Essay: Shanaka Fernando
The weird and wonderful life of the forest unfolded in front of our eyes. The mosquitoes are so large they are an impediment to their own defence. Whack , I got one. Whack, whack. Whack. The sun was surrendering to a cacophony of jungle noises. What a day. Chased by a rogue elephant with ears wildly flapping, trunk raised, like a possessed voodoo dancer, we dive into our car and zoom across a flooded bridge, praying the car is on the right trajectory. Initially, I had waded across the bridge in knee-deep water only to realise that the log floating towards me was a three-metre crocodile. Luckily, the car, with Madonna&#x;s Like a Virgin blaring out of the radio, followed me closely, and scared it away.
As we continued into the forest we saw an errant baby elephant brought back into line by its mother with a few thwacks on its rump from a branch in her trunk; a leopard idling on a tree, and a raven fighting a tarantula. This was the Yala National Park in Sri Lanka &#x; I was showing off my country of birth to my visiting in-laws from Australia.
We arrived at our safari bungalow to the sounds of the Indian Ocean and its thundering waves. The winds w
Lentil as Anything | Shanaka Fernando with Greg Hill |
Everybody deserves a place at the table
“When money loses its value,
the goodwill and kindness we extend
to each other will emerge as the ultimate
and most sustainable currency of exchange.”
Shanaka Fernando is often hailed as a modern-day revolutionary. As the founder of the Lentil As Anything community restaurants in Melbourne that feed thousands every week, he advocates a unique business and life perspective.
Entrancingly honest and refreshingly candid, Shanaka’s memoir hints at the roots of his early social awakening with tales of a s childhood in Sri Lanka. From his upbringing within an eccentric extended family living in a residential compound populated with a throng of memorable characters, we accompany Shanaka on his travels from Australia to Asia to South America and back as he explores new ways of living his life.
Shanaka’s example of what can be achieved based on an inclusive ‘people-first’ philosophy will inspire, challenge and provoke insights and questions that are undeniably worthy of attention.
"Fernando is one of those rare pioneers who are prepared to liv
Shanaka Fernando is often hailed as a modern-day revolutionary. As the founder of the Lentil As Anything community restaurants in Melbourne that feed thousands every week, he advocates a unique business and life perspective. Entrancingly honest and refreshingly candid, Shanaka's memoir hints at the roots of his early social awakening with tales of a s childhood in Sri Lanka. From his upbringing with an eccentric extended family living in a residential compound populated with a throng of memorable characters, we accompany Shanaka on his travels from Australia to Asia to South America and back as he explores new ways of living his life. Shanaka's example of what can be achieved based on an inclusive 'people-first' philosophy will inspire, challenge and provoke insights and questions that are undeniably worthy of attention. --Back cover. In my Ravaya column (in Sinhala) this week, I write about Lentil As Anything, the uncommon restaurant chain in Melbourne, Australia. It has no prices on the menu, no cashier, no cash register. Customers are invited to dine first &#; and pay what they think their meal was worth. This pay-as-you-feel approach has survived a dozen years, earning its founder Shanaka Fernando honours and accolades. I wrote about this topic in English in my Ceylon Today column on 23 Jan වෙළඳපොල සමාජයේ හැම භාණ්ඩයකට හා සේවාවකට ම මිළක් නියම කැරෙනවා. එය නිෂ්පාදකයා හෝ අලෙවිකරුවා හෝ විසින් ගන්නා තීරණයක්. භාණ්ඩයේ වටිනාකම, පාරිභෝගික ඉල්ලූම, තරගකාරී සපයන්නන් එයට දී තිබෙන මිළ ආදී සාධක සැළකිල්ලට ගෙන මිළ නියම කිරීම සිරිතයි. එහෙත් මේ ප්රවාහයට එරෙහිව, පාරිභෝගිකයාගේ අභිමතය පරිදි ‘සාධාරණ මිළක්’ ගෙවන්නට නිදහස දෙන අවස්ථාද ඉඳහිට හමු වනවා. අපේ බොහෝ පාරම්පරික ආයුර්වේද වෛද්යවරුන් රෝගීන්ට ප්රතිකාර කිරීමෙන් පසු එයට සංඛ්යාත්මක ගාස්තුවක් ඉල්ලා සිටියේ නැහැ. රෝගියාට දරා ගත හැකි හා සාධාරණ යයි සිතෙන මුදලක්, එසේ නොමැති නම් ද්රව්යමය පරිත්යාගයක් කරනු ලැබුවා. එහෙත් මේ උතුම් පිළිවෙත ධනවාදී ආර්ථික ක්රමය ස්ථාපිත වූ පාරිභෝගික සමාජයේ වෙනත් ගනුදෙනුවලට සාර්ථකව යොදා ගත හැකි ද? එසේ කළහොත් බංකොලොත් නොවී ව්යාපාරයක් කොප
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