“Japanese Buddhist ADB chief would proudly show me the pirith nool tied round his wrist by the monks in Kandy” PB (Jayasundera) and I next went...
Dealing with Ministers, even good Ministers is not trouble free. Issues sometimes get confounded due to the differences in the points of departure and overall outlook...
A few days ago, while walking through the Bandaranaike Museum at the BMICH, I paused before a modest but telling artifact: a briefcase labelled “Minister of...
Financial Performance The Sampath Group achieved its highest financial performance in its history, recording a PBT of Rs 53.0 Bn and a PAT of Rs 32.6...
Dr. Raja de Silva (Raja Aiya) is no more. He was a favourite cousin of mine and one of the most charming persons I knew. His...
Bibiii…! That was Prime Minister Modi, exclaiming to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, this week, just as the microphones...
LESSONS FROM MY CAREER: SYNTHESISING MANAGEMENT THEORY WITH PRACTICE – PART 32 Previous episodes In the previous episodes, I described the many challenges I faced after...
Sri Lanka’s rapid march toward digital government is often celebrated as a long-overdue modernization of public service delivery. Online platforms for welfare benefits, pensions, healthcare, banking,...
Train Street started life as a razor-thin alley with a train rushing through it. Now, it’s swarmed with Instagrammable cafes and tourists who can’t stay away,...
After nearly two decades of on-and-off negotiations that began in 2007, India and the European Union formally finally concluded a comprehensive free trade agreement on 27...