like the kind of place you somehow feel you’ve known forever. In a street lined with endless dining options, this cozy café stands out not because it tries too hard, but because it quietly does the simple things right—warm hospitality, familiar flavours, and food that tastes like it was made with genuine love.

Seven of us set off to Trincomalee, on the east coast of Sri Lanka facing the Indian Ocean. There are a number of targets for me beyond the team’s swimming, walking, eating and chilling list. There is lots of colourful, and some dark, history in this town.

Have you ever walked into a house that felt more like a space than a home? Have you ever reminisced about the best year of your life and wondered why everything seemed to come together then, but now things are falling apart? From a Feng Shui perspective, this could be due to afflictions related to the Time Period-based Feng Shui.

I’ve wanted to do this Buzz with Danu for a very long time, and speaking to him over the phone made me realise just how passionate he is about music, how much love he has for the people who supported and enjoyed his songs, and most importantly, how grounded and simple he truly is.

We set off from The Rocks to visit New Town, Sydney, about a twenty minute taxi drive away. It is not a new town at all. In fact, it dates back to Aboriginal occupation, then convict estates, and eventually became one of the oldest suburbs in the mid-1850s as Sydney expanded.

The Monday following the second Sunday of May is characterized by a specific kind of quiet. The digital sirens have ceased, the floral arrangements are beginning their inevitable descent into wilted brown edges, and the collective Social Hangover sets in. We have emerged from forty-eight hours of high-stakes, high-contrast digital theater.

Fashion loves to sell the fantasy of originality, but its most enduring silhouettes come from the world’s oldest uniforms — garments built not for aesthetics, but for authority. Priestly robes, military attire, and colonial‑era uniforms continue to reoccur on the runway because they were designed with a clarity fashion still envies: to signal power, hierarchy, and belonging.