How a weak Opposition could still play it smart
October 18, 2014 
It was exactly 50 years ago, in 1964, when I was seven years old, that my father introduced me to the political personalities who would visit our Ward Place flat and took me around for public rallies including election meetings. Having closely observed Sri Lankan politics for half a century, I cannot but conclude that taken as a collective (and with a few individual exceptions), Sri Lankan politics today has the dumbest Opposition I’ve ever seen in this country.
