Unsealing The Ascharya Deception

By Nishthar Idroos -February 17, 2015

Nishthar Idroos

Many a tightly sealed lid is being opened with vigor, steam and importantly tonnes of inexhaustible determination. A multitude of weapons are being deployed at suspicious sites and on cankering vaults both locally and in distant lands. It’s a hive of activity and work is reassuringly in progress. Huge clobbers are meted out with weapons of diabolical thrust by an entire battalion of chivalrous soldiers. Sahodarayas from the Hela Urumaya fame, the rotund and world cup winning Captain Cool and the inimitable Rathu sahodarayas are surprisingly working in unison for the common good of the nation. They’re naturally goaded by the infectious Yahapalanaya syndrome, the vernacular slogan that has captured the imagination of all and sundry, a curiously experiential and ever permeating piece of vocab rapidly transcending all nooks and corners of mother Lanka.

It seems even the irrepressible His Excellency Dr Mervyn Silva has turned avid devotee of the Yahapalanaya contagion. The pint sized chandiya is at it again, this time dancing to an entirely different tune. He’s simply the most outstanding iguana in Sri Lanka’s political landscape today. This should certainly add to the phenomenal proselytization taking root vis a vis good governance. Leaders from the political left and others are extending direction and leadership quite admirably. One would venture to say that it’s poignant poetry to see unity in political diversity. It’s always intriguing to find traditionally warring factions notorious for their mutual loathing working together for the common good of the nation. After all much is at stake, its fervently hoped sanity and sensibility will prevail until the whole operation is successfully completed, if at all. A new leaf has to be turned for the betterment of the country.Read More