Empowerment - Page 9

  As the usual weekday morning buzz of traffic, footfall and chatter outside is suspended by an enforced lockdown, I am led into a renewed awareness. It is the absence of noise and movement we engage in from moment to moment,

I come from Galle, a city with a small-town feeling in  Southern Sri Lanka. I currently live in Brussels, Belgium with my Belgian husband and our two children. I left Sri Lanka in January 1994, to study for a Bachelor of

Everyone is introduced to the traditional cycle of ‘getting through school, finding a suitable degree, and settling for a job.’ Many of us weren’t told or encouraged to set bigger goals beyond it. Why not work towards becoming a successful

I firmly believe that everything that happens brings along a message and a life lesson. Coronavirus COVID-19 has hit us badly and we all are in a state of shock, uncertainty and disbelief at how such a tiny thing(virus)

    When I was growing into adolescence from childhood, my dreams started to shift as well. From an ardent longing to fly from mountains to paddy fields, I began to think about robots doing my homework and booking holidays in the

Hedonic Treadmill- An ironically unusual euphemism for humankind’s persistent preoccupation with happiness. The renewed continuously search for increased levels of happiness and the invariable adaptation to new-found happiness is a psychological phenomenon termed Hedonic Adaptation or Hedonic Treadmill. We aim at

Joseph, my friend in Vancouver, sent me some old black and white pictures. They depict scenes in Sri Lanka when the country was known as Ceylon, the Paradise Island. These pictures are interesting, provoking a variety of emotions within me. 

Entrepreneurs are disruptors by nature: progressive thinkers, impatient with limitations, people who go their own way – and not on the roads generally travelled. Melissa Dharmadasa, the creator of BakesByBella, highlights this when she says: ‘The mind is a

  The Ugly Topic Of Ragging The ugly topic of Ragging once again came into the limelight after a video went viral on social media recently. A bunch of new students from a reputed university in Sri Lanka