by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 27, 2025 | DailyFT
The pre-election promises spanning political, social and economic dimensions have been seemingly kept on a selective basis A bigger picture emerges on the larger canvas of national political life… it is one in which the relatively few, early,...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 19, 2025 | DailyFT
That the NPP-dominated House is starting to walk the talk on promises that its leader made on his remarkable campaign trail must redound to the credit of every one of those 159 National People’s Power MPs As the first year of a House commandeered by the NPP has...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 11, 2025 | DailyFT
Of course, no lover of a land like no other in their right mind would gainsay what Vijitha Herath told the watching world in the aftermath of the blood moon The blood moon of the night of 7 September brought with it a panoply of portents for Sri Lanka. A lunar...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 23, 2025 | DailyFT
On the ground level, where real life trumps dreams and the carnival-like atmosphere of the socio-political circus – things are still hard for the kos polos type of voter Some days are better by far than others. There you go again then, blithe spirit,...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 16, 2025 | DailyFT
From star-gazing would-be astronauts to navel-gazing social anthropologists, we’ve had a surfeit of rising stars and setting suns – er, sons – who’ve promised more than they’ve ever delivered. And they continue to take the public, the polity and the parliaments of...
