Standing there, watching Dhee bring Vari Vari to life in Sri Lanka, I couldn’t help but pause and take it all in. This wasn’t just another music launch. This was personal. This was poetic. This was a full-circle moment wrapped in melody.

It has barely been a fortnight since Blac Bagatalle opened their second outlet at No. 32 Bagatalle Road, Colombo 03. The ride has not been the smoothest, but things are taking shape, and the restaurant is now ready to welcome its customers.

Indian hospitality brand, Yazu, marked its first international expansion of the brand with the launch of Yazu at the Beach at Radisson Blu Resort in Galle last week.

This week’s Watchlist is all about the shiny and new, or at least, things that look new until you look a little closer. We’re heading to Rome for a change of scenery that feels suspiciously familiar featuring the marketing maven who seems to have mastered every language except the one where she learns from her mistakes, and checking in on a matchmaker who finally has to face her own reflection. Whether it’s an American in Italy or a Song-Covey si

Think about the last time a password caused you a problem. You forgot it. You reset it. You chose something simple because the complicated ones are impossible to remember. Or worse, you used the same password for everything, hoping for the best.

We have all been there. You’re sitting on the sofa, staring at a paragraph you’ve already read three times. Your mind is wandering to what’s for dinner, the laundry, or literally anything other than the prose in front of you. Yet, you push on. You feel a sense of duty - a literary guilt - to finish what you started.

We’re all creatures of habit, even when we don’t mean to be. We fold away our nicest clothes, keep our favorite perfume for special days, and tell ourselves that someday when the right moment comes we’ll finally use them. It feels harmless. Maybe even responsible. But over time, that habit begins to shape how we experience our lives.

There is a specific, fleeting window of time in Colombo where the city seems to hold its breath. It happens just as the sun begins its slow descent into the Indian Ocean, turning the sky into a mix of liquid gold and deep indigo. While the Tiki Bar at Shangri-La Colombo has always been one of the best spots for this view, its latest update feels less like a simple menu change and more like a real cultural homecoming.

In the sciences of Vaastu and Feng Shui, each compass direction is believed to represent an important aspiration in our lives. The sectors associated with career, knowledge, literary skills, and writing correspond to the North and Northeast directions.

I am particularly reminded at this time of the year of 11,500 Australians and New Zealanders who died on the battlefields of Gallipoli, Turkey, in 1915. It is at this time, 25 th April, that many families remember most their lost family members from the two World Wars. It is ANZAC Day, remembrance day for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. Sad to think how many wars are going on in the world today. It is as though we have not learnt anyth