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…
“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…
“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…