The governments began borrowing thrusting the poor nation deep into debt

If you were born in the early fifties, you would have grown up in simpler time

IMF agreed to restart its programme and enable us some breathing space

The ECP has always been magnanimous towards the political parties

There exists little possibility for political players to come together in consensus on critical issues

The people, their power expended, always remain unchanged

Sri Lanka went under and declare so to the world; elite power wilted away in the face of people’s wrath

Attitudes between political players will need to change to enable a sustained parliamentary democracy

Politics may be war but a war with rules just as sports is a contest with rules

Putin must hasten to achieve his objectives and call halt to war, to save from unnecessary loss of military capacity