by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 23, 2016 | DailyFT
Awake, O sleepers, the time to do some real work has come! Admit it. The headline floored you. There you were on a Friday morning muttering “TGIF!” loudly and fervently if you’re the boss… or furtively under bated breath if you’re a wage slave – like me. Then along...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 15, 2016 | DailyFT
One thing you can count on to see our island-race through some tough times is our legendary sense of resilience. (I’m going to ignore the racists who think there’s more than one race – the human – in our blessed isle.) The other thing is our semi-mythical sense of...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 8, 2016 | DailyFT
THERE’S A NEW MOON – it’s once in a blue moon that the stars align in Sri Lanka’s favour; and now that the star players in Sri Lanka’s lately shining-in-the-West political firmament have lined up all the major planets favourable to our ascendancy, it only remains for...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 1, 2016 | DailyFT
WHEN TROUBLES COME – an under-siege chief executive is fast discovering that the singular joy of being the Democratic-Republican project’s cherished common candidate is easily undermined by dint of being the Joint Opposition’s common enemy for target...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 26, 2016 | DailyFT
THE X FILES – the more some things change, the more they remain the same… You could think we would know better by now not to make future heroes out of former zeroes. We have had our idolatrous fingers burned by doing precisely the very thing...
