Last year, I saw this tweet and decided to reply to it with a series of tweets: Apparently this is called a “quarter-life crisis” and is now a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter-life_crisis. I replied with a series of tweets which I am putting into this blog (and possibly annotate a bit more…

We started the Avinya Foundation to change the lives of economically disadvantaged students by giving them a world class vocational education delivering them hope and vision. We know we’re starting with students who (for the most part) have no hope or vision for their future. …

The infamous 19A limits powers of the executive presidency in serious ways. Ex-President Gotabhaya Rajapakse committed to bringing it back, but then tried to bring back a heavily watered down version as 22A (which would’ve become 21A .. …

Sri Lanka is currently going through a political implosion of sorts originating from economic mismanagement. …

I wrote this message to the WSO2 team. Please use it as you wish: Hi Everyone, I’m writing to the entire company as there are many Sri Lankans in other countries in our company and many of the others too are passionate about this little island. As everyone knows, the…

It is now around 1pm in Sri Lanka on Sunday April 3rd. By now everyone who knows about Sri Lanka knows that we have a huge people-led protest going on against the government. As I write this, all social media is blocked and there’s country-wide curfew until Monday morning. People…

I resigned from the ICTA Board last Thursday. I was appointed to the board in December .. so its about 6 months. That’s the shortest board stint for me — previous winner was the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Modern Technologies where I was on the board for a year. …

I was born in 1967 and grew up in the 70s in Colombo, Sri Lanka. My father was in the army then and my mother was a school teacher. We lived in a rented home down Stratford Avenue in Colombo 5 — #40 Stratford Avenue to be precise. …

Today was declared a public holiday in Sri Lanka — for obvious reasons. And there may be more public “holidays”. I wrote an email to everyone in WSO2 about the importance of keeping the lights on even in these conditions. Posting it here in case it helps others too. We…