by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 19, 2019 | DailyFT
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE LIGHTS CAME ON AT THE LOTUS TOWER? Wait, what? Are you being serious? Do you mean in the midst of our sea of troubles – from addressing poverty to abolishing presidencies – a singular erection has stolen their thunder? (I promise not to make...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 12, 2019 | DailyFT
Meanwhile, in other news… THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE: those who make things happen; those who watch while things happen; and those who wonder what happened! The first of these are perhaps evenly split between the best and worst of them… while most of us fall...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 6, 2019 | DailyFT
ERASE THE VILE THING – To be fair by the UNP, at least they’re mouthing the ‘right’ platitudes. To be fair by the SLPP, they’re not deceiving anyone by making their sentiments about 18A known, nor their hope in presidentialism. To be fair...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 5, 2019 | DailyFT
THE ONLY CONSTANT? – They say that the more things change, the more they stay the same. But one or two courageous champions of genuine transformation would make a world of difference in a tried and tested political game that has failed the polity time and again....
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 28, 2019 | DailyFT
ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM – Not quite united! But still national enough to be the best bet for a pluralistic inclusive democracy? And if the polity proves willing to forgive past scams and evergreen arrogance especially after the coup – only the palace coup now...
