Quarantine ruminations this week are focused on political hypocrisy. Our ‘electoral democracy’ is quietly slipping towards an ‘elected despotism’. In self-isolation, confined to our homes, we have suddenly become aware of what it is to be free – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine…
“The State is a product of society at a certain stage of development…” – Friedrich Engels Piyumi Hansamali Chandimal Jayasinghe Chamuditha Samarawickrama If the story of Sri Lanka’s battle with the COVID-19 pandemic is ever written, it is very possible that the Hansamali-Chandimal-Chamuditha episode would claim a few pages,…
“As of April 2021, the inflation rate was the highest in four years. Food prices accounted for over 60 percent of the total increase in inflation. Nigeria’s economic growth is being hindered by food inflation, heightened insecurity, unemployment and stalled reforms”. -World Bank Report. Talk is cheap. But walking that…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) and the National Orientation Agency (NOA) have called for the implementation of the National Ethics and Integrity Policy to save the country from erosion of ethics and collapse of values. Speaking at a day stakeholders’ zonal dialogue on the implementation…
President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised to adopt a non-violent approach to solve increasing wave of youth violence across the country. Professor of Development Psychology at the University of Ibadan, Grace Adejuwon who gave the advice said while it is good to invest in weaponry, Governors and President Muhammadu Buhari…
Before the next “test-demic” surge and the next almost inevitable temporary peak of death from this or that leads us to destroy all the momentum we next build up, or the next pathogen has us scampering for the covers and locking our lives away, perhaps we can insist on the…
Quarantine ruminations this week are focused on political hypocrisy. Our ‘electoral democracy’ is quietly slipping towards an ‘elected despotism’. In self-isolation, confined to our homes, we have suddenly become aware of what it is to be free – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine…
“The State is a product of society at a certain stage of development…” – Friedrich Engels Piyumi Hansamali Chandimal Jayasinghe Chamuditha Samarawickrama If the story of Sri Lanka’s battle with the COVID-19 pandemic is ever written, it is very possible that the Hansamali-Chandimal-Chamuditha episode would claim a few pages,…
Before the next “test-demic” surge and the next almost inevitable temporary peak of death from this or that leads us to destroy all the momentum we next build up, or the next pathogen has us scampering for the covers and locking our lives away, perhaps we can insist on the…
Quarantine ruminations this week are focused on political hypocrisy. Our ‘electoral democracy’ is quietly slipping towards an ‘elected despotism’. In self-isolation, confined to our homes, we have suddenly become aware of what it is to be free – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine…