A Future Bathetic?
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“There is no tomorrow in this desert”.
Mahmoud Darwish (A rhyme for the odes)
( October 23, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) It is another first – full-page, full-colour advertisements in daily papers, by the Ministry of Finance and Planning. Titled, ‘The Five Pillars that Uplift the Nation. Unstoppable Sri Lanka’ the ads laud Mahinda Chinthanaya and the upcoming budget.
