Baby boxes, or infant receiving counters, have been pretty successful in many countries. But the question is: would they really facilitate better adoption mechanisms in Sri Lanka? The NCPA certainly thinks so. #srilanka #lka #babyboxes
For over 30 years, Sri Lanka’s Community Mediation Boards have helped communities resolve minor disputes and maintain harmony. Although people from all walks of life come to seek help, only a quarter of all mediators are women. Why is this an alarming statistic, and how can we ensure higher female representation in mediation? #EmbraceEquity
In 2017, a photo of a Humphead Wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus) killed by spearfishing at the Unawatuna Beach stirred widespread attention on social media. This fish is listed as endangered under the Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which sets the conservation status of species. However, a fish like Humphead Wrasse, with a bump on ...
This #InternationalWomensDay, we celebrate the women who guide, empower and inspire. Here’s a compilation of all the video submissions we received. #lka #SriLanka #IWD23
Saama, the little girl giant, says: “All girls can be giants if raised and supported to be so.” Saama stands out, which is not a surprise considering she’s a giant (she’s also the tallest female puppet in Sri Lanka). But apart from her height, and the fact that there’s a person controlling her massive papier mache head and long hands, ...
Today, Sri Lanka’s banks are in a race to evolve with a fast-changing global industry, where customer-focused innovation and refinement is paramount. Here’s what that could mean for you, the customer.
Entrepreneur and mother of three, Seetha Damayanthi juggles being the sole provider and caretaker of her family. With Sri Lanka’s rising cost of living, the challenges faced by women like Seetha have only increased. Women Headed Households make up over 25% of Sri Lanka’s population, so why aren’t they given more support?
Yes, it’s that time of the year again – when hearts, roses, chocolates, and various shades of pink catch your eye wherever you go, and every song on the radio seems to sing of romance. Valentine’s Day has become highly commercialised over the years and influenced Sri Lankans to join the celebrations. The fear of missing out and social media ...
Sri Lanka has enough problems as it is, and cryptocurrency as legal tender? No, thank you. Watch the video to find out why. #lka #SriLanka #Bitcoin #cyptocurrency
“I was never interested in music until I saw ‘Maawathe Api’ on the television as a child,” Samantha Fernando told us. He reminisced, his fingers strolling over the keyboard, of his childhood and the early 1990 television programme that provided a televised platform to street musicians and performance artists. “After that I went and bought a tambourine for ten rupees, ...
Rani* was born with bow legs, a condition which led her to experience multiple surgeries since early childhood. For Geetha*, an unexpected incident rendered her with both mental and physical disabilities at an early age. They both have one thing in common, though – their love for education. We sat down with children with disabilities, both from the North and ...
On what started out as a regular Tuesday, Roshan and his colleagues find out that ‘Zavian-22’ has entered the country, setting in motion a series of unexpected events. So what happens next? Here’s why ‘breaking news’ isn’t always what you may expect.
Nilanthi Pushpakumari (36) is a parking attendant working in Colombo. “I don’t have a house of my own, so I still live with my parents in Grandpass, while taking care of them. My mother is very old, and a cancer patient so I bring this one — he is still nine months old — to work with me,” she said. ...
PET Bottle Christmas Tree, the Christmas tree constructed using only plastic bottles is on display at the Wellawatte beach, for the fourth consecutive year. Standing 12 feet tall, the Christmas tree was made using over 1500 polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, all of which had been collected from the beach. The Pearl Protectors, together with members of the Rotaract Club of ...
A mainstay at Liberty Plaza for the past 18 years, Rohan’s Bookstore is instantly recognisable from the display of books piled from floor to ceiling at the entrance to the shop, almost impossible to ignore. “I order a variety of publications,” says owner Rohan Kannangara (57), “We are always updating our collections — if a new book comes out, people ...
Back in 2005, it was hard to imagine Sri Lanka as a place for groundbreaking technological innovation. Today, 17 years later, WSO2 has grown to become a $500 million company that has made Sri Lanka the world’s go-to open-source provider for API management, integration, and customer identity and access management. Here’s the story of how they got there.
In 1544, in the Jaffna Kingdom, Cankili the First killed 700 Catholic converts. The slaughtered men, women and children would come to be known as the Mannar Martyrs, and the incident has now inspired the 2022 trilingual movie ‘Praana’, featuring the late Darshan Dharmaraj. Almost 500 years later, the discovery of a mass grave in Mannar revitalised the conversations around ...
