by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 19, 2016 | DailyFT
RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT – The debacle in the House last Friday pales in comparison with the desolation suffered (and still being experienced) by a lost generation of Sri Lankans today. While passing and/or blocking bills is part of a canny and...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 12, 2016 | DailyFT
THE LONG MARCH – not so much a blast from the past, but a whimper from the world of wishful thinking? That the juggernaut which once swept everything in its path from Colombo to Kataragama (Pãda Yãthrã 1.0) – and beyond, to the...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 5, 2016 | DailyFT
MARCH – Pointless foot-soldiery of a passé regime, or potent force for present and future political-culture change? When 1.5 million people vote with their feet, governments get noticeably, understandably, agitated. They might, for instance,...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 29, 2016 | DailyFT
A week and more ago, those of us who remembered celebrated humanity’s greatest adventure yet: our first (manned spacecraft) moon landing on 20 July 1969. And yet a significant segment of web-crawlers still believes that the whole operation was faked as a part of...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 22, 2016 | DailyFT
NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER – The spirit of a nascent Sri Lankan nationalism (inclusive, tolerant, Other-embracing) might be compromised if Government and civil society together don’t challenge competing nationalisms Call me cynical, but I live by a maxim as far as...
