Article: Brain drain nobody seems to care

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Daily Mirror
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November 24, 2008
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Colombo, Nov. 24 -- I was at the graduation ceremony of the prestigious Post Graduate Institute of Management a few months ago. The new batch of MBA's were graduating. This is an important and exciting day. Photographs are taken that will forever adorn the wall of the sitting room. Kids will look admiringly at their dads and mums achievement, and of course the proud grand-parents will have a group picture that will be shown to all visitors.

But lo and behold, a large number were not there to receive the graduation scroll and to take those photographs. Before the graduation ceremony they had all run away to Australia, New Zealand, ...

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