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Home » ColumnsThe scientific art of the reshuffle waffle
Dusk has fallen on the nation’s political landscape. And, in the twilight glow, the people can only see, hear and feel the last gasps of the coalition government as it desperately struggles to find the few remaining breaths available to it before it is accorded the last rites and receives a merciful end in death. [...]
A not so scientific juggling act
My Dear Maithri and the Green Man, I thought I must write to you to congratulate you on the second Cabinet reshuffle. We have seen many reshuffles but I must say this reshuffle is like no other because it is just that – only a reshuffle with no new faces joining the team. So, you [...]
Dramatic big bribery drama at Taj park: Like a detective thriller
When an Indian businessman walked with two stuffed bags in his hands to the parking lot at Hotel Taj Samudra, two senior bureaucrats were waiting anxiously in the backseat of a car on Thursday. The duo – Dr I.K. Mahanama, Chief of Presidential Staff at the Presidential Secretariat, and P.D. Dissanayake, Chairman of the State [...]
Implementing an agreed agenda vital to face economic challenges
The May Day cabinet reshuffle was not a great leap forward or even a turning of a new leaf. The changes did not inspire much confidence. The expectation of a stronger cabinet has hardly been achieved by the reshuffling of cabinet portfolios. Hopefully, the revised allocation of functions that it is expected to be gazetted [...]
‘A festering sore on the face of the Supreme Court’
As one of New Delhi’s renowned constitutional lawyers commented acerbically if not ominously to me, ‘the matter will not end with this…it is a festering sore on the face of our Supreme Court which needs swift surgical treatment, not political tinkering.’ A ‘stunning’ judicial mutiny This remark was made in the course of a casual [...]
Jokers as politicians and political clowns
The mighty deed, they say, has at last been done. The Great Reshuffle is complete. The world saw, turned on its side and sighed, and returned to sleep, tired of Sri Lankan gimmickry. I remember an old Latin saying which, in English, went something like this — the mountains are in labour and the result [...]
Coalition in do-or-die battle to win back hearts and minds of the people
Even more significant than his ministerial reshuffle, President Maithripala Sirisena made clear days ago will be his Tuesday’s policy statement — a virtual common programme for his government’s remaining tenure. It assumes greater importance in the light of remarks he made during an address to Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) candidates for the last local [...]
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