𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒍 ( දුක් ගන්නා රාළ )

After a very long time, I met a person at a funeral house immediately after the recent general elections and knowing that the person is a avid supporter of the present regime, I was determine not to talk any politics. Once the initial greetings and chit chat were over, the person knowing that I was a grower and selling my stuffs, wanted to how the business was running. Because of my previous resolution I was initially a bit reluctant to talk facts but when the person prodded me more, I had no avenue to turn than to disclose that doing business in this country is not as easy as one would thought. I confessed how I failed to register a company, the very first step to be taken if anyone is thinking of doing any business. The failure is partly due to my stubbornness and but mostly due to corrupt officials who instead of helping a business, instead throw more and more obstacles in one’s path with only one intention in their mind. It is no secret that coloured papers with different...

Someone I spoke to regarding these new ministries appointed said, these new ministries are given according to the present needs of the country and he further mentioned the අලි වැට to drive his point home. The need to have an effective control and remedy over human animal conflict is needed but why it can't be dealt by the ministry of Wild life is puzzling. Take the existing ministry under the ministry of Defense and improve that creating a totally new ministry is just a waste of money only.   Now I see more and more people are selling බුළත් විට on roadsides to get a few extra bucks to supplement their ever shrinking and meager household incomes thanks to Corona and this government's foolish monetary policies. I am sure now we can expect a new  ministry called ministry of බුළත් විට , just like the අලි වැට soon . Another need of the hour.   What a disappointment it was.   It proves the fact that Small minds think SMALL right again.

 I was looking at the voting numbers in the recently concluded General Election and I see an anomaly in them. Let’s break them down for easy deciphering. Here is the comparison. In the Presidential Election 2019, GR received 6.9 million votes and SP received 5.5 million votes. In the General Election 2020, the party that had the GR’s blessing received 6.8 million and the decrease in numbers is so minute, which can be attributed to many valid reasons. Surprisingly, SP received on 2.7 million votes in the General Election 2020 and the decrease in numbers is enormous.  It is almost half of what he has received in the Presidential election. No doubt the turnover for this was much lesser than the Presidential elections. It was 85 % in the PE and has come down to 75 % in the GE. Let's say, around 1.4 million less votes in total count due to lesser turnover factor and then this reduction should have to be felt across the board and not only on SP's vote count. Does anyone want to be...

I was not a government servant but seeing their plight in the recent past, I was expecting them to respond differently. Allowances were reduced, overtime payments were not paid and to add injury to insult, part of their meager salary have been taken away even without their proper consent. I am no longer an overseas foreign worker and their plight is similar to the government servants. Their privileges have been drastically reduced and now they want to come back to their own country because most have lost their jobs due to Covid outbreak but the authorities are not allowing them to return instead they are being ridiculed as undesirables with no value to the country. How many have died over there due to Covid and taking one’s own life due to financial worries due to lose of work are everyone’s guess. Sure enough, they have no voice and or voting rights while staying over there but what about their loved ones still in this country. How their relatives and loved ones have expressed their d...

There are two incidents taking traction in social media these days. The first one is match-fixing allegation. The second one is the Sampath Bank  incident. First thing first and let’s get to the match-fixing issue first. An accusation was made by a prominent politician and some sort of an inquiry was held. The finding of the inquiry was that no credible evidence to pursue the matter more, hence no further charges and or inquiries to be made. Now the accuser is asking for another inquiry. I think it will be a waste of time and waste of public money too because in this country no guilty will ultimately be punished, even one is found guilty by any inquiry if he or she has good political connections. Now, most social media are awash with showing support to the players and lambasting the accuser. Incidentally, one of the players and the accuser is from the same region of the country. Let us see those who pledge support for the players are capable of walking their ...

To whom one should cast his or her vote in the upcoming general election one’s own prerogative and it should not be divulged in public too. ඔබේ චන්දය රහස්ය සහ වැදගත් එකක්. එය කා වෙනුවෙන්ද දිය යුත්තේද කියා තිරණය කිරීම ඔබ සතුයි. එය එලිකිරීමට මැළි වන්න. But there is no harm in discussing it in public to whom one should not cast his or her vote. නමුත් එය නොලැබිය යුත්තේ කවුදැයි කියා කතා කිරීමට මැළි නොවන්න. Here are my red flags and if anyone is red flagged during scrutiny; he or she will not get my vote for sure. මගේ චන්දය පහත ක්රියාවන්යේ නියැලෙන්නන් හට නොලැබේ. • Someone with Blood on his or her hand or having the backing of those who have blood on their hands, o අතේ ලේ ගෑවුන කෙනෙකුට හෝ අතේ ලේ ගෑවුන කංඩායම් නියෝජිතයෙකුට, • Those who are involved in dealing with deadly drugs and or having direct links or financial connections to such persons’ or entities, o සමාජය වනසන කුඩු රකුසා සමග ගනදෙනු කරන හෝ එවැන්නන් ඇසුරු කරන්නන්, • Those who are involved in dealing with arms a...

Today I went to Homagama Tele Shop to pay my telephone bill. A long queue has already formed there and I had to join the queue after going through the cleaning up process. The instructions at the clean up station were all written only in English and graphics too were bit confusing to say the least. Then, I heard someone telling that to pay at the Kiosks, one needs not to queue up. Just go and feed the machine. Those machines were lined up near the entrance in the corridor. The body temperature was checked before I was allowed in to that area. My attempts to pay at the Kiosk were not successful and then the lady who was trying to do the same at the other Kiosk told “these Machines do not accept any notes”. So, I stopped feeding process and decided to join the queue again. At the entrance, the lady security was yelling at everyone to “Remove Footwear” before enter the carpeted office. My first impression was that, it was because of the last rain and the puddles left ...