by Wijith DeChickera | Dec 5, 2025 | DailyFT
Often our resilience is merely the nihilistic vein that runs deep in drowned villages and flooded towns showing up as a resigned adjustment to an otherwise unbearable reality. It didn’t take long for them to show through the velvet glove. Arrogance amongst the...
by Wijith DeChickera | Dec 3, 2025 | DailyFT
Volunteerism at its best – Sri Lankans cut across communal lines to stand in solidarity with their fellow citizens in their direst hours – Pix courtesy Aman Ashraff Ditwah has left. Chaos reigns. Yet there is life. Amidst the carnage, confusion and...
by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 28, 2025 | DailyFT
It is a crying shame on us all that more than a quarter of the citizenry are still finding it difficult and even impossible to make ends meet. Not even the deflationary milieu that we are slowly but surely coming out of has made a difference to the poor. In the wake...
by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 21, 2025 | DailyFT
The other ironies that abound run the gamut from discredited mainstream parties that were once in Government and only recently rejected by the people – not once, but no less than three times in successive polls – protesting against alleged corruption by...
by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 15, 2025 | DailyFT
Was it amiable derring-do or dismaying amateurishness that led the president to propose in Budget 2026 supporting the marginalised plantations community with a monthly two-hundred-rupee boost from state coffers? Today we are in danger of descending from being a...
