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Many of us look back at our simple childhood without much technology - and some of us did not even have electricity in our homes, let alone TV or a telephone - and idealise it.   Now with all this technology, life is fast paced, interconnected globally, the competition is high and more than ever media and social pressure defines what is cool and what is not.  All this adds a lot more stress to a growing child.

We as parents may feel a gap in understanding our two worlds.  As…

Making a move from Sri Lanka where I was for the last 27 years enjoying the warm weather, the social life and meaningful work,  also dealing with the challenges of a brutal war around us, yet feeling as we were living our life on the edge and to its fullest, was not an easy one.

We chose Ottawa, a smaller city, accessible, nice people and the beauty of nature, yet making a move at my age of 52 is challenging.   Then again, my father was 57 when he and my mother immigrated with us to…

It is not as if I had not travelled to the west , it is not even as if I have never lived in the west, but moving back to Canada from Sri Lanka after 27 years, I had truly forgotten how embedded consumerism is in life here.

It is also not as if consumerism is not taking a foothold in Sri Lanka - it is there - the media machine is making headway to the remotest corners of the country to sell products and offering credit for things that are not…

“Fish smells from the head” – Vietnamese proverb.

Therefore, if our society stinks, chances are today’s leaders have gaps in integrity and honesty.

Most people cannot imagine Spirituality and Leadership mentioned in the same breath. To many this is combining two entirely unrelated concepts. Yet, the level of our intelligence and our

ability to think and analyze and…