She was the darling of the gossip columnists, her openness about her personal life sparking many a feeding frenzy. "I remember Shah Rukh calling me and saying 'Pooja, you're on 11 magazine covers. What are you doing? It's a bit ridiculous.’ I said, 'I'm not doing anything, I'm just speaking my mind'." She was the darling of the gossip columnists, her openness about her personal life sparking many a feeding frenzy. "I remember Shah Rukh calling me and saying 'Pooja, you're on 11 magazine covers.

Relaxing with a cappuccino at Baristas, Horton Place, concert pianist Rohan De Silva is musing on music in general, and on Western classical music in particular – and the future of Western classical music in Sri Lanka. That future looks very promising, says the New York-based musician, who was in town recently on a two-week spring break, between giving concerts in the US and teaching at the Juilliard School, the prestigious performing arts academy in New York City. In fact, in a sense, the future of Western classical in Sri Lanka lies just around the corner, literally – across the road from the top of Horton Place.