Independence

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 ... Read More

A License Raj

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. ... Read More

A Lack of a Right of reply to “Right of reply – Rotarian replies to Muttukumaru”

http://www.dailymirror.lk/149962/Right-of-reply-Rotarian-replies-to-Muttukumaru “Editor’s Note: This correspondence is now closed.” Amrit Muttukumaru, a self-defined public activist who makes it a point to stick it to those who are in power, is prominent within the local papers. He makes allegations. The allegation relevant to this piece of work is that against K.R. Ravindran. Muttukumara alleges that K. R. ... Read More

Reply to misleading article published in Daily FT

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 ... Read More

Vehicle Parades

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 ... Read More

Reply to the Loathsome Socialite (Daily Mirror)

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 ... Read More