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Cassandra watched with disgust and disdain the IUSF led by Wasantha Mudalige on a protest debacle and not march, camera captured and screened on MTV on Monday April 3 night news . There he was facing the police with a body built up though soon after imprisonment, with unshaven, hair unkempt assistants beside him and […]
On Tuesday March 28, The Island editor as is his way, struck the nail on its damn head and fearlessly made his point. He wrote: “The efficiency of the police is truly amazing,” and then added the damper: “the only problem being that it is selective.” This selectivity seems to be worsening. During the weekend […]
Hope springs eternal in the human breast, it is said, but if the breast is of a national-minded Sri Lankan, hope cannot rise; it is stifled by fear, worry, frustration and stark disappointment. Government persons are flapping their upper limbs and crowing about improvement in the economy; nothing much for us Ordinaries to experience or […]
We regained hope when Ranil Wickremesinghe came to the forefront of the political scene and was made PM and then President. We expected much of him and he could have delivered. What exactly does that ‘could have’ connote? We expected him to revive the economy, eliminate corruption and do what the people were asking for. […]
By MAHIR ALI Ukraine’s Independence Day was bereft of any public celebrations in Kyiv because of the elevated risk of Russian attacks on the capital. Precisely six months into Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation”, the ultimate aims of the mindless aggression as well as any prospects of a ceasefire remain shrouded in the fog of […]