by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 8, 2017 | DailyFT
One week later, I still know nothing I am writing this on the morning of the evening when the moon will be full. But I am not sure if the madness which follows has anything to do with lunacy. Since a week or so ago, I have begun to question everything I...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 4, 2017 | DailyFT
If politics is the art of the possible, governance is the artifice of the sublime being reduced to the ridiculous in slow, sure, steps. Such as that of a republican government degenerating into a parody of the regime it replaced, while arousing the hopes of a once...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 28, 2017 | DailyFT
Life, as a musically-inclined poet of a previous age once essayed, is what happens when you are planning to do something else. Well, the same may be said for the intentions of Good Governance: that the best-laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley; as another...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 21, 2017 | DailyFT
If the human race is fallen, politics – perhaps – is where it shows most blushingly. It is, after all, the world’s oldest profession; having thrived before the fall. In the beginning, when God began to create all the other pastimes and vocations,...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 14, 2017 | DailyFT
With all due respect to those who have been afflicted by it, of course I am. While the desolation of the loss of a loved one to the deadly disease cannot be quantified, my position can be qualified by an argument which one hopes would not be interpreted as...
