DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA ‘To be Realistic There Are Only Two Options’ opined emeritus professor (and emeritus Marxist) Kumar David in these pages last Sunday. This is his core argument: “There are only two political options…worth taking seriously – the President Ranil Wickremesinghe (RW) led outfit and the National Peoples’ Power (NPP) public face of the […]
Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada Founder & Administrator – Global Hospitality Forum chandij@sympatico.ca Struggling with Doctoral Studies By 1998, I was struggling with my doctoral research. By then I realized that doing a Ph.D. in the midst of a busy hotel career, at times demanding 16-hour work […]
by Hugh Karunanayake Mid twentieth century Colombo was very much Anglo centric. Ceylon, as the country was then known was still in a state of “colonial hangover”, not having rediscovered its indigenous identity yet. Although the country was granted independence from its colonial rulers in 1948, the general ethos pervading its social, cultural and economic […]
CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBAL GYPSY Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada Founder & Administrator – Global Hospitality Forum chandij@sympatico.ca Troubles in Paradise Sri Lanka is often described as ‘Paradise’ and is poised to do well in tourism. It is tropical island with a coastline of 1,562 Km. The […]
CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBAL GYPSY Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada Founder & Administrator – Global Hospitality Forum chandij@sympatico.ca During my three years as the Director of Food & Beverage at the 500-room five-star hotel – Le Galadari Meridien in Colombo, I boldly tried out some “unorthodox” business […]