Doesn’t Ranil deserve the cup?
By Shyamon Jayasinghe, Melbourne-June 30, 2015, 8:30 pm
If it is to benefit from a high-growth region and prosper among other nations in the world, Sri Lanka must drastically switch its focus away from narrow and claustrophobic identity and tribal battles onto modern, secular goals related to the prosperity of its people. We are facing a new version of the old guns versus butter debate central to economics. Do we allocate our time, resources and effort toward guns? Or, are we going to allocate the bulk of them toward the production of "butter?" I say, we must extricate ourselves from spurious battles over identities that only generate negative emotional energy and violence and take us to darkness. Instead, let’s move forward coming to terms with economic realities that are staring us in the face.