by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 1, 2016 | DailyFT
THE WASTE LAND: Government resorting to staging protests, Joint Opposition rallies to regroup split parties with splinter groups, mercurial weather gods, a dry and parched populace bereft of both ‘good’ governance and or ‘bad’ growth to show for it – these prospects...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 25, 2016 | DailyFT
Power struggles are par for the course in developing political-economies (so they say). People power will be exercised at election time to redress power imbalances (so you hope). Problem is no political party is likely to really want to test the people’s will in that...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 16, 2016 | DailyFT
Denmark produces some 140% of its power demand from alternative energy sources such as wind power – so much more than its domestic needs that it exports electricity to neighbouring Scandinavia and even Germany. Sri Lanka once envisaged producing sufficient power to...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 11, 2016 | DailyFT
Occupy The Square – like its inspiration, Occupy Wall Street – was a flash-movement created on social media and driven by the passionate intensity of a few likeminded liberals sensing that an injustice had been done to civilian liberties. Outcome,...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 4, 2016 | DailyFT
Some things change. Some things don’t. Sometimes, the more things change the more they stay the same. Plus ça change. Plus c’est la même chose.The 88th Annual Academy Awards, 2016 – more colloquially ^The Oscars ’16^ – are proof of this multifaceted hypothesis....
