by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 29, 2016 | DailyFT
My wife earns more than I do. I sometimes feel a worm on account of it. And other times I rationalise the income disparity. To each their own. We all make choices in life. Political, social, economic. One opts to work full-time in the formal economy. The other...
by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 24, 2016 | DailyFT
CROSSING GUARD – Perhaps we don’t need to enact new legislation to curb the free flow of dangerous chauvinist traffic into the mainstream of political discourse. Maybe a more meaningful response to moonstruck madness would be to implement the relevant...
by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 18, 2016 | DailyFT
Some men lead lives of quiet desperation. Poets, philosophers, people in the street or on plebeian public transport, taxpaying citizens hard-pressed by budgetary policy and burgeoning prices. Far from the cut and thrust of parliamentary politics, safe from the...
by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 8, 2016 | DailyFT
DEAD AND ALIVE – The ghosts of a generation of lost journalists still haunt the corridors of power today. Their deaths, or abductions, or disappearances, may have taken place under a previous government’s myopic watch. True enough. However, the 8th of...
by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 1, 2016 | DailyFT
The COPE report on the CBSL imbroglio was a shower of blessings. In the end, it was evidently unbiased and unabridged. It looked the chief suspects of the bond scam squarely in the eye, collared them, and didn’t pull its punches. The Full Monty it was: signed, sealed,...
