by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 21, 2024 | DailyFT
Vote wisely, and well then, with an eye on the general elections to follow – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara A radical point has been made often enough: It is an election like no other in our nation’s history.On one hand, the first election since the flaring up and fading...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 14, 2024 | DailyFT
We can only trust and hope that an electorate that has repeatedly suffered from the fallout of racial politicking that burned towns and cremated the dead against their religious convictions has learned the lessons of history and won’t provoke the fates by any attempt...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 7, 2024 | DailyFT
The ‘Red Brigade’ has been of late the target of a series of vendettas on social media How many times does the JVP have to, hat in hand, apologise for its mayhem that laid waste to a nation before the plantation community in particular, whose...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 31, 2024 | DailyFT
Is it the sad sorry case for the sake of a more sterling democracy in our present state that the UNP and the SJB are not much more than each other’s mirror image – save that one is nicer to know and the other statelier to look at? Or are there deeply differentiated...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 24, 2024 | DailyFT
Is it bearable, this oppression by reactionary elites who have captured the state, for the sake of ostensible stability in the short term… even if exploring the alternatives – and there is a raft of these – means facing and overcoming the ‘fear...
