Hiranya Peiris
speaker
454 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 May
Hiranya Peiris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
And my father worked on big hydroelectric projects.
Yeah, she's so good at so many different things, but she's very humble about it.
And that is a quality that I really aspire to.
I have a particular image in my mind of accompanying my mother when I was a small child to a building site where she was supervising a very large team of men constructing a bridge that she had designed.
And she was very elegantly dressed in a sari and she was very dignified.
She was clearly in charge, but she wasn't shouting.
She wasn't projecting dominance.
It was a different kind of leadership.
And I really connected with that image.
That's right.
I remember just being completely transfixed by these really vast horizons that he opened up, both space and time, how the universe connected to us as people.
And that really was magical.
That's right.
My father went on an international trip and he brought back a small telescope for me.
And Sri Lanka had very, very dark skies.
Just from my backyard, we could see, for example, Saturn's rings.
It was the first time I saw Jupiter's moons and I remember projecting solar flares and sunspots onto a sheet of white paper and looking at that.
Yeah, it was a great time.
That's right.
There was a kind of floating book ship, which came to the harbour in Colombo.
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