Dileni Gunewardena (@dilenigun) 's Twitter Profile
Dileni Gunewardena

@dilenigun

University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka academic, PEP Research Fellow, former Brookings Global Echidna Scholar. Also on @bluesky, same handle.

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linkhttp://www.brookings.edu/about/centers/universal-education/cue-global-scholars calendar_today04-04-2013 11:41:29

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SANDEE's summer 2025 research grant is open. Receive $20k-$30k for environmental & natural resource economics research. Focus on climate risk, mountain economies, or global policies. Apply by 31 Dec: icimod.org/sandee/researc…

Umesh Moramudali (@umeshmoramudali) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Can this anti-austerity gov amend the circular issued by treasury preventing universities using their generated funds to support lectures to attend foreign conferences ? To get the leaves, academics have to assure the administration that uni funds are not used Dr. Harini Amarasuriya

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Perhaps the minister can knock some sense into the principals? Dr. Harini Amarasuriya Teachers’ saree issue forces exam marking centre to temporarily close newswire.lk/2025/01/17/tea…

Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam (@shanakiyanr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Governments change, Presidents change but the police obtaining court orders prohibiting Tamil MPs from holding demonstrations doesn’t change. The Batticaloa police have obtained a court order prohibiting 7 individuals including myself from holding any demonstrations today. Their

Governments change, Presidents change but the police obtaining court orders prohibiting Tamil MPs from holding demonstrations doesn’t change. 
The Batticaloa police have obtained a court order prohibiting 7 individuals including myself from holding any demonstrations today. Their
Sanjee #GoodGovernance🇱🇰🇪🇸🇧🇪🇪🇷🇿🇼🇳🇦🇫🇮 (@nomadic_sanjee) 's Twitter Profile Photo

She doesn’t need a saree, a husband, or children to lead—just vision, integrity, and courage. It’s not culture she defies, but the narrow roles forced on women. Leadership can come in different styles. Adapt as a nation. #SriLanka #SystemChange

She doesn’t need a saree, a husband, or children to lead—just vision, integrity, and courage. 

It’s not culture she defies, but the narrow roles forced on women. 

Leadership can come in different styles. Adapt as a nation. 

#SriLanka
#SystemChange
NewsWire 🇱🇰 (@newswirelk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Americans buy a lot of clothes from Sri Lanka, but Sri Lanka doesn’t buy many gas turbines from America. That’s not a trade imbalance that needs to be corrected," CNN's Erin Burnett discusses Trump's tariff math with economics professor Brent Neiman

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An interesting read. 2 takeaways I see for Sri Lanka: 1st, America s trade deficit is because it spends more than it produces. So, SL policy makers could not have pre-empted this. 2nd, travel has not been taxed. Tourism should be our #1 priority. open.substack.com/pub/dominicano…

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Parents can do inskolning as part of their 480 days of paid leave per child – as an American abroad, this was a foreign concept. But here’s what the US could le… Source: the Guardian Shared via the Google app search.app/VzHHSj2ohHQZCL…

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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."