by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 23, 2025 | DailyFT
On the ground level, where real life trumps dreams and the carnival-like atmosphere of the socio-political circus – things are still hard for the kos polos type of voter Some days are better by far than others. There you go again then, blithe spirit,...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 16, 2025 | DailyFT
From star-gazing would-be astronauts to navel-gazing social anthropologists, we’ve had a surfeit of rising stars and setting suns – er, sons – who’ve promised more than they’ve ever delivered. And they continue to take the public, the polity and the parliaments of...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 8, 2025 | DailyFT
As economy watchers warned only recently, Sri Lanka by dint of its Central Bank’s defence of the latest rate cut is skating on thin ice vis-à-vis a second default Time is a funny thing that way. To a sad and lonely old man, sitting on a park bench next to a...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 2, 2025 | DailyFT
If a people’s movement such as the Aragalaya is to actualise ALL of its ambitions, it must be a perpetual revolution The closing of ranks by a widely despised regime in the aftermath of July 2022 served Sri Lanka in at least one sterling sense. In that those...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 14, 2025 | DailyFT
Between the events of 14 July 1789, and 9-13 July 2022, lie many commonalities that can and must unite the spirits of any downtrodden people who sought to end – and succeeded in ending, for a significant time at least – their sore oppression by tyrannical...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 12, 2025 | DailyFT
Until the arguably ultimate objective of the erstwhile Aragalaya – that is to say a truly equitable milieu in city, town and country; nation and state; parliamentary precincts and among the hoi polloi; etc – eventuates, one can never conscionably urge or...
