by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 8, 2017 | DailyFT
TO THE VICTOR THE SPOILS: While the vanquished in war languish on the margins of society, the triumphant dominate town hall and headlines with their pitched battles against political opponents. A once-jailed general unceremoniously stripped of war hero status –...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 1, 2017 | DailyFT
I’m turning the page today. Which is to say: I’m trashing ‘realpolitik’ – which was rubbish in the main anyway – and throwing down the gauntlet.Time to get real… in ‘politics’ – government, journalists, the whole jing-bang – as they say.Sorry if you’ve been at your...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 25, 2017 | DailyFT
As with many other champions of just causes, Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe may have gone from campaigning for justice to becoming just another crusader out to claim his own rights and privileges. But unlike many other pseudo-democrats who traverse the primrose path from paada...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 18, 2017 | DailyFT
I am amazed – and amused – by the spate of “ministerial responses” to Ravi’s exit last week. The Prime Minister has promised to expedite the backlog of anticorruption cases his administration appears to have shelved for the nonce. The...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 11, 2017 | DailyFT
Good things come to those who wait… as the actress said to the bishop. But all this making us wait for the inevitable end is the sublime descending into the ridiculous – as the bishop replied. In the end, the man went… as he could or should have...
