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Ruwindhu Peiris

Food and fearlessness play vital roles in the life of the Director of Operations at Stax
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Virtusa’s $270 million bet on banking disruption

Tech firm Virtusa’s growth over the last one and a half decades is owed significantly to banks that wanted to be lean and fighting fit, and to the global banking crisis of 2007. The firm is now readying for a third disruptive wave hitting the financial sector
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Origami meets foot spa

Design firm Pollen Studio partitioned a busy shopping mall lobby for a foot massage centre using thick folded paper
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Aitken Spence Hotels’ refocused expansion

Aitken Spence Hotels built some iconic Sri Lankan resorts in the 1990’s before shifting attention to expanding overseas. Since the long conflict ended here, Spence’s hotel unit has refocused on growing its Sri Lankan business. Its challenge is to maintain shareholder returns as it grows its inventory by 50%
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Rediscovering the Legacy of Herbert Sri Nissanka

Driven by his mother’s memories, Amal Randhir Karunaratna is on a quest to reclaim his grandfather’s rightful place as a history maker of Sri Lanka.
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innovation

Building the AK-47 equivalent robotic drone

Former Boeing engineer Tilak Dissanayake has undertaken his most ambitious project yet – to build a cheap, mass-produced robotic drone to run long-distance air cargo operations
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The vinyl resurgence

How people listen to music has changed more in the last five years than in the fifty years previously. So what’s behind the comeback of a century-old way of listening to music?
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We need to take an entire systems approach: Nayana Mawilmada

Urban Development Authority’s new Director General Nayana Mawilmada thinks his challenge is two-fold. First, to approach city planning with an eye for an integrated system-wide approach and, second, to limit the State’s role to laying the foundation for private investors to take on development projects
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leadership

Inside Colombo’s Super-Prime Real-Estate

Chandaka de Soysa is the top estate agent for Sri Lanka’s super prime real estate. Colombo’s wealthiest often seek his advice about prospects. With supply plentiful, we ask him if the prime and super-prime apartment market is frothy?
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Around The Clock Style

Rose gold, Titanium, diamond studded, blue dials - when it comes to watch trends, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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public-policy

State Universities: Over the Abyss?

There has never been such a thing as a ‘smooth period’ in recent Sri Lankan university history. But it has now deteriorated. Unfortunately there are no magic bullet solutions
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What type of tech startup should you do?

The optimal choice for budding local entrepreneurs
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Sri Lanka’s budget for 2016 outlines significant freedoms, some contradictions

Sri Lanka’s budget for 2016 has proposed significant freedoms for the people, in a move away from liberty-robbing budgets up to January 2015, but there are also several contradictions and interventions that may restrict people and have negative fallouts.
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