by Wijith DeChickera | Oct 31, 2025 | DailyFT
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. It is sweet and fitting to expect that against all faded hopes, justice may still be done Almost every day I make a mental note of some smidgen of armchair wisdom that promises peace if only one would let go, let it go...
by Wijith DeChickera | Oct 18, 2025 | DailyFT
Sri Lanka’s chequered history of coalition politics wreaking havoc on the nation’s growth, development progress speaks volumes for the fallout from a lack of such agreement and cohesion In Sri Lanka, in 2024/2025 and beyond, this takes on added emphasis in...
by Wijith DeChickera | Oct 11, 2025 | DailyFT
It is power because it consists of the ability of the one or few who are at the top to make others do a number of things (positively or negatively) that they would not or at least might not have done We survey the extant literature on political leadership...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 27, 2025 | DailyFT
The pre-election promises spanning political, social and economic dimensions have been seemingly kept on a selective basis A bigger picture emerges on the larger canvas of national political life… it is one in which the relatively few, early,...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 19, 2025 | DailyFT
That the NPP-dominated House is starting to walk the talk on promises that its leader made on his remarkable campaign trail must redound to the credit of every one of those 159 National People’s Power MPs As the first year of a House commandeered by the NPP has...
by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 11, 2025 | DailyFT
Of course, no lover of a land like no other in their right mind would gainsay what Vijitha Herath told the watching world in the aftermath of the blood moon The blood moon of the night of 7 September brought with it a panoply of portents for Sri Lanka. A lunar...
