The Rajapaksa Creed And The Medamulana Nikaya
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“The tune the head of the household begins is what everyone in the house sings.”
Rwandan maxim
( April 24, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Mihin Air is a metaphor for Rajapaksa economics.
A budget airline was neither a national deed nor a popular demand. Mihin Air, the first state entity to be named after President Rajapaksa, never made a profit in its existence. It loses billions of rupees annually, and yet its continued existence is not in doubt.
