With a separatist war now behind him, President Mahinda Rajapaksa appears poised to engage personally on many a political and economic war.
That he is flexing his presidential muscles somewhat toughly on a number of these issues confronting his administration became more evident this week.
The resurgent economy in the North should not be a mere revival of the economy that was there before the war but an economy vastly different in structure and performance. The last thirty years have seen astounding global changes, structural changes in our economy, social transformations and new opportunities.
