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The next 25 years: How will the economy takeoff and how will it land?-by Rajan Philips Source:Island President Wickremesinghe has a charming or annoying way, depending on who is listening, of switching between flippancy and seriousness no matter what the occasion is. Addressing the Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2022, an annual event organized by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, with ‘Resetting from turmoil to opportunity’ as this year’s theme, the President reportedly shocked the business audience, deadpanning, “What reforms, when we don’t have an economy!” To an audience that was apparently agog for serious revelations about an economic reform plan, the President said, “What is the plan for reform? Frankly, I have no plan for it.” But he had a program to announce and called it, ‘The Next 25 Years.’ Mr. Wickremesinghe has been harping on 25 years for some time now. That is the President’s expectation for Sri Lanka ...

Dec 13, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Asian Development Bank Institute, Debayan Pakrashi, Dr. Nimal Sanderatne, Nimal Sanderatne, Prof. Sirimal Abeyratne, Ranil Wickremesinghe

Celebrating Anne the journalist and writer Saturday, February 9 saw friends and family of the late Anne Abayasekara, gather to celebrate her life as a journalist and writer. The event organised by her seven children, held at Ferguson Hall, Cinnamon Gardens Baptist Church, focused on Anne’s long and distinguished writing career from 1947-2014. It included reflections on the recently published book ‘Telling it like it is: Selected Writings Volume 1 Anne Abayasekara’. Rohan Abayasekara welcoming the guests and Dr. Nimal Sanderatne delivering his tribute to Anne Anne’s son Rohan welcomed the guests and among friends and family members who lit the traditional oil lamp was Anne’s only great-grandson in Sri Lanka; seven- year-old Yannish. Another son Dilip Family and friends: The audience at the launch delivered an opening prayer after which his sibling Ranjan spoke at length on ‘Telling It Like It Is – Anne the Writer’. He traced her ...

Mar 7, 2019 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Anne Abayasekara, Celebrating Anne the journalist and writer, Nimal Sanderatne, Rohan Abayasekara Comments 0

The pen PROVED MIGHTY INDEED! – A Celebration of Anne Abayasekara, journalist and writer On Saturday February 9, Cinnamon Gardens Baptist Church was host to a celebration of the work of the late Anne Abayasekara, Sri Lanka’s first woman to become a staff journalist and a much beloved writer over her career of nearly 70 years. The evening proceeded with each of her seven children speaking about their mother, recounting fond memories of the sounds of her typewriter in the family home and sharing poetry she had written for her grandchildren; all to an audience of family, friends and people who had been, in some way, affected by Abayasekara’s work. Pieces of writing were also read from a compilation of her essays and articles, entitled ‘Telling It Like It Is: Selected Writings Volume 1’. The collection, curated by her children, contains work from a prolific writing career beginning in 1947 ...

Mar 7, 2019 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Anne Abayasekara, Anne’s Children, journalist and writer, Nimal Sanderatne Comments 0