by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 8, 2025 | DailyFT
As economy watchers warned only recently, Sri Lanka by dint of its Central Bank’s defence of the latest rate cut is skating on thin ice vis-à-vis a second default Time is a funny thing that way. To a sad and lonely old man, sitting on a park bench next to a...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 2, 2025 | DailyFT
If a people’s movement such as the Aragalaya is to actualise ALL of its ambitions, it must be a perpetual revolution The closing of ranks by a widely despised regime in the aftermath of July 2022 served Sri Lanka in at least one sterling sense. In that those...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 14, 2025 | DailyFT
Between the events of 14 July 1789, and 9-13 July 2022, lie many commonalities that can and must unite the spirits of any downtrodden people who sought to end – and succeeded in ending, for a significant time at least – their sore oppression by tyrannical...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 12, 2025 | DailyFT
Until the arguably ultimate objective of the erstwhile Aragalaya – that is to say a truly equitable milieu in city, town and country; nation and state; parliamentary precincts and among the hoi polloi; etc – eventuates, one can never conscionably urge or...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 4, 2025 | DailyFT
The unforgiving attitudes in the hearts of the once victimised sound a discord in their plaintive wails in the press and at people’s councils islandwide over the years It is the case – and has always been and will always be in its better avatars and more...
