by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 1, 2022 | DailyFT
Thank you to the academy – er, academics… and professionals and business leaders: you certainly know how to pick a winner. You Chris Rock, you really do. Where there’s a Will, there’s a busy Smith or four… forging their, ugh, our...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 26, 2022 | DailyFT
HEART OF DARKNESS – a few quiet words on the blacked-out streets may do more to bring some light (in the long run) to our present plight What do you do to show you’re not happy – with the un-pretty pass we’ve come to as a people? Do you rant and...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 19, 2022 | DailyFT
VENI, VIDI, VICI – sadly, to many of his erstwhile supporters (some of whom admire him – despite, or perhaps because of, the flak on social media barrages), this translates into ‘weany, weedy and weaky’… a powerful president with a panoply of powers who has...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 17, 2022 | DailyFT
CRY, ‘HAVOC!’ – there is a tide in the affairs of the nation, which, if taken at the flood, lead on to fame… and fortune – and a fate still to be decided as far as the food-less, forex-less, fertiliser-less masses go – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara I, like you...
by Wijith DeChickera | Feb 25, 2022 | DailyFT
STONE THE CROWS – is it only a flight of fancy that in a democracy which respects its longstanding tradition of erudite statesmen, accommodation must be made for those whose argot runs more to absurdity? In a 19th Century book written by...