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Hiyal Biyagamage

Aloko Udapadi: The Making of an Epic

Chathra Weeraman’s Aloko Udapadi not only marks his arrival as a filmmaker, but also puts its roots down in the troubled Sri Lankan film industry as a piece of pioneering film production.

Tharindu Madushanka

How We Developed the Hiveage iOS App

In this second article of a series on our flagship product Hiveage, we offer you an inside look at the various engineering decisions that went into developing the iOS app, starting from the language

Prabhath Sirisena

How We Designed the Hiveage iOS App

After making our flagship product accessible on any device, the next step was to go native on mobile. In this article we discuss how the design for the Hiveage iOS app came to be.

Prabhath Sirisena

Working at an Early-Stage Startup in Sri Lanka

All the first employees of our new venture Vgo came from corporate backgrounds. None of them had worked at a startup before. The entire Vesess team, on the other hand, had never worked at

Sunara Begum

Sunara Begum—A Journey of Ascension

Spending one month on an Island surrounded by the great ocean, I saw that the people really are a piece of that constant flow; they in turn seem to embody a great sense of fluidity within the

Prabhath Sirisena

Warrantless Wiretapping Legal in Sri Lanka

If you are being investigated for a “computer crime” in Sri Lanka, a police officer can—without a warrant, at his discretion—seize your computer data and intercept and collect your

Prabhath Sirisena

Coca-Cola and Sri Lankan Water Stories

The old water stories and myths of Sri Lanka arose from a culture that had a symbiotic relationship with the rivers and lakes. The new stories that we create reflect the modern dynamics of this

Prabhath Sirisena

Coca-Cola’s Oil Spill and Sri Lanka’s Impotence

Few things are so cliche as an oil spill by a large multinational corporation in a third-world country. Except, perhaps, when that country is yours. When that oil is in the very water that you

Prabhath Sirisena

Adapt or Die: Surviving the Multinational Threat

In today’s turbulent business environment, organisations need to be able to adapt quickly to ensure continued success. Our local services will have to make swift improvements or risk losing