by Wijith DeChickera | Jan 19, 2026 | DailyFT
The blackout resulted from incorrect transmission protection settings and operational errors at major hydro generation facilities, especially Victoria – not rooftop solar excess. It is noted that the official report by the CEB on the blackout has not highlighted any...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jan 8, 2026 | DailyFT
Sixteen years after the assassination of The Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, the Sri Lankan justice system has failed to identify or effectively prosecute those who ordered the killing. Despite intermittent investigative breakthroughs, and intense local...
by Wijith DeChickera | Dec 31, 2025 | DailyFT
Cyclone Ditwah didn’t simply wash away Sri Lanka’s railway tracks. It washed away our excuses. For decades, Sri Lanka Railways (SLR) has been the classic state-owned paradox: socially vital, fiscally fragile, structurally neglected – and politically untouchable. When...
by Wijith DeChickera | Dec 20, 2025 | DailyFT
There are many dangers on the road ahead as regards ‘rebuilding’ Sri Lanka. These are not the challenges facing state and citizenry as well as other stakeholders in the national interest. But rather the traps into which any of us could fall. And one of these is that...
by Wijith DeChickera | Dec 13, 2025 | DailyFT
Where do the vulnerable go from here? The aftermath of Ditwa in the Central Province – Pic by Shehan Gunasekera And it is not over yet. For there are still painful questions floating downstream with the debris like some moral detritus that no...
by Wijith DeChickera | Dec 5, 2025 | DailyFT
Often our resilience is merely the nihilistic vein that runs deep in drowned villages and flooded towns showing up as a resigned adjustment to an otherwise unbearable reality. It didn’t take long for them to show through the velvet glove. Arrogance amongst the...
