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🌱 Building @KidsTilli | 🧮 Researching @StanfordEd Prev: @GoogleForEdu @medialab @Wellesley

San Francisco / Sri Lanka
Joined March 2014
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Before everything is the fact that Tilli focuses on the well-being of children. All children. The VC community, especially education focused VCs - your silence in the face of a genocide is appalling. @GenocideVC
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Amma had to take a hella lot of loans to put me through school and to make it by. 12 years later, last night I paid it all off. For the first time in our lifetime we're debt free ❤️ Here's to resilient women who fought alone and ferociously.
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2 years
We will rebuild GGG. ✊
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2 years
Jean aunty 💛
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2 years
If any individual in #srilanka has prescribed medicine that is out of stock, that can be a) purchased online or b) purchased with a prescription. I can bring it down by this weekend. Email me at kavindya @stanford .edu or DM for my WhatsApp.
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2 years
If there are any attacks on human life or bloodshed in the next few hours - @PresRajapaksa and @GotabayaR will now bare sole responsibility. The Prime minister and President are intentionally fuelling unrest and bloodshed at GGG @HCCanSriLanka @UNICEF_SriLanka @UKinSriLanka
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2 years
They hit us for 15-20 minutes straight outside the parliament. There were children there. It was a peaceful protests. Even when we screamed there were children and people were collapsing on the ground - they kept firing tear gas and water. #protestLK
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2 years
So this happened at the UN South-South Expo! To be recognized for the work we do @KidsTilli (+ to rep 🇱🇰) is truly gratifying! I built Tilli for my own 8 year old self & nothing beats waking up every morning to do the work you love. Onwards 🙌 Thank you @ITU @UNOSSC @MFAThai !
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3 years
🇱🇰 A true champion Kumudu Priyanka Dissanayake Mudiyanselage
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2 years
It's 1.00 am. Electrifying energy outside the parliament! Unreal that we're occupying what's rightfully ours. #GoHomeGota
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Kavindya Thennakoon
4 years
We want your sister agencies to really pay your interns. Like really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really Pay your interns
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UN Women
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Retweet if you really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really want equal pay. #GenerationEquality
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2 years
This is my dear friend, work colleague and sister @ayanthi_m . She has a one year old at home and represents the tech industry of #SriLanka . I am so incredibly grateful for folks like her. Technology is and will always be political. ✊ #GotaGoHome2022
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5 years
6 years ago, I wasn't allowed to attend my high school graduation. Lyceum cut my name off the list just to make sure the announcer didn't read it by mistake. I was asked to come outside the gates to pick my prizes. Yesterday I delivered the student commencement address @Wellesley
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
Never forget that if Ranil did his damn job using the mandate the people gave him in 2015, we wouldn't be in this mess. Ranil's language is deal making. Ranil has always protected the Rakapakshas and will continue to do so.
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1 year
Today is a historic day for teachers in #SriLanka . Several of them took the brave decision to defy the ministry order that requires teachers to wear a traditional sari to school. In the midst of crippling issues in education THIS is what the administration is obsessed with
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I wish at least now we stop confusing patriotism with racism and our "love for the country" as been enamored by one man, party or family.
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2 years
This is Fr. Jeewantha. Anyone who has come to #GGG knows of his presence + his tireless work within and beyond Galle Face. On the 9th attack he bravely stood with fellow protestors. Today the CID has demanded his passport to impose a travel ban. He is a witness in this case 1/3
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2 years
Behind the Rajapaksha's rise to power is the @adaderana + Triad media mechanism + two founders (Dilith/Varuni) For everything we are going through and experiencing right now they are EQUALLY (or even more) responsible than the regime itself. I hope we don't forget. Links below ↘️
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5 years ago I got a letter from my high school barring from ever entering school premises because I was too #rebellious today I got into #Harvard Ed so that I can ensure others like me have a better story to tell. This for my Amma and Thathi who never completed college themselves
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6 years
@MaithripalaS - I am a Sri Lankan woman studying at Oxford while working at a bar. In case you didn't know the women in your country are independent enough to make decisions for themselves. A young girl was gang raped 2 days back - focus on the real issues. Your sexism can wait.
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2 years
50 days strong. 50 days of love. 50 days of resistance. ✊ #GoHomeGota2022
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2 years
Pressure your elected representatives. #GoHomeGota
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2 years
The sisters and priests have been up at #GotaGoGama since the attack, watching over, talking to folks and bringing a sense of calm. Grateful.
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During a hiring interview today, the engineer I was interviewing literally goes "oh I thought you were just an employee interviewing on behalf of your boss" Like his male brain just refused to internalize that I was indeed the boss.
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2 years
දවස් 50ක් ගිහින්, අරගලයෙන් මොනවද උනේ කියලා අහන සිගිත්තනට
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2 years
People's Stage back up! Stronger than before.
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We will rebuild GGG. ✊
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2 years
Please don't let the aunties and uncles tell y'all how to protest. You can have love, joy, laughter, camaraderie, creativity, AND protest. Our generation is about reimagining how things were done. ✊
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2 years
I would like him to sacrifice himself. To like the sea
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NewsWire 🇱🇰
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"Prime Minister ready to sacrifice his position" Senior Minister
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Kavindya Thennakoon
3 years
Also banks + microfinance insts.are loan sharks in institutional form. Wish we had better alternatives. More on how banks like the Rural Development Bank (RDB) and Sanasa deliberately miscommunicate interest rates to those in desperate circumstances later. Now we celebrate 🥂
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1 year
A friend of mine just sent me this 🥹 with a note that said "Look at you!! All over the science center" Never thought of myself as someone who will break into tech or have my face in the '!!science!!' center of all places. If you can see it, you can be it :)
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
Melanie is one of the most driven, dedicated and selfless environmental activists I know. Today she was arrested for exercising her right to protest. @RW_UNP you are an insecure child! #ReleaseThem
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2 years
Two incredible lawyers supported @A_Bandara94 and Dilan today during their CID inquiry - Thilini and @IsharaMadhu ✊ Ishara, you're a force of nature.
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අපි ජීවිතේ ගොඩක් දේවල් කරන්නේ, අම්මලාව සතුටු කරන්න. මේ පවුලෙ කවුරුත් නැතුව ගිය තුන්වෙනි Graduation එක. ලෝකෙ වෙනස් කරපු අරගල හුඟක්, පටන් ගන්නෙ පන්ති කාමරවල. එවා ගැන ම�� කියලා දුන්නේ අම්මා. අම්මා කවදහරි දවසක කැම්පස් එක බලන්න එයි. ඒ දවස එනකන්, මේක පරිස්සම් කරලා තියාගෙන ඉන්නවා 🧡
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Kavindya Thennakoon
1 year
This is the Sri Lanka I want - one where politicians present their resumes - qualifications, track records, and impact and ask voters to make an informed choice! @Chathurangaab 👏👏
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2 years
12 protestors were arrested outside the parliament. We send people to parliament, we pay their salaries and when we express our displeasure you arrest them right outside the very complex that is supposed to represent us. @sajithpremadasa @HarshadeSilvaMP intervene
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2 years
Ah nice! Derana + Dilith have already started their #namalbaby campaign. I am sure Triad is knee deep trying to build a brand out of absolute nothing.
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Ada Derana
2 years
President, govt should’ve been more open about plans for the country - Namal Read more:
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2 years
Yesterday, Jehan walked miles under the blistering heat so that WE can see a free and just tomorrow. Today, he wakes up inside a jail cell. Now it's OUR turn to walk for him. #ReleaseThem
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2 years
. @GotabayaR - නන්දසේන, ඇයි ඔච්චර බය? දිට්ඨ ධම්ම වේදනීයේ දෙන එවා පොලියත් එකක්ම තමයි දෙන්නේ. තව හයියෙන් දුවන්න නන්දේ
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Since @RajapaksaNamal seems to be picking from a sample of 'unqualified friends' should we crowdsource a list of accomplished, qualified young people from #SL who have a track record of driving action in the spaces of youth-focused/led development. Maybe he just doesn't know 💁‍♀️
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Namal appoints Iraj, Tehani as directors to NYSC
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2 years
This is how @GotabayaR celebrates his b'day today by sending hordes of armed troops towards the peaceful protestors at #GGG If there is anything you can do as a citizen now is to voice your dissent, come to #GGG /public space near you & stand on the right side of justice
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Imagine being so morally bankrupt that you open a 'training academy' using a bunch of rogues, men who've falsified their academic records, white collar criminals, racists, and flag bearers for disinformation that cost us lives - to.. train the next generation of... leaders!
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Sri Lankans who turned a blind eye to multi-million dollar white collar criminals, tax fraud, misappropriation of public funds, state-sponsored killings, war crimes, and much else, have thus discovered the earth-shattering, mind-bending case of a woman giving the 🖕
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. @sequoia are you okay with this? Portfolio companies - are YOU okay with this? Surely you have some moral compass.
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Omar El-Ayat
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The “south is having the time of its life” is in reference to a group of white students heckling a pro-Palestinian black student, including “monkey-chanting”
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Anuruddha & Dilan have been summoned to the CID in yet another coordinated move by the regime to curtail the voice of protestors. I have seen the work they have both done to mobilize, educate & build a sense of civic responsibility. Why is @GotabayaR shuddering Stand with them✊
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At this point @SpaceX 's #starlink could really help #SriLanka not just given the ongoing social media blockout by the state but for future access to critical information. @elonmusk
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2 years
9th April we flooded the streets with hope 9th May we protected the country through restraint 9th June we carried the struggle through resilience 9th July we will claim our victory through peace The beauty of the Aragalaya lives on.
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2 years
Sometimes, I wish I made this shit up
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4 years
@amilaik is a fraud - MIT just verified with me that there are no records pertaining to his name. @MobitelSriLanka @GotabayaR @RajapaksaNamal @colombochamber @RedCross @ViyathmagaSL have given numerous board/advisory positions to a scammer& never bothered to verify credentials
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Had to break the unfortunate news to a Sri Lankan aunty today - that it was indeed my lunch and not a baby.
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2 years
What's happening at the parliament is a sickening power play to misuse the people's rightful anger towards an occupation that is destructive and counter productive. This is what Ranil and the regime needs. Don't fall prey to this.
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. @GotabayaR you're literally afraid of a Facebook group, that you got a young citizen activist arrested! Murder is nothing new to you, so we're watching you now. @UNSriLanka @SingerHanaa @CanHCSriLanka @amnesty - I hope your eyes are on this.
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🧡✊From MTV's makeup room to Galle Face - grateful for female solidarity.
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2 years
Johnney Johnney Yes Papa Cleaning Laundry YES PAPA
@BuduMalli
Budu℠
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Well done @AdaDerana_24 @tvderana impressive dollar talk. Presenter needs a good beach party show with ISIS around. Who’s script is this? මොනාද බං මේ 💩 වැඩ? Protest එක අන්තවාදීන් එක්ක කරන beach party එකක් ලූ. TV Station එකත් විගණනය කරන්න වෙයි වගේ නේද?
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Just realized @CeoSri is actually satire! I mean imagine featuring a dude who became Chief of Staff of his daddy's office as a #CEO .
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@GotabayaR සිංහලෙනුත් කියලා, ඉංගිරිසියෙනුත් කියලා, තමුසෙට තේරුම් නැති උනාට දෙමළෙනුත් කියලා, බැරිම තැන සංඥා භාෂාවෙනුත් කිව්වා! You're a failed president. Resign. There's nothing else the people are demanding for, besides your resignation.
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There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for. Always. 23 years later, I hope you're smiling and laughing out loud as you always have.
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පාන්දර 3.00 යි. අනොරා වැස්ස, ඒත් කවුරුත් අයින් උනේ නැහැ. වැස්ස වැඩි වෙන්න, සද්දේත් වැඩි උනා. @GotabayaR ඔයා කෝ 🤸 #GotaGoHome2022 #HorugoGama
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Just this evening - over 80 individuals have been arrested, under allegations of destroying public property/inciting violence. Many of these are peaceful protestors who set up local chapters of the #GGG in their communities. @McKinnonDavid @USAmbSL @AusHCSriLanka @UKinSriLanka
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. @RajapaksaNamal is this your family fleeing the country on our tax money?
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Shame on you @RW_UNP !
@exfrotezter
Marlon Ariyasinghe 🇵🇸🍉
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මුන්ට මොනාද මේ වෙලා තියෙන්නේ... Sri Lankan police are completely ill-equipped to handle this type of situation. We have seen this time and time again. They escalate, then respond with violence and brute force. #PoliceBrutalityLK #SriLanka
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2015-2021 6 years later. I guess we have the 'no-aging' gene. @GIVENALITY 💛
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මෙච්චර තමයි, තව මදි වෙලා තිබුනෙ
@HiruNewsEnglish
Hiru News English
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Dhammika Perera, says that he is ready to take up a ministerial post for a period of 6 months to implement 100 projects to bring foreign Currency into the country. #HiruEnglishNews #TruthAtAllCosts #Hirunews #HiruSinhalaNews #LKA #Srilanka #EconomicCrisisLK #crisislk
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My love story with fried rice 🍛 A story 🧵 When I was in 3rd grade, Amma and I lived in an annex in Maharagama. In front of our house was a record bar (dear reader, this was the wonderful era of DVDs) so we had Victor Ratnayake + early BNS playing nonstop. One day they vacated
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📢 ජුලි 9 - කොළඹට එන්න #EndGame #GoHomeGota
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I was really proud of our tech community yesterday for mobilizing and bringing their diverse talents and geeky spin to the people's protest. Transparency + Data + Information is the power citizens need.
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
Hilarious how Mahinda Rajapaksha's secretary dude is so invested in the Aragalaya activists whereabouts and funding sources. Resharing a better list for his 'investigations' Where is Gota hiding? CSN cover-up? Divi Naguma scam? Saving Hambantota? Gower scam? Who killed Lasantha?
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
කතාකරන පින්තූර
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Kavindya Thennakoon
4 years
Nearly 3 years later what I can tell you is to NEVER let anyone tell you that women can't do it all - The bar girl
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Kavindya Thennakoon
6 years
@MaithripalaS - I am a Sri Lankan woman studying at Oxford while working at a bar. In case you didn't know the women in your country are independent enough to make decisions for themselves. A young girl was gang raped 2 days back - focus on the real issues. Your sexism can wait.
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
Kids develop very strong mental models around values and priorities during their early years. Imagine intentionally sending your kids to be in the midst of criminals.
@Media_NR
Namal Rajapaksa Media
2 years
The Ice Cream Dansala organized by the Carlton Pre-School in Tangalle, on the occasion of the Poson Poya, was held today (15) under the patronage of Madam Shiranthi Rajapaksa with the participation of Hon. Parliamentarian @RajapaksaNamal .
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
Please tell me how this isn't a conflict of interest. How can we have a member of Parliament, directly impacting the legislature with extensive financial stake across several key industries in LKA? Resigning from a board means absolutely nothing, if you still hold financial stake
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
මේ අම්මා ඊයෙ මට දාපු මෙසේජ් එක. එයා දැරනියගල ඉඳන් පාන්දර පහට, එනවා galle face. ✊ මම හෙට උදේ 9යට, SF ඉදන් Los Angeles යනවා, එහෙ තියන උද්ඝෝෂණයට. අම්මා යනවා Gota එලවන්න. මම යනවා මනෝජ්ට ලැජ්ජ නැද්ද කියලා අහන්න 😂 ඔයත් පුළුවන් විදිහකට, හරි තැන හිටගන්න 🧡 #EndGame #GoHomeGota
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Kavindya Thennakoon
3 years
Hi! I am homesick and would appreciate some pictures of #Srilanka 💙 or anything that reminds you of home: Dogs, sunset, tea, food, the coconut trees, polos, Kiribath. I'll go first: this is me and Amma in Puttalam after eating a heavy plate of crabs. Haven't seen her in 1.5years
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
ගෙදර පල නන්දේ සෙරෙප්පුවෙන් දෙන්නේ වැඩි විස්තර අද හෙටම ! #EndGameOn #GoHomeGota
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Kavindya Thennakoon
3 years
Colombo's finest @ParkStreetMews . Colombo 7 comes with free immunity. Just now I got off a call with Amma talking about how the PHI in our area is insanely overworked. Public officers like @paladheniya are putting their lives at risk every day & this is what the 5% does. Arrest!
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
I give solid solutions y'all. Also this 'send back dollars' is a complete Rajapaksha propaganda so just don't waste bandwidth
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
This is how it all started. A small group of citizens who gathered by the road, that spread across the whole country. The Aragalaya is not just at Galleface. It's not some obscure institution that will do the work for us. Let's begin again in our junctions, road sides and offices
@Welikumbura
Prasad Welikumbura
2 years
Protest against the food & other necessities prise hike at Kohuwala Junction. #lka #SriLanka #GoHomeRanil #GoHomeGota #CostOfLivingCrisis #EconomicCrisisLK #ProtestLK #අරගලයටජය
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Kavindya Thennakoon
4 years
If there is one tweet this year that didn't age well - this would be it. Sometimes your arrogance and ignorance combined can cost a life
@YRanaraja
Yasiru
4 years
Relax kiddo,no need of panic,the game survived Asian flu in 1957(2million died) Hongkong flu in 1968 (1million died) Spanish flu in 1918 (50 million died) plus two world wars since 1897. #COVID19 in Sri Lanka with 8 cases should stop the oldest game in the world? Maybe Yes or No.
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
Amma took her first ever flight yesterday! We spent all of today looking at art, strolling through parks and drinking tea. If you told 15 year old Kavi that this would ever be possible - she would have flipped. 💕
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Kavindya Thennakoon
14 days
Stanford just set up camp! We will not stop. We will not rest
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Kavindya Thennakoon
4 years
The girl who was raped and killed in Sri Lanka yesterday was just 17. She was on her way to get a new uniform for school. There you have it - our great 'Buddhist' nation. I often wonder where we went wrong? I have always believed that education is the answer but sometimes
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
This is clearly an organized state-led campaign to blame both their delayed decision to go to the IMF and their disorganized response plan on the people and the protest. We've fallen numerous times for these Ad agency x Regime led campaigns - let's be mindful at least now. 1/2
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
Not the least surprised that Ranil W is targeting @ShanakiyanR , one of the very few MPs giving voice to the general public. He is articulate, to the point and doesn't mince his words and the establishment is rightfully rattled.
@NewsWireLK
NewsWire 🇱🇰
2 years
Ranil demands inquiry against Shanakiyan
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Kavindya Thennakoon
3 years
. @KeeleUniversity this is your Professor of Psychiatry putting his name against the following headline - "people who post half-naked pictures have a mental disorder" on a national newspaper - is this the kind of regressive, blatant misinformation that you teach your students?
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Kavindya Thennakoon
3 years
Our PHI tested positive for COVID and we just need all the prayers and anything positive/good in the world to get him back to health. He worked tirelessly putting his life at risk, bringing dry rations to patients, arranging ambulances for the sick and making sure
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Kavindya Thennakoon
1 year
How it started. How it's going 😂
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
Your monthly reminder that South Asia is not just India. India is a country And no I am not Indian
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
Not a single Rajapaksha supporter who is responsible for attacking #gotagogama on the 9th + inciting violence has been arrested to date. This too in the midst of ample photographic and video evidence. @RW_UNP will also have blood in his hands if he sits around and watches this
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Kavindya Thennakoon
3 years
Thank you for paving the path and for cheering me on every step of the way 💙 🎉 #firstgen
@Antonia_AMD
Antonia DeMeo
3 years
A Master of Science never looked better. 🥳Congratulations @kavindya_T on your graduation from @StanfordEd ! 👩🏽‍🎓🎉❤️ @Stanford #Classof2021
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Kavindya Thennakoon
1 year
We always get our priorities right!
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
Institute of Chartered Accounts - are you off your damn mind to platform the very man who built, ran, and promoted a cult personality around Gota during the midst of the #peoplesprotest . Used his channels to spew fake news & racism, & then made a fine buck out of antigen testing?
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Kavindya Thennakoon
5 years
It was 207 of us. Not them. WE were attacked today. Our home. We've risen through terrible times and we will rise yet again - stronger with love
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Kavindya Thennakoon
2 years
Reunited ❤️ with my principessa
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Kavindya Thennakoon
4 years
3% of women smoke why is he pontificating on this. How has smoking become a women's issue? Why aren't you talking about women 'dying' of sexual assault, unsafe abortions, poor women's health @HPBSriLanka can you hire better doctors & focus on your job.
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Kavindya Thennakoon
9 months
They steal from us and still can't even pay their electricity bill. This is embarrassing even for criminals
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Kavindya Thennakoon
5 years
I want to take prints of this & email to all my racist family friends plus tag everyone on this space who contributed towards the 'infertility' induced hysteria and racism but I won't coz it's petty. But then again I can be petty.
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Kavindya Thennakoon
3 years
Thank you to each and everyone of you for the love and wishes. For those who shared stories about your incredible mothers who braved the unimaginable. You are heard 💕 hope we can create a tomorrow that is fairer and more just.
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