Ryan Joshua Mahindapala FRSA is a lawyer turned writer and educator. He is the Founder of Thinking Movement Education & Publishing.
Education
Master of Business Administration (Merit) - University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Laws (2nd Upper Class Honours) - University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Leadership
Committee Member - Association of Trade & Commerce Singapore - Enterprise Committee (2024 - Present)
Editor - Thinking Movement (2019 - Present)
Committee member - Triathlon Association of Singapore - Technical Committee (2020-2022)
Committee member - Peranakan Indian (Chitty Melaka) Association of Singapore (2020-2021)
Professional Qualifications
Admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore (May 2020)
Memberships
Singapore Academy of Law
The Royal Society of Arts, Commerce and Manufactures, United Kingdom
Association of Trade & Commerce Singapore
Speaking
Singapore Writers Festival 2023 - Ingenious Indigenous Perspectives: Relying on Cultural Wisdom
Awards
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize XLVIII
Selected publications
Books 📖
The Cempaka Guide, PICMAS [Forthcoming]
Heritage Food of the Peranakan Indians: In a Chitty Melaka Kitchen, PICMAS, 2023 [Content development, Proofreading, Distribution & Publicity]
Spottisbrough, Partridge Pub Singapore, 2021
News 📰
Develop ecosystem needed for poetry press to succeed, The Straits Times Forum Page, 10 Oct 2024
I wanted to leave the nest by age 30 to be independent — but by staying home, I ended up gaining much more, TODAYonline Gen Y Speaks, 2024
Poems 🪶
Under the Tree, there is a Shade, Borderless Journal, September 2024
A wasteland of arrows, The International Proverse Poetry Prize 2022 Anthology: Mingled Voices 7, Proverse Publishing Hong Kong, 2023
Lo hei 捞起 — Semangat Orang Chetti”, Kadamundu: The Spice Road Review, Issue 2, 2023
Untitled Haiku, The Asahi Shimbun, Nov 2023
Memories of Nenek I, II & III, Chetti Melaka: A Celebration of Diversity in Singapore, Ministry of Community, Culture & Youth (MCCY), 2022
Untitled Haiku, The Asahi Shimbun, Aug 2021
The Computer Has Decided! The Computer Has Decided!, The International Proverse Poetry Prize 2022 Anthology: Mingled Voices 7, Proverse Publishing Hong Kong, 2020
Short Stories ✍🏽
Corridor of Memories, Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore, Vol. 23 No. 3 July 2024
Articles 📃
MBA project: looking through the kaleidoscope, Strathclyde Business School Blog, 2023
Small steps, big dreams, The Singapore Law Gazette, 2022
The magical world of data through the eyes of an MBA student, Strathclyde Business School Blog, 2020
Doing an MBA in the time of COVID-19, Strathclyde Business School Blog, 2020
Write like a data scientist, The Writing Cooperative, 2020
Become a better writer: Do an MBA, The Writing Cooperative, 2020
Tips for writing interview-based articles through e-mail, The Writing Cooperative, 2020
What to do with your unfinished drafts, The Writing Cooperative, 2020
What to do when you are facing writer’s boredom”, The Writing Cooperative, 2020
Give yourself direction and lead a better life, Ascent Publication, 2020
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