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by Sarath de Alwis
“The common hope of the entire country is how to change this rotten, corrupt political and societal system.”
Candidate Sajith Premadasa made this critically concise, piercingly persuasive statement on Thursday, just nine days before the final faceoff.
He added, “I will appoint a new, first-time Prime Minister who will be endorsed by the majority.”
Why did he say what he...
The hullabaloo over sanitary pads has served a salutary purpose. It has exposed our collective confusion over what is ‘poverty’ and what is ‘development’.
Other than ‘National Security’ that acquired a new urgency in the light of the Easter Sunday massacre, poverty and development are the two central issues dominating the furious debate on who should be our next president...
In his classic narrative poem ‘Divine Comedy’, Dante Alighieri chronicles his journey from the depths of hell to the splendors of heaven. The medieval poet describes punishments suffered by sinners with piercing precision.
With his guide Virgil, the Poet discovers a group of dead souls outside the entrance to Hell. Hell wouldn’t let them in, and heaven will not accept...
“You are talking about the past. Let’s talk about the future. I am trying to be the president of a future Sri Lanka.“
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa
“I govern not as a general, but because the nation believes I possess the qualities needed for governing.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte
He entered the contest as a man with a plan. Smartass detractors were nasty. “He is a man with a plan and a...
It was a ‘Brobdingnagian’ display of popular solidarity behind candidate Sajith Premadasa. What took place on Thursday at the Galle Face maidan was a masterly managed exercise of crowd psychology.
For someone to be a member of such a motivated crowd, he, she had to renounce the solitude of the meek and the cunning of the coward.
Their presence in the mad melee was to be a...
by Sarath de Alwis
The synchronic rise of China and India has prompted the euphemism- ‘Asian Century’. As blurbs often do, it distorts the past,...