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Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

What’s Left

  We are tired, and we have cooking gas now, and fuel shipments have docked. So we will get back to the business   of living and not worry anymore about the…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 08/11/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

To Survive, Even Thrive

  My country will survive corruption in parliament, arbitrary arrests ordered by the executive, bodies washing up at Galle Face, at the Beira Lake.   My country will survive farmers shooting elephants…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 08/08/2022
Colombo, Poetry, Politics and Governance

Governor, listen

Photograph by Marisa de Silva Father Jeewantha Peiris, Mahanama Thero, Joseph Stalin, from diverse denominations and political persuasions, are Aragalaya heroes, who called the bluff of the emperor,   leading to his…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 08/07/202208/07/2022
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

The State Versus The People

The State, knocked down in the early rounds of Aragalaya, is back, sparring and dodging and delivering upper cuts again as if nothing   has happened, as if the struggle is a…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 08/05/202208/05/2022
Colombo, Poetry, Politics and Governance

Dying in the Fuel Lines

Photo courtesy of Daily FT   When Gota ran away we raised arms and shouted gratitude to God, to fate, to a possible return from the nightmare but   his fleeing did not…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 07/31/202207/31/2022
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

Aragalaya March

  We walked for twenty kilometers and more from outlying suburbs, from neighborhoods in the city, on the way to the country’s maidan, to . We jumped into vans   with full…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 07/25/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

The Aragalaya Replies

  Why keep knocking at the front door of that house? Let go. Go away. Go to sleep   and wake up refreshed. Build your own door. Build your own house. Nobody…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 07/24/2022
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

Prayer for The Struggle

We are closing our eyes and we are opening them. We are walking about the house looking at photographs. We are calling old friends on the phone. Back at home 225 members…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 07/20/2022
Colombo, Poetry, Politics and Governance

The Candid Candidate

Yes, fantastic is right, wondrous. amazing the news. But there is some trepidation as well in my mind and heart. Parliament   may blow this chance. I pray they do not. If…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 07/18/2022
Colombo, Poetry, Politics and Governance

Listen to the Pulse

The people will not be robbed of their fundamental right to choose their leaders, and to discard them when they fail to lead,when they steal, when they ruin their charge. Extra-  …

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 07/17/2022
Colombo, Poetry, Politics and Governance

A New Map

He resigned by email. Was there an electronic signature made possible by DocuSign? Will that stand up before the court of history, of public opinion? Did the email come   from his…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 07/15/2022
Colombo, Poetry, Politics and Governance

Waiting by the Phone

The bird, the plane, the strong man, the “terminator” went to Male then to Singapore. He will get to Riyadh I understand. Where to house the fallen dictator?   Should the United…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 07/15/2022
Colombo, Poetry, Politics and Governance

The New Way

  Gota has gone. Mahinda has flown Basil forgot his passport. Chamal is wondering about in a fog. Namal, ah the great hope, the son, what happened to your Lamborghini?   What…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 07/13/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Poetry, Politics and Governance

To The New Administrator

The fourth wall has crashed and the audience is now on stage making tea and frying omelets in the kitchen, lounging on the guest beds, diving into the swimming pool. Unheard of,…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 07/10/2022
#GoHomeGota, Development, Economy, Poetry, Poverty

The Economics Of Poetry

  I will try to balance the books, moral and historical ones, caused by migration, that give me   a paycheck and put food and drink on the table, that keep my…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 06/18/202206/20/2022

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