In imminent, immediate distress; May Day! May Day!
This writer is not ashamed to confess that the words ‘holy shit’ did escape his lips when some TV channel briefly and fleetingly displayed the human mass gathered, assembled or herded in to Galle Face Green. State-owned Rupavahini was showing the SLFP rally in Kandy. State-owned ITN was transmitting live the proceedings of the UNP rally at Borella. In the age of digital technology such contempt for democratic dissent only helped exacerbate the resentment of the citizenry with