Democratising Laws and Minds
by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“No questioning
arises from subservient lips.” – Andrée Chedid (For Salman Rushdie)
( May 18, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) In a recent satirical column, American humorist Andy Borowitz reported the discovery of a new strain of fact-resistant humans. “These humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process information… And yet somehow they have developed defences that, for all intents and purposes, have rendered those facilities totally inactive… As facts have multiplied their defences against those facts have grown more powerful…”[i]
