Dressing up a confident woman
Bold designs on black: This slit dress created during Twinkle’s time studying in India was inspired by red carpet looks that celebrities and role models she looked upto wore while adding elements that made it her own. Pix by Sameera Weerasekera “The inspiration for my dresses is all about how I like to express [...]
No longer imposters on the world stage
Involved with the Sri Lanka debating team as debater, coach and administrator since 2010, Sanjit Dias looks back on the team’s long road to success as Sri Lanka made history by becaming runners up at this year’s virtual World Schools Debating Championship An imposter. That’s what I felt like, watching the advanced rounds of the [...]
Mirror
Farewell Internet Explorer! Microsoft announces end of support for the 25-year-old web browser in 2021
Internet Explorer has been pronounced dead.Microsoft announced the 25-year-old browser will disappear from the web on August 17, 2021. The tech giant shared the news in a blog post, stating the Microsoft Teams web app will no longer support Internet Explorer 11, the latest version, beginning November 30, 2020. The announcement has been a long [...]
Concrete Angels: Creating a safer environment for all children
In a bid to create a safer environment for children, young Shiandra Gooneratne (21), initiated her Non-Profit Organization, ‘Concrete Angels’ which aims to create awareness on the issue surrounding child sexual exploitation. “Due to the seriousness as well as the extremity of this challenging issue, realistically, it would be quite difficult to completely eradicate it, [...]
TV Times
Cafe Kai :A quaint little corner
Hilton’s new Café Kai is that place where guest could just relax over a hot cuppa or a fresh juice and a salmon bagel or an oven fresh fruity Danish. Café Kai offers breakfast, an all-day dining menu and a grab ‘n’ go range. The all-time favourite Eggs Benedict with smoked salmon, the whole wheat [...]
Hashen wins ‘Sirasa Voice Teens’
The Grand Finale of the ‘Sirasa Voice Teens’, the popular reality programme, was held on Sunday, 9th August 2020 at the Stein Studios Rathmalana. Eight finalists Hashen Dulanjana, Shemil Clinson, Amelia Wijesuriya, Adithya Weliwatta, Hesara Bandara, Madhuvy Vaithalingam, Ishitha Premnath and Erandi Heshani, who contested in the Grand Finale where talented contestant Hashen Dulanjana grabbed [...]
Rakuten Viber launches new tools to fight spam on the platform
Rakuten Viber, one of the world’s leading apps for free and easy communication, announces the launch of several tools to fight spam and ensure user privacy, as well as an option to search for other users by name. The new search capability will be protected with extra privacy measures in accordance with Viber’s strict commitment [...]
Star studded ‘Musical Telethon’ comes alive
The final information of Sri Lanka’s first ever ‘Musical Telethon’ by ‘Arise Sri Lanka’ in aid of the frontline health workers, who are relentlessly battling to contain Covid 19, was presented to the media at the Galadari Hotel last week. ‘Arise Sri Lanka’, the latest project to boost the Covid 19 battle team, will present [...]
‘Dhawala Bheeshana’ back in Colombo
Veteran playwright and award winning filmmaker Dharmasiri Bandaranayake’s ‘Dhawala Bheeshana’, the Sinhalese translation of the play “Men without Shadows” by French playwright Jean-Paul Sartre will be staged at 3.30 pm and 6.30 pm August 23 at Elphinston theatre, Maradana. The play is staged as part of ongoing Preksha Theatre festival, organised to attract theatre lovers back [...]
The first salvo against the pandemic
At a time cinema is still struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, Colombo City Centre and the Scope Cinema have organised a film festival with the latest Sri Lankan films to be screened from September 4 to 8 in Colombo. The Pleasure of Cinema Film Festival with five films that were awaiting release will [...]
Samantha’s service as cinema, arts journalist honoured
All Island Cultural Friendship Foundation recently awarded Lankadeepa Features Editor Samantha Yahampath with Deshamanya honourary title for his three-decade long service to cinema, arts and culture in Sri Lanka. The event was held at the auditorium of the Arangala Ratharama Temple. While bestowing the honourary title, the citation read as ‘for promoting arts and working [...]
‘Kele Handa’ glitters on mini-screen
Popular novel ‘Kele Handa’ written by W. A. Silva in 1933 has been made into cinema on several occasions and it was also named as the first novel to be made to a film in Sri Lanka. Twenty years after the novel was written, the first cinema version was made in 1953 by B. A. [...]
Two plays from Interact Art
Two theatrical productions presented by the theatre production group, ‘Interact Art’ will be staged at the Preksha Drama Festival organized by the Tower Hall Theater Foundation at the Elphinstone Theater in Maradana. Veteran playwright M. Safeer’s ‘Anne Frank’, the Sinhala adaptation of world renowned book ‘Anne Frank’s diary’ will be staged at 3.30pm and 6.30pm [...]