Redefining The Rules – The Ten Commandments!

By Muhammed Fazl -September 18, 2014

Muhammed Fazl

With three days to go for the Uva PC elections and dubbed as a ‘measurement of the pulse of the people’ by all sides, I wonder if the outcome would make any difference, especially to whom it matters the most – the poor. Whilst the ominous signs are written all over the camps of the ruling types, in the event of an opposition victory, would it also set the balls rolling for a change of direction this country so badly seems to be in need of?

Think so I do not, not when the opposition forces are divided, not when their members have individual and personal agendas and interests, and most certainly not when they forget who their common enemy is. While I make my observations, as usual and once again, I share my thoughts towards giving an impetus to the ‘just-woken-from-deep-slumber’ opposition parties.

1 – In an age where they invade your living rooms and directly influences your decisions as to what you should or shouldn’t do, or how you should think or think not, it would be plain stupidity on the part of members playing in the big leagues to underestimate the make or break abilities of media houses. As Mr. Winston Churchill once said, “there are no permanent friends but only permanent interests”, I suggest members in the opposition ranks to refrain from pointing accusing fingers at media men/women, especially at privately owned ones, and however strong the dished out antagonism is. Hope Mr. Mangala Samaraweera takes serious note.                                Read More