Thamara Kandabada
Thamara Kandabada
I’m Thamara, furniture-peddler by day and wearer-of-many-hats by night. I like to watch films, enjoy live music, tinker with this website, play guitar, and run in my free time. I'm currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Are we doing it right?I was invited to an event yesterday. The Ministry of Social Services of Sri Lanka, along with UN Volunteers and UNDP, launched the National Volunteering Secretariat (NVS) at an extravagant event held in Galadari Colombo, with First Lady Shiranthi Wickramasinghe-Rajapaksa attending as the chief...
How the shifts in global political power affect usIn a set of latest findings, TIME says that China will take over the USA as the world’s largest economy in 2019. Evidence to support this prediction can be seen all over the world if you look closely — Chinese Internet giant Alibaba claimed the distinction of having...
A photo essay on the accelerated development in Colombo’s Seat StreetThe Old Sea Street. For years, Sea Street (Hetti Veediya) was known as the one place for best gold jewellery in Colombo. The closely packed street is is home to hundreds of Gold merchants, mostly of Tamil origin, who have for long dominated the...
By Original: Sri LankaVectorization: Zscout370, Mike Rohsopht - SLS 1: 2020 Specification for the National Flag of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka My first post for UNICEF Voices of Youth Blogging InternshipI have to admit that this very subject has become a cliché and a mechanical topic for every kid...
Learning from the European UnionMay was an eventful month for India. The worlds largest democracy said hello to a new Prime Minister and the Gandhi family took a major hit in years, Arvind Kejriwal was arrested and the Aam Aadmi Party (of which Time once featured an article in which the party was identified as...
What the Communists forgotCommunity owned property. Collective contribution. Equal wealth distribution. And Justice For All. Justice it is, for there comes about the complete absence of inequality, and Thomas Piketty would have the least worry of authoring another book. What is equal in not always what is just, but...
An account of the ground realities at #WCY2014More than two weeks have passed since the conclusion of the World Conference on Youth and the subsequent launch of the Colombo Declaration on Youth, and the hype has practically died down. But my mind still ails at the very thought of all that hustle, all those...
On the Chinese cconomy Xi Jinping sits in Beijing, laying out the foundations and eyeing the opportunities to surpass USA’s GDP by 2025. Meanwhile, the world is wondering how the People’s Republic of China would continue Deng Xiaoping’s ‘‘peaceful growth’’, in the brink of a crisis resembling the one that caused the...
On America’s role in the Middle East crisisOperation Neptune Spear ended the life of Usama Bin Laden (UBL) in 2011. America’s dreaded enemy was put to death by the bullets of ”heroic” US Navy Seals almost effortlessly, according to Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty. The Pentagon finally did away with the monster it...
On having an “Asian Giant” as a neighbourIt’s true that New Delhi had had its ups and downs with Colombo. But to this date, the ‘‘Anti-Imperialistic’’ State of India remains Sri Lanka’s largest trading partner and the largest sponsor for the development projects of the war-hit areas in the Northern and Eastern...
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