by Wijith DeChickera | May 26, 2017 | DailyFT
By the time you read this, you would have perused many pieces, no doubt, on the precarious state of the nation of late. The painful memories of April-May – Meethotamulla pitfall and the proposed appointment of a military panjandrum to curb, inter alia, a rising spate...
by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 7, 2017 | DailyFT
Today, 5 April, as I write, my heart is strangely at peace. Not because justice has been done… or even looks remotely like it will be done in a singular landmark killing… But because the heart has its own reasons (of which reason knows nothing) –...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 31, 2017 | DailyFT
The weather these days is a little like the political climate. Early sunshine, clouds on the horizon towards afternoon, scattered thundershowers in the late evening. As far as the incumbent administration goes, the bright patches have scurried over the horizon. Today,...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 24, 2017 | DailyFT
I don’t often quote the United Nations (UN). Not because they don’t say sensible stuff. But because their sound bites are not as memorable as that which their opposition – rogue states, global terrorists – says. Because the UN, like any international humanitarian...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 17, 2017 | DailyFT
BOOM AND/OR BUST – on one hand congratulatory enthusiasm by the international monetary and political powers that be, coupled with handouts that underline their largesse as much as global commitment to Sri Lanka’s burgeoning investor and development...
