Commitment as a key to national success
I thank the MBA Alumni Association of the
University of Colombo for having invited me to be the Chief Guest at
this Management Conference. The theme chosen for this year’s
conference, 'Beyond Traditional Boundaries' is a very appropriate
one. Sri Lanka is now one of the most peaceful and stable nations in
the Asian region. All of us are stakeholders in this country’s
future, and we have an opportunity to build on the foundation of
peace to take Sri Lanka to the next level.
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Economist with a social conscience
This week reminiscences features Professor W. D.
Lakshman, an internationally renowned economist and a highly
respected university teacher. The former Vice Chancellor of the
Colombo University, Professor W. D. Lakshman is surprisingly
unassuming yet self assured and self confident. “I was born in a
village in the Southern Province called Mihiripenna, about eight or
nine Kilometres from the Galle - Matara highway line. I had my early
education up to Grade Five in the village school. My father W. D. P.
de Silva was a small businessman and my mother, Nonahami
Kumarasinghe, was a housewife. I had one younger brother and two
older sisters. After Grade Five I went to Vidyaloka College. It was
a small school at the time, and I enjoyed life there with a small
number of students,” said Professor Lakshman.
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Role of youth leadership in reconciliation
I work through a multi-talented diverse network
I have build myself ever since schooling at St Bridget's Convent,
Colombo which kept growing as I attended several universities and
then worked as a Conflict Transformer across continents. The
experience of having worked in the humanitarian field since 2003,
seeing the volatile ground reality, change of attitudes among the
victims and offenders during and post conflict, I believe broadened
my understanding and sensitize me towards the deeper needs of the
beneficiaries.
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Unforgettable personalities - Comrade Colvin
In 1940, Colvin along with the other LSSP
activists were thrown behind the bars. They succeeded in breaking
free from their incarceration at Bogambara prison and fled to India
where they lived incognito for a considerable period of time. Their
freedom was short lived; the Police swooped on them and they found
themselves back on Sri Lankan soil, behind the bars. Colvin did not
idle while in incarceration. He came up with a fine book titled 'Brithanya
Palanayata Yatahwu Lankawa' (Ceylon under British Rule). Colvin
continued his relationship with Bolshevik, Leninist party - in India
and extended his fullest co-operation to the strike launched by the
Madras Worker's Union at the Buckingham and Carnatic Factory.
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