by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 1, 2020 | DailyFT
In a far more carefree world, today would have been full of light-hearted laughter. COVID-19 has put paid to all the pranks. Even Comedy Central has grown dull with heavy commentary on the mess world politicians are making of a global pandemic. The exceptions to the...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 25, 2020 | DailyFT
LESSONS IN THE TIME OF CORONA – what centuries of colonisation couldn’t do, COVID-19 has taught the (former Ceylonese) native to do: standing as (modern Sri Lankan) citizens are now doing; practising social distancing and respecting personal space like never before in...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 19, 2020 | DailyFT
They say that character is who you are when no one’s looking. Maybe it’s also what you do and say when everyone’s watching you. Perhaps the president was not aware that all eyes were on him. Not only that of his electorate or that of the once and future prime...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 18, 2020 | DailyFT
POSEUR – passionate – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ is a well-known novel by Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel prize-winning Colombian author. It is a complex tale, cleverly weaving in divergent...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 17, 2020 | DailyFT
A funny thing happened on the way to the Roy-Tho. The WHO declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. So there – one would imagine – went ‘the’ Big Match. Any sensible citizen with half a pint of civic consciousness or a social conscience would do...
