Caligula In Colombo
by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“Let them hate us as long as they fear us.”
Caligula
(January 16, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian)
At first sight, it read like the sort of buffoonery newspapers delight in, to honour the April Fools Day: ‘MOD ponders rehabilitating NPC member Ananthi’ . But this is January not April; and arresting the TNA provincial councillor who was second highest on the preference-votes list sounded just like the sort of something Gotabhaya Rajapaksa would love to ponder, if not do.
