Post-Paada Yathra â Punditry and Polemics
Confusing friend and foe with right and wrong is an occupational hazard of partisan commentators. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka is no exception to the rule. Despite the voluntary stepping on a discursive banana skin, his latest essay ‘Politics – post-Paada Yathra – from here to 2020’, delivers some startlingly uncomfortable home truths to those in power.
As the ideologue of the Joint Opposition, he has decided to mentor his charges in the role of a Clau