Spending the afternoon listening to live 'Barefoot Jazz' and musing on 56yrs of life, whilst Prasanna shots away on the camera.
What now faces civil society actors here is not easy to contemplate. There seems little magnanimity only fears of further clamp downs. Just can't understand why, in such a beautiful country, civil society thinks of itself in such derogatory terms when it is really at the base of any democracy. A number of media personnel have disappeared - so no change on that front.
What now? Well that is anybody's guess. Some how I feel that real constitutional change isn't possible until a new spirit of tolerance and diversity is allowed to emerge and then seems as one of the positive characteristics of Sri Lanka and not something which undermines national identity. Umm I wonder will that ever be possible? Well I am always a person of hope and unlimited optimism.
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