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Navigating Political Minefields in the Public Service

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

It was by a quirk of circumstance that my friend and batch mate AGA and I found ourselves in the office of Mr. Vaithialingam at Railway Headquarters one day about the end of June 1960. This amiable, gentle person was the Chief Engineer, Way and Works, Sri Lanka Railways.
Year after year for several years he [...]

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Are the Locomotive wheels falling apart?

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Thirty eight years after ‘he’ has left the department, and fifty three years after ‘it’ first landed in our shores and majestically moved around on our tracks, cloaked in blue and silver livery, causing the countryside to reverberate to the high frequencies that it would generate, they (he and it both) are still being talked [...]

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