Week-31-2026

In the next few months Metro buses will go cashless, break out into the provinces, and become electric. After years of plans, not only are buses running, the authorities are planning to sign-up private players too.

The narcotics division at the government’s forensics lab is struggling. Drug wars under Wickremesinghe and now Dissanayake led to drug samples doubling in four years. The lab’s over six months late to test 25,000 drug samples so a third of the prison population is stuck in remand, awaiting bail.

A tribute film week with our #2 Cannes entrant The Forsaken Land this evening. Karunasiri Wijesinghe sketches four decades of seeing the wood for the trees at Barefoot. Few peer deeper into Lanka’s eyes