by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 14, 2016 | DailyFT
CORRUPTION – that third C in the triad, not mentioned in the article below with its other two companions: Car-pālanaya and Comrade-principled politics – comes in many forms, shapes, and disguises. Governments touting Good Governance as an emotive pivot on...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 7, 2016 | DailyFT
Much ink has been spilled over the alleged (we’re still COPE-ing) CBSL bond scam, the stubborn refusal to deal with an issue, power-plays around personalities and preferences rather than principles, and the value of compromise in a republic whose governors hail from a...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jun 29, 2016 | DailyFT
The silent treatment It’s the clever young man who writes a column for another newspaper who made me realise for the first time what’s really wrong. He was so clear and très articulate that it hurt, like a bright stab of sunshine hurts one’s vision after the dark...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jun 22, 2016 | DailyFT
Drug busts of gargantuan dimensions signal that detection is ongoing, even if a crackdown on crime cartels in the present does not necessarily mean that past offenders will be brought to book by the same measure. Turf wars of yore which remain unresolved to date, with...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jun 15, 2016 | DailyFT
How can the new political culture justify excesses such as supplementary estimates amounting to billions of rupees amidst exigencies such as natural and unnatural disasters burying its people under tragedy, death, and taxes? How a superfluity of opinions and...
