Blog Archives

Two admirable Women of Nerve Source:Island Leelananda de Silva lent me the copy of Nerve he had been gift-posted by one of the book’s authors with the inscription ‘To Leelananda and Rukmal: two people who have known me from the time I was a child! For your love and support – Thank you!’ signed Indira, dated Sept 2021. Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera authored this book titled Nerve – lessons on leadership from two women who went first published by ECW Press, Toronto, in 2021. It carries a Foreword of three pages by The Right Hon Kim Campbell, 19th Prime Minister of Canada. (Avril Phaedra Douglas ‘Kim’ Campbell QC, was PM from June to November 1993, and is politician, diplomat, lawyer and writer, only woman PM of Canada so far). 297 pages of text are followed by fairly extensive Notes and Index. It is a truly wonderful book containing loads of advice to women of ...