by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 26, 2019 | DailyFT
AND ALSO BREAK DOWN: While terrorism breaks down to destroy, in the wake of Easter Sunday&rsquos carnage in Sri Lanka – it seems that our island-nation must analyse (‘intelligence’ fiascos), breakdown (establishment barriers and political...
by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 25, 2019 | DailyFT
I AM THAT MAN: No doubt many mandarins and prelates are thinking (and saying, by playing the blame game) that they’re better than the other whom they pass the buck to. There is, therefore, a greater need than ever before for Sri Lankans of all walks in life to look in...
by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 19, 2019 | DailyFT
ANOTHER CHURCH IS BURNING! Not Notre Dame. But a Christian worship centre at the heart of the Dry Zone. And April is the cruellest month when political apathy is compounded by police ignorance Trial by fire is not a new ordeal to Christian community. It predates...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 15, 2019 | DailyFT
LEANING TOGETHER: As far as the larger polity is concerned, the political super-class as a whole comprises mainly straw men. So is it time for a new generation of genuinely national-minded leaders who can respond to a land at a civilisational cross-roads? Time...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 8, 2019 | DailyFT
FALSE GOSPEL: Man may be a religious animal. But only the ostensibly pious seem to prevail in unholy politics! And shame be to him or her who thinks evil of such impious hypocrisy as invoking the blessings of gods and guardian deities to cover a multitude of...
