by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 16, 2022 | DailyFT
TOUGH POISE – in purely psychological terms, it’s a pose to conceal insecurity; introduce the paradigm of politics into the stance, and it becomes a position that’s violated with impunity A funny thing happened on the way to the forum....
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 26, 2022 | DailyFT
DRACONIAN – the Damocles sword of the PTA The acid test of a ‘National Security Act’ is that it must make the nation more secure. It is the same with a ‘Prevention of Terrorism Act’, in that it must go more than some distance...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 6, 2022 | DailyFT
The polity, the political Opposition and the people’s movement of protest are caught between the rock of an implacable regime that won’t rest until it has its pound of flesh and the hard pace of possibly worsening hardships if the IMF hatches...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 2, 2022 | DailyFT
‘IDPs’ – internally-displaced protestors Much ink has been spilled over the people’s struggle movement (‘Aragalaya’) that has brought popular sovereignty to the fore like never before perhaps. Most of it has focussed on...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 14, 2022 | DailyFT
RED-LETTER DAY FOR REPUBLICANISM – but beware the bloody excesses of the rebellion in the wrong hands Today, 14 July 2022, marks the 233rd anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille, which iconic event in 1789 triggered the French Revolution...
