by Wijith DeChickera | Jun 8, 2016 | DailyFT
The London 2016 Global Anticorruption Summit (GAS) may have supplied practitioners of the classic island defence of retreating to the high moral ground when under attack with fresh inspiration and ammunition to ward off hostile media trying corruption cases in the...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jun 1, 2016 | DailyFT
Courtesy: Osho News Before anything critical of our crumbling republican government (the ‘GG’s) is further essayed, one thing must be said. The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on majestically and serenely; sans untoward ramifications. That is...
by Wijith DeChickera | May 27, 2016 | DailyFT
APRÈS MOI, LE DÉLUGE! In the aftermath of the Great Flood of 2016, if Sri Lanka is to Build Back Better, the political leadership must be instrumental in syncing Government actors and State agencies in working together with greater integrity and cohesion to more...
by Wijith DeChickera | May 20, 2016 | DailyFT
There’s a nip in the air these days … and I don’t mean the depressive cyclonic weather that we’ve been flooded by. It’s the windy, heady, overflow of adrenaline that comes once in a while with the joys of being a democratic republic or a...
by Wijith DeChickera | May 13, 2016 | DailyFT
CAPTAIN SRI LANKA: CIVIL WAR – While the nation struggles to transform itself from a post-war to a post-conflict society, our elected representatives appear to have set an ironic agenda for themselves – to bicker and brawl like the very schoolboys who watched them,...