It’s been 20 years since this happened and I was in the university. Janaka told me Dr.Nihal wants to meet you. අන්න නිහාල් සර් උඹට හම්බවෙන්න කිව්වාI said “I don’t know him… what’s the reason”ඒ මොකෝ.. මම සර්ව දන්නෙත් නෑ“well, he is planning an expedition to Adams peak via a pretty unknown direction. He is searching for suitable guys who ...
For most of us, we are not very good with money. The money came in and went away and nearly 80% of people live paycheck to paycheck. I'm guessing it's something that you can relate to as well. After four years of university, most of the students left with a degree and a hundred thousand dollars in student loan debt. ...
Paekakariki Escarpment TrackPhoto taken at Paekakariki Escarpment Track, Wellington, New Zealand.Photograph by Kesara Rathnayake [flickr].——This image was created with free open source software Gimp.This image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Hello! Your favorite Sri Lankan Food blogger here :) On my show these days, I’m doing a series of Christmas recipes that are so easy to do that you will be amazed. And Abans, being my preferred choice of kitchen appliances are helping me with their Philips, Elba, Mistral, B&B bakeware and Abans ranges to make the cooking process so ...
Photo courtesy the President’s Twitter account “The tragic paradox of the electoral route to authoritarianism is that democracy’s assassins use the very institutions of democracy – gradually, subtly, and even legally – to kill it.” Stephen Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (How Democracies Die) “As if our democracy was nothing but a short-lived dream,” says Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa in The ...
Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons I eat Point Pedro vaddai–urad dhal, chillies, curry leaves, fennel, salt– the packet forgotten until now among treats I bought from a fair in Colombo the last time I went to the island home. Domestic trade is back, Yal Devi train back, roads rebuilt, but the puzzle misses something still: the dead, our memories fading. So ...
A universally accepted official definition for shadow banking has not yet been introduced by any of the formal institutes and therefore, most of the people tend to define shadow banking as the “credit intermediation between entities which takes place outside the regular banking system”. But referring the shadow banking only to the credit intermediation is a bit misleading since ...
My current work requires keeping track of more than a dozen live websites and making sure that their versions are kept up to date. We have employed a small Go program to make this possible, which enable us to scrape the generator meta tags on the websites and thereby get the version number1. The code is simple and uses ...
