I have not written in a while. Rather have not written here in a while. Life has become about meetings, editing documents, and occasional columns. Putting words together has not been a regular venture of late, and I can’t say I missed it a lot. Maybe I did, without realising it. Maybe the heightened sense of being anxious, sort ...

I had the opportunity to be in Niger, a few months back, before COVID-19 limited our travels. It is a beautiful land with amazing humans. I left the land with few memories, and also a decision to expand work in the country, on climate change, sustainable development, law and policy. While I struggle to finish the research paper that I ...

A kid with whom I work guessed my age last week. I don’t remember the reason for this guessing game. I believe the whole conversation started when I mentioned to him that his father wanted to triple check my age, when I went in for a medical check. I had thought that his son might have had something to do ...

I was typing on Women’s Day when someone decided to interrupt, which changed the focus of what I wanted to write. As usual, something that someone needed clarified at 12.30am (thank you very much!) because someone said, something (another thank you!) which needed to be double checked with me, on whether I said something like that, at midnight (thank you ...

I am going to type this post on my phone, too lazy to open my laptop over a black coffee, and the sound of a man chuckling, potentially suffocating on the same chuckles a bit later At least that is what I think I hear. My mind remains in its darker corners, after dealing with an immigration officer who kept ...

Sometimes the only time I get to listen to Alanis Morissette, and watch a soldier-boy in a hat is when I am in dilemma mode at airports, trying to figure out whether I should continue typing to complete the research, or whether I should be a normal human at 1.38am. What do I end up doing? I clean the screen ...

Of late I have been thinking about how life has changed over the last decade, or rather over the last 3 decades. I certainly do not remember much of my childhood, or the teen age years. Come to think of it, not even my early twenties for that matter. It might be strange, but then again, I hardly remember what ...

It’s been quite a while since I last wrote, but I am hoping I will make it a habit to write more frequently in 2020. (Here’s to hope!) On 2019, the year was good in many ways and kind to me in general. Work was good, life was good. Drama in life if there was, revolved mostly around work budgets, ...

It’s been a week since the Easter Sunday Attacks. People ask me how things are. I usually tell out of reflect, “we are trying to regain normalcy”. The next moment I wonder what normalcy is. Anymore. On Saturday, I had been working on assignments focusing on peace building till quite late, to wake up to calls from those checking if ...

Throughout history, natural resources have been the cause of many conflicts. While scarcity of resources such as water has been the cause of conflict among communities for the remaining water supply, the abundance of expensive resources such as diamonds has also been a cause of conflict in countries such as Sierra Leone, Congo, Liberia, and Angola which have experienced decades ...

The 23rd Conference of Parties (COP23) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Bonn, Germany from November 6th to 17th, 2017. It was the first COP to be presided by a Small Island Developing State, with Fiji as its presidency, and was politically and technically important due to diverse reasons. This article will focus on ...

Happiness is finding that someone, with whom you can be yourself. Especially on your wedding day. PS. I have not written in a long time. I plan to break that cycle. Hopefully soon.

It’s been a slow year for writing on anything personal. Things were way over my head with work, and personal life has been less traumatising to be writing on. I think those souls suffering have a knack to put things together in a manner that really reaches out to one’s soul. For me, I had lesser sufferings of the traumatised ...

Autism is not a term that is heard in Sri Lankan households but one that is soon becoming one that is affecting many households. With many children being diagnosed with symptoms within the autism spectrum disorder, awareness on how to address autism is a question that is raised by many, especially by parents who have children with autism. Ishanthi Perera ...

So it is a new year, and 2017 has come faster than expected. 2016 was interesting enough, I have not written much as I would have liked to, no time, boredom, insomnia, overwork, the list is long. But the year has taught me a few things. One needs to be able to make the best of what is offered: Life ...

(C) Nils Werner “I can’t trust you anymore,” he says, “You are so different, I have no clue what has got into you. It’s best we don’t speak again. Why did you have to speak to her? And you didn’t tell me! That too for ten days!” He screams. “What happened to you? How can I ever trust you, ...

I walk the streets of pavements and people, with boiling pots of oil bananas and mango fries, flowers, shoes and spectacles dresses, laughs dust and pebbles. I walk eyes on me the strange being walking the streets alone mornings late evenings and nights at times, the only brown one on these roads, a phone at hand tracking places and smiling faces, in search of food and solitude.

Are you a female? Have you had one of those colleagues who likes to get personal when you want to discuss something in factual sense? Have you been told “let’s not get emotional?” when you were trying to make a point (in all ignorance to what emotions he was referring). Well, I have. If you have faced similar situations, then ...

I have not written in a while, not sure whether it was a conscious decision, but well, did not get around to typing anything on the blog section. The random, meaningless, rants that is, the longer, structured, supposedly technical writing I believe I have done a few in the last months.  Life got busy, with work plans, fund raising ...

I have not written in a while, not sure whether it was a conscious decision, but well, did not get around to typing anything on the blog section. The random, meaningless, rants that is, the longer, structured, supposedly technical writing I believe I have done a few in the last months.  Life got busy, with work plans, fund raising ...