Sri Lanka; as the ‘old’ withers away, the ‘new’ struggles to be born View(s):Long before election fever gripped Sri Lanka, the writing was on the wall signalling that a maddened electorate will opt for amputation of ‘mainstream’ limbs of the nation’s political establishment at the speed of greased lightning. The former President, his coterie of favourites and his Ministers fiddled while the country burnt in small fires everywhere. The demand to end incessant party conflicts, perennially a feature of Sri Lanka’s political landscape, could not have been clearer. The result was predictably an NPP electoral tidal wave. But to borrow with apologies from the old Marxist adage of an entirely different reality, the ‘old’ is withering away and the ‘new’ is struggling to take root.

Source: Sunday Times November 24, 2024 00:55 UTC