Good Governance: The Hard Road from Slogan to Reality
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by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
Camus (An Absurd Reasoning)
( February 14, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) On January 5th, 2015, the last day of the campaign, newspapers were full of advertisements, most supporting Mahinda Rajapaksa. Unique amongst them was a full page ad by the Diyawadana Nilame and the Basnayake Nilames of 31 devales. The ad denounced ‘local and international forces and other evil people’ who are trying to ‘commit the great sin of destabilising the country’; it also expressed full backing to the ‘holy leader courageously defending the country’.
