by Wijith DeChickera | May 2, 2022 | DailyFT
The ‘Struggle’ of the few on behalf of the many is in its umpteenth day/week/month today. Its exact duration to date depends on when you start counting the ‘People’s Quiet Revolution’ as having begun. And the wave upon wave of the ‘Occupy Galle Face’ movement is but...
by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 9, 2022 | DailyFT
STANDING – and withstanding Like never before, politics as it is practised in Sri Lanka has come under scrutiny by virtually all its stakeholders acting at the same time. What began in a darkened suburb as a candlelit protest against untenable power...
by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 7, 2022 | DailyFT
ONCE MORE INTO THE BREACH – while ‘big match’ energy and paparé-band millennial vibes fuel that feel-good feeling at the protests, feeling is that civil society must protect the essence of an apolitical, peaceful, organic grassroots movement that has so far best...
by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 5, 2022 | DailyFT
TREND apolitical I and my ‘village’ of islanders of all ilks did not go to Mirihana (‘Gotaland’). But we did conduct a peaceful protest at the top of our road in the environs of Nugegoda (Mahinda’s erstwhile stamping grounds for politically charged rallies) on...
by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 2, 2022 | DailyFT
ANGER or ‘extremism’? A funny thing happened on the way to the president’s residence. The angry crowd found that the man they had asked to ‘go home’ had, in fact, acceded to their courteous request. He was in situ. It was one of the few promises that our head of...
