Posted on January 27th, 2021
Rohan Abeygunawardena ACMA, CGMA.
When I was a kid while helping with homework, my mother told
‘’look at this eraser, it is made in England, but do you know this is made out
of rubber from our country?’’ That was in early sixties. Then in mid-sixties my
father showed me a newspaper heading ‘’Soviet Union to build a Tyre factory in
Kelaniya.’’ Since I was fascinated by motorcars, although our family couldn’t
afford one, I thought ‘’how nice if I get an opportunity to work in that
factory.’’
I got that opportunity. In March 1982 I was appointed as the
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