by Wijith DeChickera | Oct 29, 2018 | DailyFT
YES, PRIME MINISTER! Sorry/State – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara In politics, as in life, there are no permanent friends – or enemies. All is in flux. When circumstances or situations change, people go with the flow. Rare is the man (or woman) in public...
by Wijith DeChickera | Oct 19, 2018 | DailyFT
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE: A sitting president threw down the gauntlet at a public rally recently, challenging his fellow politicos on their corrupt culture. (‘Who can claim to be clean?‘ etc.) While his fusillade did not earn a standing ovation...
by Wijith DeChickera | Oct 5, 2018 | DailyFT
ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREECH: In the old days, the maxim among defenders of the Fourth Estate was: “We shall defend to the death your right to be wrong!” Today with the trifecta of politico, publisher and pressman contesting the same space for accuracy and completeness,...
by Wijith DeChickera | Oct 2, 2018 | DailyFT
Of late, the deep state has been the least of my worries. It has not kept me awake at night since the doldrums of the post 2015 revolution – fiasco though that has turned out to be. But it is deeper states of mind – to do with faith and philosophy – that concern me...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 28, 2018 | DailyFT
ON THE FAST TRACK: A new 80+km rail track from Kurunegala to Habarana via Dambulla under the five-year ‘Let’s Awaken Polonnaruwa’ District Development Programme (2016-2020) – note the terminus a quo and terminus post quem – had been identified as “an essential and...
