Roar Media Archive - Everyday Sri Lanka

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Femme Fatales: Spirits Believed To Haunt Our Island

You will often find that in popular culture (movies for example) frightening female characters are the favourite choice to scare the living daylights out…

Bringing Back The Tea House

Brought to you by Lipton Tea Room Tea, for generations, has been the soul of the Sri Lankan way of living. A gesture of…

Colombo’s Oldest Structures

You’ve probably passed by some of them yourself – without realising their significance.

Colombo’s Oldest (And Probably Most Haunted) Locations

When the Portuguese found Sri Lanka in 1505, they made a deal with the king of Kotte to use the coastline for trading, and…

The Rise Of The Viral Video: How Sri Lanka Is Catching On

Video has come to be the heart of the social digital landscape, and this trend is here to stay. According to Cisco, by 2017,…

Christmas In Sri Lanka: A Collaborative Photo Story

It may be December, but outside the weather is warm, and sunny – come afternoon, it can even get hot, humid, sweltering. Hardly what…

The Sri Lankan Obstacle Course To Matrimony

According to ancient Romans, there are five basic stages in an individual’s life between birth and death: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, middle age and senescence….

They Called This Island ‘Home’

Sri Lanka has been no secret for some of the world’s most influential figures, who have come to love and be inspired by the…

The Sri Lankan Malays: Portraits Of A Minority

The Sri Lankan Malays, known to most Sri Lankans as “Ja-minissu” or the Javanese people, are a small Muslim community descended from Indonesian political…

The Hidden Stationery Shops Of Pettah

Pettah is a world unto its own. It is a place where, if you know where to look, one can find anything and everything….

Nandani The Dog Whisperer

Saving Sri Lanka’s Street Pooches

When we say that man and dog have co-existed for time out of mind, we aren’t just throwing the expression around ‒ there is…

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