by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 18, 2015 | DailyFT
It’s almost 1:47 p.m. on 14 April, as I write. The sun is poised to transit – astrologically speaking – from the House of Meena (Pisces) to the House of Mesha (Aries). The star around which we orbit, to put it poetically, is about to show a new face. It’s a propitious...
by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 8, 2015 | DailyFT
One of the great expectations of a good-governance-touting administration was that it would bring a whole cabal of lawbreakers of yesteryear to book. But a closer scrutiny of the coalition government’s erstwhile election manifesto reveals that the fine print was not...
by Wijith DeChickera | Apr 1, 2015 | DailyFT
Today, on the first day of a new month, my mind goes back to that dawn, no more than three moons ago, when some of us had our legs pulled. It was a dawn of hope in which many democratic-republicans waxed eloquent about the change that was to be. But it – that much...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 27, 2015 | DailyFT
There are at least three ways to view the sudden swell in the numbers of government ministers earlier this week.The first is a charitable one – that “these things happen” and it’s all to be expected (and even accepted) as par for the course in island politics.The...
by Wijith DeChickera | Mar 20, 2015 | DailyFT
There’s a breathless hush in the Close tonight as I write. Not because there’s “ten to make and the match to win” or “ten to make and the last man in”. But because the match – the match that made all the difference to Sri Lanka’s World Cup 2015 hopes – has just been...
