by Wijith DeChickera | Feb 4, 2022 | DailyFT
CRY, “FREEDOM!” – in the heart of darkness at noon with power cuts being threatened as much as their immediacy denied, plus an enforced embargo on the spirit (literally) of liberty, the people of Sri Lanka may feel they have little to celebrate as their nation-state...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jan 14, 2022 | DailyFT
DOWN TO A SUNLESS SEA – driven though we may be by multiplex contingencies like never before, shall we forget the common humanity that connects and challenges us, as an island race? I love the beach. There is no other place like it. Sea! Sand! Sun!...
by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 26, 2021 | DailyFT
WAITING FOR GODOT – while the Church only too often is as much a club as is the State, protecting and protesting on behalf of only its own, there is a feeling that there are not nearly enough citizens at the barricades these days, with the nation at large...
by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 19, 2021 | DailyFT
DESPERATE TIMES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES – between a Government politicising the pandemic to stifle democratic dissent under the guise of maintaining law and order to protect public health and safety – and a political opposition irresponsibly...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 11, 2021 | DailyFT
REVELATIONS – history is not what happened: rather, it is what – and how – we choose to remember; but if we forget or opt to recall wrong, history as we know it may well be at an end Where were you when the bombs went off on Easter Sunday...
