The Examiner

Colombo is often dead, but for once it's not a bad thing. For the dead are out tonight, at over a dozen Halloween parties. Kiku’s and Love Bar’s seem promising. There’

The government’s digital ID project is shrouded in secrecy and controversy. With huge benefits to the public on one hand and risks to privacy and security on the other, can the government win trust for digital governance?

Dhammika Perera’s buying spree on the stock exchange, coupled with his supermarket entry plans, signal investor confidence in consumer purchasing power. But concerns remain on Perera’s concentration of market and lobbying power.

This evening, a Bawa Trust talk on living joyfully among urban intensity, amid a climate crisis. Tomorrow a workshop by the same maestro, titled A Parliament of Objects. Also this evening, a soireé from Stages,

The Government will present its first full-cycle budget early next month. Promises are cheap but delivery is much harder. As implementation is so difficult and takes so long, getting policy right becomes even more imperative.

System migration led to the government cloud’s failure last week. As it went offline, services like birth certificate issuance and police clearance also came to a halt, exposing deep vulnerabilities in the state’s push for a digital-first future.

There are few things sexier in the ‘discourse’ than migration and ecological decline, the subject of Chundamani Clowes’ exhibition today onwards at Saskia’s. While you’re out this weekend, catch Ayu, a Sinhalese film