Below is the response I sent to Daily Mirror Life following an article by a well known socialite by the name of Kollu. I doubt my message ever reached the actual author. Subject:The Loathsome Socialite From:perera_d94@yahoo.com To:dailymirrorlife@gmail.com Date:Friday, February 16, 2018, 4:00:57 PM GMT+5:30 Dear Mirror Life, Please be so kind as to forward this response in a manner you ...

This is a letter I wrote in response to a unusual trading activity enquiry which had made no allowance for the scale of my market activity. The SEC and CSE are religiously opposed to a world of small stakeholders in large corporations. They show disdain for shareholder voting, rights, and participation within the exchange. From: Dinesh Perera Sent: Friday, March ...

7th March 2018 On Banking Concentration Under Indrajit Commaraswamy we are to see a major consolidation of the non-banking financial institutions in the country. We are currently also seeing a huge recapitalization of the banking industry. I have many issues with the current Central Banker but feel that on an overall balance he is doing a good job. His actions ...

Let me start by saying that I would vote for Harsha if he was in my electorate. He is one of the few politicians I would not mind inviting into my own home. A double standard is when a code of conduct is unfairly applied in different ways to different people or groups. Harsha De Silva has recently called (quite ...

This is a response I wrote to an article on the implications on the anti tobacco policies of the government. Subject: Implications of the proposed ban of the sale of loose cigarettes in Sri Lanka. From: perera_d94@yahoo.com To: sripathitishani@gmail.com; Contact_CTC@bat.com; editor@ft.lk Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 2:09:25 PM GMT+5:30 Dear Ms Tishani Sripathi, I write to you following reading your ...

Dear Reader, You are an integral part of this post. I have been instructed by my father to list a Colombo based property on the internet for rent. This happens every two or three years as tenants move out. On doing it this time however I find that the prices have skyrocketed. Services like this a few years ago would ...

This was the final email I sent to Mrs Nilupa Perera, Head of Trading,Market Surveillance & Corporate Affairs, on this matter. I would have held more shares in order to benefit from the consolidation but sadly I had not read the corporate disclosure. Her response was to reiterate the corporate disclosure. From: Dinesh Perera [mailto:perera_d94@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2018 2:30 PM ...

  The Central Bank (CBSL) exists for the sole purpose of price stability. It’s controls on the financial system and monetary policy exist to maintain price stability. As put forth many times by the Governor, the failing of the CBSL to control inflation is a fireable offence. In this light the following text aims to put forth a view ...

Subject:Report from the Reserve Bank of India From:perera_d94@yahoo.com To:vajira@sec.gov.lk; mail@sec.gov.lk Cc:info@cse.lk; cbslgen@cbsl.lk; buddhikaa@irononetech.com; dineths@irononetech.com; charithh@irononetech.com; sundayleaderbusiness@gmail.com; editor@dailynews.lk; editor@sundaytimes.wnl.lk Date:Thursday, March 15, 2018, 9:46:20 AM GMT+5:30 Dear Mr Vajira Gunawardene, I write to you in your role as the Director General of the SEC. The framework and regulation which you create will make or break the

Lecturer: Essay Question-“Offering Work Life Balance Programs will result in positive outcomes for organizations and for employees.” Critically evaluate this statement using theory and evidence from the research literature. Dinesh (Thinking to himself): I shall not be put to the task of writing a truism. Dinesh: The statements only failing is in its choice of words. Appropriate Work-Life Balance Programs will result ...

Event registration is more than just a formality with certain organizers.  I remember signing up as and when I received the email. They did not like the fact that I placed my occupation as ‘rightful king’ or wording to that effect. Subject:Re: Participant registration for Chevening alumni event – September 21 From:perera_d94@yahoo.com To:cheveningalumnisrilanka@gmail.com Date:Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 12:14:16 PM GMT+5:30 ...

While going through Kottu.org I stumbled across a blog aligned to the Bakamoono movement. Within the use of conflation, emotional manipulation, and exaggeration I found this line that I found to be quite worrisome. This line worried me because it was more than just unionized rhetoric but rather socially divisive. “Patriarchy has done its job so well that those who ...

“Given that Sri Lanka is a twin deficit country, in terms of budget deficit and current account deficit, the chances that Sri Lanka attracting new money at this juncture is very minimal indeed. By increasing interest rates, we will not be able to attract new money or keep the money already invested.” Indrajit Coomaraswamy 02.10.2018 Inflation targeting as defined ...

This is an open letter I wrote after a vehicle parade for the Battle of the Saints prevented me from riding my bicycle on a Saturday. Dear Colombo, Your expensive children are sitting on door ledges of powerful sports vehicles that are being driven by maniacs! A parade in most nations is a procession of people. They may contain vehicles ...

This piece serves as a gambit to a relatively unpopular budgetary reform that should be pushed through. In Sri Lanka as in the rest of the world the vehicle is a status symbol. It’s role as a status symbol is however more pronounced in Sri Lanka. High duty, petrol costs, and realizable value in the secondary market make the ...

The Central Bank governor at his recent statement at the Digital Banking summit stated that he felt like a charlatan when asked to speak about technology. He is right. This is not because, as he attributes it, of his recent acquisition of a smartphone but rather due to his regulatory lack of support for digital innovation. The Central Bank through ...

“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.” – Bob Hope Banking in Sri Lanka is lending to a person only if it results in that person being worse off. I recently got rejected for a loan, for the purchase of a government security, and for the collateralizing of ...

Subject: Independence From: perera_d94@yahoo.com To: globalmedia@visa.com; lkhelpdesk@bookmyshow.com Date: Sunday, June 3, 2018, 5:27:41 PM GMT+5:30 This message contains blocked images. Show images or Always show images Dear Visa and BookMyShow, I write to you following a failure to place a discounted transaction on your site. As you may know, this month Visa cardholders are entitled to up to 25% off ...

Sri Lankan Banking and Finance can be categorised as a license raj. This is not because institutions are regulated by the central bank but rather that the capacity to conduct business is contingent on one obtaining a license. For the NBFI sector, usually understood as the Finance companies, are heavily constrained by this licensing structure. We live in a context ...

Full doc.x with images at bottom. Arvind Subramaniam recently made statements in the Central Bank about rebuilding the social contract. He put forth a narrative of reform whereby he called for the building of trust in government institutions. The statements also coincided with the revelation to the general public that cheque payments had been made to the former president, members ...