by Wijith DeChickera | May 7, 2016 | DailyFT
We hear with some interest the recent argument of the Prime Minister that the free media has a fair share of the blame to bear for the spread of anti-republican “scare-tactic type” rumours. Speaking on the occasion of a day to commemorate press freedom, it...
by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 29, 2016 | DailyFT
THE WRITING IS ON THE WALLSTRÖM: Sri Lanka is looking increasingly like the prettiest girl on the beach in this region. Here, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera and his Swedish counterpart Margot Wallström parley about the island-nation’s...
by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 20, 2016 | DailyFT
A time to reflect – and refocus GO EAST, YOUNG MAN/ WOMAN/ AND CHILD! As the sun rises over the shallow waters of Passikudah Bay in Sri Lanka’s once war-torn north-east, the mind’s eye begins to envision what a new nation-state consolidated by its new social contract...
by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 12, 2016 | DailyFT
Sri Lanka is on the cusp of something. Not just #avurudu, which is *aluth* every new year… when the sun transits from the House of Mina (Pisces) to the House of Mesha (Aries), metaphorically showing a new face to a world it supposedly rules. But literally in the...
by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 8, 2016 | DailyFT
April is the cruellest month, I wrote in these columns last Friday. Not only usually because *aluth avurudda* is a time when the unkindest cuts (power outages, price hikes, pointless protests, pretty little progress in poverty reduction) affect the general populace...
