The Bill Comes Due
Vishwamithra’s article is aimed at AKD and the NPP, but the real target is bigger than one government. It is aimed at the dangerous little habit Sri Lanka has of turning public pain into campaign property. Aragalaya was not a logo. It was not a slogan. It was not an election backdrop. It was not a convenient moral costume for the next group of rulers to wear while asking everyone else to wait. People did not stand in queues, cook in darkness, watch their savings rot, march under fear, and shout a president out of office so that a new political class could learn the old trick with better vocabulary. The article says the country began a “journey of correction and transformation.” Fine. Then correct. Then transform. Do not inherit the fire and sell the ashes as progress.
