by Wijith DeChickera | Oct 7, 2015 | DailyFT
Shall the taxpayer have to see and bear a reinstitution of the lionising of local politicos that was par for the course under the previous Caesars? A funny thing happened on the way to the UNGA forum. Caesar’s wife was invited but couldn’t go, so Caesar’s...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 30, 2015 | DailyFT
By now all of Lanka knows the President was accompanied to the UNGA forum by his son, who had no official standing in the Sri Lankan delegation, and that the young man in question was a visible part of the President’s entourage on the Indian leg of our...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 22, 2015 | DailyFT
A little thinking – like a lot of learning – can be a dangerous thing. An excess of it can be downright subversive. The trinity behind a recent exhibition <Corridors of Power: Drawing & Modelling Sri Lanka’s Tryst with Democracy>...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 17, 2015 | DailyFT
What has come to pass in the Republic in the name of constitutional game-changing cannot be allowed to pass – to pass into time past by default, and opportunities bypassed by design – without rigorous engagement When the would-be reformers of our previously...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 11, 2015 | DailyFT
Did you feel that democracy is the worst form of government? Except, of course, for all the others that have ever been! Could it be, though, that we have seen too little of it, of late, to appreciate it least when it works best…We have experienced less of it...
