by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 17, 2018 | DailyFT
A lamentable trend in national affairs of late has been to interpret reality on the surface of the status quo. If it is managed spectacles like no-confidence motions that divert attention from unpopular fiscal policy, for instance, we pick our horse and (at the risk...
by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 5, 2018 | DailyFT
Today, 5 April, as I write, my heart is strangely still at peace since the same time last year. Not because justice has been done… or even looks remotely like it will ever be done in a singular landmark killing on our once war-torn landscape. But because the heart has...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 16, 2018 | DailyFT
Today (as I write, on 15 March) is a red-letter day for democratic-republicanism. It commemorates the occasion on which a klatch of lean and angry men stabbed Julius Caesar in the back… and front, or all over. Perhaps Caesar – the first of his name,...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 14, 2018 | DailyFT
I don’t know when power will come back on, and the people of politico-suburbia be reunited on social media. But at the time of writing, savvier denizens of proscribed internet spaces are beginning to suspect that ‘sinister’ is perhaps a better word to describe this...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 9, 2018 | DailyFT
Just one thing today. TGIF. Hope together with the rest of pluralism embracing Sri Lanka that Jumma brings some measure of a just peace to the troubled administrative district that is home to the Buddha’s most treasured relict. But who’s to know...
