by Wijith DeChickera | Oct 28, 2016 | DailyFT
SIT IT OUT, NOT QUIT IT!? – Concur or conquer, the machinery of state as in CIABOC as much as the engine of legislative oversight per COPE must be paramount over petty politicking and personal agendas. Pity, then, that agents of change have opted to step...
by Wijith DeChickera | Oct 20, 2016 | DailyFT
While you were sleeping, some of us dreaming, the world of words changed overnight. Quietly, while almost no one was watching, a superb Sri Lankan expression entered the English language. “Aiyo.” The perfect interjection or exclamation to communicate a...
by Wijith DeChickera | Oct 12, 2016 | DailyFT
BOYS WILL BE BOYS? – was once the war-cry of a plethora of pestilential political progeny – it seems the plague isn’t over… and pesky violators of the public peace are perhaps the casus belli of goon-fuelled personal vigilantism on our streets...
by Wijith DeChickera | Oct 7, 2016 | DailyFT
History is not what happened. History is what you can – or choose to –remember. However our local history these days is being written by three sets of political actors with a triad of distinct powers of recall. Howbeit this unholy trinity morphs from one...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 28, 2016 | DailyFT
One government cruelly executes bothersome editors acting as the gadfly conscience of a war-wracked country. Another government carefully – or is it carelessly – exhumes the body. Feels like we have watched the procession of an inquiry into the deadly masquerade long...
