We had to pay twice for the wedding since we were unable to notify the hotel in time that the ceremony would be held owing to the country's condition.
Many who attended the wedding finally a week later would vouch for how frugal the wedding was thanks to the financial constraints brought in by the situation that prevailed then in the country.
We were unable to do so since, at the time, someone had set fire to the Mount Lavinia telephone exchange, rendering all landlines inoperable.
Your guess as to who is to blame for those horrible atrocities is as good as mine.
Many moons later, at a party, I ran across a high school acquaintance who, after a couple of too many drinks, became a true talker.
He began bragging about how he and a comrade in the Sri Lankan police force had destroyed several power transformers by simply opening the oil coolant valves on those units in the middle of the night.
All they needed were the blessing of a very powerful politician who was in power then, a pair of pliers and the darkness.
His father was a well-known journalist who backed the left, but he was not affiliated with any political party and merely did things for the fun of it.
I narrate this story now not to defend someone in particular, but to remind everyone that every story we see, read, or hear has some other truth to it than what we really interpret it.
As many believe, I too believe that JVP is also to be blamed for many things in the past, and if they come to power, their outdated and failed economic ideology would bring more problems to us.
The need of the hour in this country is to grow up and try to see beyond our small circles.
When I say "grow up," it means throwing away the coloured glasses we always wear to blindly defend one crook and lambast another ruthlessly.
If we as a nation can accomplish this, only true wealth will come knocking.
Otherwise, we would remain an impoverished country for many centuries, blaming all of our problems on other religions, ethnicities, foreign powers, and so on.
The choice is ours.
Finally, you have the option of agreeing or disagreeing.
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