Peace for the World

Peace for the World
First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Saturday, December 16, 2017

Politics in a time of amnesia


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"...there is such a thing as suicide."Aldous Huxley
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by Tisaranee Gunasekara-

"Does a nation remember and forget in much the same way as an individual does?" Kazuo Ishiguro wondered in his Nobel Lecturei. As the third year of the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe administration draws to a close, the question cannot but arise: does a government remember and forget as an individual does?

Does this government?