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Beg No More!"When I suggested that we will have a credit scheme for beggars, people thought I was crazy." That was Grameen Bank's Muhammad Yunus talking when I met him in Bonn, in 2004. He was being honoured at an international forum for his visionary leadership. Chitrasena, my neighbourIt was in the spacious mid 40s that we came from the tranquil outskirts of Kurunegala, then a mere small town just above the status of a hamlet, to live on Galle Road, Kollupitiya. The two-mile expanse from Kollupitiya to Bambalapitiya had, in an earlier era been the plush residential locale of the affluent when Colombo Seven was yet gardens of cinnamon.
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