02 Mar 2024

Embarrassingly, it took a YouTube video from Aquaman himself for me to learn that Sri Lanka had been awarded, “recognition as the UN World Restorati

17 Feb 2024

I had the pleasure of sitting down with the fearless and fabulous Shobha De. Her insatiable zest for life is contagious; forget wanting to be like her

08 Apr 2023

Like the rest of the world, I probably have had my fill of the headlines of the trials and tribulations of the dynamics between the two British royal

01 Oct 2022

If your house was burning down, what would you try to take with you as you ran out? For many of us, and I am dating myself here,

11 Jun 2022

In the last 25 years, this small island has repeatedly re-emerged; it has suffered a brutal civil war, devastating tsunami, heinous terrorist attacks,

02 Apr 2022

As I boarded the flight to New York from Sri Lanka in April 2021, I envisioned how my beloved NYC would look after the battering it took due to the pa

03 Apr 2021

As a former New Yorker, it’s practically in my DNA to look for the next hot new table in town. When I lived in NYC, I always wanted to eat at the p

20 Mar 2021

When my son was five years old, a fellow camper said to him that he “wasn’t any colour on the rainbow.” According to his little friend, this mea

27 Feb 2021

Like most of us, it has now been a year since I left Sri Lankan soil. A New Yorker, turned islander, I have lived in this tropical paradise for over 1

19 May 2020

Just over a year ago, those of us in Sri Lanka were under curfew after the tragic Easter terrorist attacks on the paradise island we call home. School

11 May 2019

A lifelong New Yorker, I moved to Sri Lanka in 2008, when it was in the midst of a brutal and seemingly never-ending civil war. I quickly became accus