by Wijith DeChickera | Feb 7, 2018 | DailyFT
If members of parliament are O-Level-failed, it’s a failure of the legislature that reflects poorly on the struggling electorate as much as on state education. But when the chief executive demonstrates his grasp of the new math (“70=30”), it’s a triumph of the new...
by Wijith DeChickera | Feb 2, 2018 | DailyFT
I feel something queer come over me, as the actress said to the bishop. There’s a certain je ne sais quoi in the air these days… a balmy in wonderland mixture of introspective nostalgia and prospective newness. Maybe it’s all those fumes from myriad aeroplanes flying...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jan 26, 2018 | DailyFT
Welcome me back with a stiff one, cheerful reader, I’m coming to this party a little late. While I was away on vacation, naively assuming that the Government had matters well under control during vacation time, it seems that the powers that be have been at the brandy...
by Wijith DeChickera | Dec 22, 2017 | DailyFT
In his 1930 poem W. H. Auden issued this challenge: “Let us honour if we can / the vertical man / though we value none / but the horizontal one/”. He meant that humanity worships powerful living fellow creatures and forgets the dull dead. But we Sri...
by Wijith DeChickera | Dec 15, 2017 | DailyFT
Last week I challenged the powers that be to walk the talk on media freedom. Because it had become increasingly obvious that only murder and mayhem separated the present dispensation from the previous regime. Once in power all politicians feel the sharp thorn of the...
