Gota’s life on the run View(s):Under virtual ’hotel arrest’ in Bangkok, thoughts turn homeboundThe people asked for Gota to go home, not for him to flee the country. Or having long stays at 7-star hotels in the world’s capitals, leaving the Lankan public to pick up the tab? Are the people to believe Cabinet Minister Bandula Gunawardena, the cabinet-appointed cabinet mouthpiece when he states that the State paid the bill? He may even come to hold ‘hotel arrest’ in Thailand, infinitely better than life at home. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom’.

Source: Sunday Times August 21, 2022 19:12 UTC