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By Uditha Devapriya Promisingly titled “Rapid Response”, the NPP’s policy manifesto pits the party against the status quo and depicts itself as the clearly superior alternative. It advocates a politics free of corruption, a politics of the people. Written simply and striking an idealistic chord, it indicts every government since independence for the crisis we […]
Our Populism, Their Populism Uditha Devapriya Ever since Athens and Rome, populists have been trying to win it big. Under them words acquire new meanings. Thus people become “the people”, the addition of an article investing an otherwise hackneyed term with sanctimonious awe. “I am the people,” Jayalal Rohana declares at a crucial moment in Jayantha Chandrasiri’s Hankithi Dahathuna, and indeed for much of its history populism claimed to not just stand for, but be with, the populi. Populists did this by pitting voters against elites and institutions, by convincing them that they we...