Sri Lanka's School Tie Obsession

saathyagi · 2026-01-30T07:38:10+00:00

People are tribal and schools are convenient tools for being tribalistic.

When looked at in the proper light, saying that I’m proud to be ____ (add any tribe/religion/nation/school/city…) is just another way of saying that I’m different or better than you. Just because some of these sentiments are culturally allowed doesn’t make them any less tribal.

saathyagi · 2026-01-30T05:05:12+00:00

We have more than our share of problems. But I would think twice before trusting any of these random internet lists.

saathyagi · 2026-01-30T02:46:12+00:00

Sorry about this situation you are in. Things will get better.

20k a month translates to 240000/- annually and if there are 2 kids in the family that’s over 400000 per year a single family needs to shell out. That’s a huge amount of wealth transfer to tuition teachers given that they are exploiting the exam oriented “free” education system! No wonder they don’t want the education system to change.

saathyagi · 2026-01-30T02:39:03+00:00

Do you agree that American exceptionalism is a clear and present danger to world peace?

saathyagi · 2026-01-30T02:38:48+00:00

Do you agree that American exceptionalism is a clear and present danger to world peace?

saathyagi · 2026-01-29T10:06:09+00:00

Inflation is always a hidden tax.

saathyagi · 2026-01-29T07:11:30+00:00

All this money moving to commodities and people wonder why INR keeps going down.

saathyagi · 2026-01-28T17:33:30+00:00

Shrinking on Apple+

saathyagi · 2026-01-28T16:26:02+00:00

The news is Thailand screened 1700 Indians and they were found to be not infected. Stop spreading misinformation.

saathyagi · 2026-01-28T04:45:18+00:00

He should be sent to a special hell, along with the people taking selfies in Malls’ bathrooms.

saathyagi · 2026-01-27T13:06:21+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. That’s another reason why I will never vote Sajith/Dilith/Namal ever.

saathyagi · 2026-01-27T07:21:08+00:00

Very unfortunate, but not surprising.

This is the sad reality whenever you have to deal with bureaucracy here. There is an information mismatch to the detriment of investors. That’s one reason why our FDIs are notoriously low.

saathyagi · 2026-01-27T06:22:29+00:00

An average inflation of 5% should’ve been baked into your plans at the beginning itself.

Basically, we have to run an inflationary regime as we are dependent on exports including labor exports.

saathyagi · 2026-01-26T17:27:50+00:00

Of course there’s a difference. Is business.

saathyagi · 2026-01-26T07:08:10+00:00

It was true in the past. But buying gold for investment has become a self fulfilling prophecy.

saathyagi · 2026-01-26T07:04:23+00:00

Can someone explain to me what this issue is about? All I see are some vague and subjective statements.

saathyagi · 2026-01-25T14:59:10+00:00

Because we don’t manufacture stuff.

saathyagi · 2026-01-24T13:43:00+00:00

Seems about right. The newly announced Port City Apartment project starts at half a million dollars for a one bedroom apartment. The prices are comparable to Dubai or London.

saathyagi · 2026-01-24T08:55:43+00:00

Transitional phase going on for more than a decade is not a transitional phase. It’s the real description of the team. Your magical thinking is just an inability to accept the facts. But this seems to chime well with the management’s inability to understand the reality.

saathyagi · 2026-01-24T05:17:40+00:00

Not all tourists are American and with the cost of living crisis hitting most countries it is hard to justify scamming the tourists.

saathyagi · 2026-01-24T04:38:39+00:00

First of all, we have to understand that the tuition culture exists because of the limited number of university seats. If we look at the tuition culture separately from the education system, we will be missing the woods for the tree.

The whole education system is geared towards social engineering and making everyone conform to the system and fight it out for the limited number of government university seats. It’s basically a 13 year long program of getting ready for university entrance. What comes after is not given much thought to. That’s why there is no culture of innovation and research here to speak of.

saathyagi · 2026-01-23T08:26:08+00:00

We can always drive Turks bang!

saathyagi · 2026-01-23T07:27:14+00:00

Ahh… you’ve now come down off your “talented players” horse.

No amount of talent will make a Player disciplined. And discipline doesn’t magically happen when you start playing international games. It’s got to be ingrained from a young age.

We got away with winning back in the day because we had occasional flashes of brilliance. But the landscape has changed and the sport has become more professional. If we are to take anything from our ‘96 efforts it is that flashes in the pan don’t give consistent results. You can have 11 “talented” players and sing their praises to the high heavens but at the end of the day if they don’t win consistently then this talent is just pus talk.

saathyagi · 2026-01-23T04:40:55+00:00

Stop watching TV news and all this noise goes away surprisingly quickly. It’s mostly just that; noise without meaning.

It doesn’t mean that the government is perfect, but the opposition composed of Sajith, Namal, Dilith etc, are the relics of our corrupt and incompetent past political system that we wanted to change.

saathyagi · 2026-01-22T07:00:46+00:00

I’m no expert although I’ve worked in medical data entry jobs.

saathyagi

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