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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Friday, August 30, 2013
Sri Lanka: The Brothers’ Grip
Eric Ellis
In
Sri Lanka, power is concentrated – around President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Meet his brothers, sons, other relations and even his
astrologer-turned-banker.
Meet Sumanadasa Abeygunawardena. He’s every saver’s dream come true – a bank director who can predict the future.
Rajapaksa Family Ties
Abeygunawardena
is the ‘working director’ of one of Sri Lanka’s biggest banks, the
state-owned National Savings Bank (NSB) – that is, when he’s not being a
celebrity soothsayer.
Abeygunawardena’s main claim to fame in Sri Lanka is as an astrologer.
With his columns in government-friendly newspapers, a regular
star-gazing spot on national television and a lucrative personal
horoscope service delivered via SMS with the state telco, he’s one of
the country’s most visible faces.
Read more in the The Globalmail
*Eric Ellis is
an award-winning journalist who writes about the politics, economics
and societies of South and South-East Asia. He has written for a range
of international journals; Fortune Magazine, Forbes, the Financial
Times, Time Magazine, The Times, The Bulletin/Newsweek, The
Spectator,Institutional Investor, Euromoney, The Sydney Morning
Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review and the International
Herald Tribune.
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