by Wijith DeChickera | Jan 22, 2016 | DailyFT
A Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. But practice has proven that this truism can be subverted, or subject to interpretation detrimental to the welfare of the nation-state. So it remains an ambition of the democratic movement of the past year and a bit more...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jan 13, 2016 | DailyFT
President Maithripala Sirisena, Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake, Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe. A triad of issues – and not necessarily whether Government brings brigands under past regimes to book – may well enter the lists as the key issues on which good...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jan 8, 2016 | DailyFT
The plot thickens: Seven years ago, an iconic senior journalist was brutally slaughtered on Sri Lanka’s post-war mean streets. A year ago – on the sixth anniversary of his slaying – an instrumental change was made to the political landscape of which he was so much a...
by Wijith DeChickera | Dec 30, 2015 | DailyFT
I have a bad feeling about this. Essaying any form of evaluation or assessment of Good Governance’s first year in office (or power, if you are in that mood) is bound to come a-cropper. Too cynical, and the powers that be could be inclined to crucify you. Too...
by Wijith DeChickera | Dec 23, 2015 | DailyFT
Today is >Saturnalia, an ancient Roman festival of feasting, mayhem, madness. (Sometimes, still, subtly or subversively, it is observed in Colombo’s bacchanalian quarters!) Tomorrow night, choirs – around Sri Lanka as much as the rest of the Christian world – will...
