A Village in the Jungle!
January 19, 2015 
“There are people who will tell you that they have no fear of the jungle, that they know it as well as the streets of Maha Nuwara or their own compounds. Such people are either liars or boasters, or they are fools, without understanding or feeling for things as they really are”“It was a strange world, a world of bare and brutal facts, of superstition, or grotesque imagination; a world of trees and the perpetual twilight of their shade; a world of hunger and fear and devils, where a man was helpless before the unseen and unintelligible powers surrounding him”
– The Village in the Jungle, Leonard Woolf
Just when we had begun to think that the Rajapaksa dispensation would be the order of the day for the foreseeable future – the three arms of government in its firm grip, the Parliamentary Opposition only a distant challenge, big business prostrate before it, State media a mere mouth piece while all other major media institutions under its de facto control, the Government as solid as the rock of Gibraltar or perhaps as impregnable as the Sigiriya fortress in its glory days – the edifice collapsed with astonishing rapidity, peacefully, by the most effective instrument known to free men, the vote.
