Week-10-2026

Sri Lanka’s Telugu community resents being boxed as the ‘Ahikuntakas’ or gypsies. Most Sri Lankans overlook the diversity within the community, and push them away as social outcasts. To secure a better future, the youth are embracing Sinhalese culture and Christianity.

After the US torpedoed the Dena, Sri Lanka had to decide on letting the Bushehr dock. Amid a whirlpool of competing considerations, Sri Lanka took nearly two days to grant the ship entry. The commercial fallout was contained, but sans an investigation Sri Lanka’s maritime reputation may suffer.

“No one cares” about opera and ballet anymore, pronounced Chalamet, that adonis of our time. In Colombo at least, the cosmos strikes back: writers, catch the Gratien Trust’s Creativity in Writing lecture this evening,