by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“…the Greeks never said that the limit could not be overstepped. They said it existed and that whoever dared to exceed it was mercilessly struck down. Nothing in present history can contradict them.”
Camus (Helen’s Exile)
( November 7, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Commonwealth was the last sigh of the British Raj, the consolation price the British awarded themselves when they were forced to abandon their global political holdings.