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This time outside my office in Bangsar Utama 9, Kuala Lumpur. Recalling my blog of May 9, 2011

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Priyanthi Fernando: ..has been "working in development" for much too long. Her career seems to have taken a full circle - starting life as a junior researcher at the Marga Institute, Sri Lanka's first Development Studies institute in the mid 1970s even before graduation, and completing ten years as the Executive Director of the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA), an independent, Sri Lankan 'think tank' in March 2015, and moving on to head the team at the International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The interactions and experiences of over three decades have helped mould her outlook on life and her working and management style. She has worked in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Yemen and Australia and has spent almost ten years in the UK, coordinating an international network. She is passionate about issues of justice and about fighting structural inequalities - whether they be inequalities relating to gender, to knowledge, to access to technology or to poverty and livelihoods.

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Quotes

"Only after the last tree has been cut down.. the last river poisoned..the last fish caught.. only then will you find that money cannot be eaten" Cree Indian Prophesy

"Everything I know, I know because I love" - Leo Tolstoy

"At the risk of sounding ridiculous let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by love" - Che Guevara

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire

"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."
- Aung San Suu Kyi

“You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.”

- Maya Angelou

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It is about learning to dance in the rain"
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"a bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song"

Maya Angelou

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