by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 19, 2019 | DailyFT
ISLAND IN THE SUN WITH NO SHADOW OF THE HEAD AT NOON: From the intimacy of Mother Lanka’s many womb-like comfort zones (religion, politics, general philosophy in life); it is time to grow up from being insular to bravely facing the intrigue of an...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 4, 2019 | DailyFT
PLAYING GAMES ANCIENT AND MODERN: In ancient Babylon, the birthplace of ‘an eye for an eye’, society was divided into three classes: superior, commoner, and slave. And only closer examination of their chief lawgiver Hammurabi’s motives helps us to discern a...
by Wijith DeChickera | May 31, 2019 | DailyFT
GAMES: Stark All good things must come to an end. Good Governance, ‘Avengers,’ ‘Game of Thrones’. While the first was not very good and the second went mostly well but was bad in bits with a sad endgame, the last of these got ugly in the season and series...
by Wijith DeChickera | May 24, 2019 | DailyFT
“AVENGERS, ASSEMBLE!” We’ve followed the antics of our caped crusaders for many moons now and the cliff-hanger final instalment of the franchise brought it all to a head… In real life, however, the anti-climax to which our powers that be have...
by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 29, 2019 | DailyFT
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE: Many players strut and fret their petty hour on the country’s national stage. While a people torn between peace and justice act with restraint more often than not under constraints whose shackles they thought had been cast off for almost a...
