by Wijith DeChickera | Jun 8, 2018 | DailyFT
There was a time when one might have admired the country’s Grand Old Party (GOP). It was the party of the Grand Old Man (GOM) who put Sri Lanka on the free world’s map as well as earned us a black mark against our name for national crimes committed in the face of...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jun 1, 2018 | DailyFT
I had been penning long pieces using what the subeditors at your favourite daily are pleased to call ‘dictionary words’, the idiots – all such words are in a dic!But the error of my ways has been pointed out to me, thank you so much. And I thought of...
by Wijith DeChickera | May 25, 2018 | DailyFT
A wag said on social media recently that the inhabitants of our Blessed Isle must have liked the royal wedding so much that the good lord gave them a double dose of British weather. He didn’t put it quite so well, o ye gods above. And the trolls who inhabit Facebook...
by Wijith DeChickera | May 18, 2018 | DailyFT
No man is a hero to his wife or cat. Maybe canines pass muster with men because the former idolise the latter. As much as feral strongmen politicos who once cried “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war are adored by the rabid masses. And then there are the once...
by Wijith DeChickera | May 11, 2018 | DailyFT
Two things bother me. More than two, really! But let’s just stick to politics. Shall we? First, who constitutes the true political opposition in Sri Lanka? Is it the Joint Opposition, which carries the biggest stick and has the loudest foul mouth? Or is it the TNA,...
