by Wijith DeChickera | Dec 18, 2020 | DailyFT
Ready? First of all stop. Then take a deep cleansing breath. And check your pulse. Heart beating? Blood pumping? Still breathing? Congratulations – you’re alive. Still. Barely. Perhaps clinically. As the poet said:“For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as...
by Wijith DeChickera | Dec 11, 2020 | DailyFT
The so-called COVID-19 cure demonstrated that we’re living in a land of honey, if not one where the milk of human kindness has all but evaporated The days are growing shorter, the nights longer. And there is an awful finality in the air, like the last sober drunk...
by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 5, 2020 | DailyFT
A FEBRILE FANTASY – pilot whales beach themselves; while a rudderless ship runs down to a sunless sea… in the very panic that was pre-empted by our once far more rational rulers then! Now evidently gone to pot and reliant on superstition or pseudo-religion than...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 18, 2020 | DailyFT
A LAND LIKE NO OTHER – towards a truly far more inclusive pluralistic and yet peaceful inclusive nationality: not predicated on race or religion; but the reality of being bounded by an ocean of other-ness – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara There is an...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 11, 2020 | DailyFT
Imagine that you lived in a country where there was One Law. Not that this would be anything like that other salutary nation-state where there is – or is to be – One Country, One Law. But rather, it would be an overarching law that transcended and superseded all other...
