by Wijith DeChickera | May 20, 2022 | DailyFT
SOME DAY, when our crying’s done… Until then, Sri Lanka shows the world how to wear a smile and walk in the sun – despite the deluge of disasters pouring down like rain… Instead of the justice we so vociferously demand and so richly deserve...
by Wijith DeChickera | May 13, 2022 | DailyFT
A TROJAN HORSE IN TANDEM – reversed?There are few words that fall more explosively into the wells of consciousness than speech after long silence. That the most recent televised misadventures came as something of an anticlimax is cause for much relief. The unkindest...
by Wijith DeChickera | May 12, 2022 | DailyFT
APOCALYPSE NOW? – Armageddon can be avoided by carefully nurturing another type of flame! – Pix by Ruwan Walpola Sri Lanka is being reborn. Inch by painful inch at Galle Face green, which is rising from the dirty-grey ashes of reprehensible...
by Wijith DeChickera | May 6, 2022 | DailyFT
UNHOLY TRINITY – three views of what’s going on: the people continue to protest; their Parliament persists in horse-trading; the President and the Prime Minister remain agnostic to the antipathy they’ve roused in both ‘Houses’ of Parliament and homes of people ...
by Wijith DeChickera | May 4, 2022 | DailyFT
VILLAGE PEOPLE – It may take more than even a nation on the march to move the parasites out of the corridors of power… Pic by Ruwan Walpola I, like you maybe, have been blown away by what has been happening at the barricades. So much so – that between noisy marches on...
