Monday, September 29, 2014

Mahindavādaya, Mahinda-Vadaya And Wirathu-Āgamanaya

(Mahinda-Ideology, Mahinda-Affliction and the Arrival of Wirathu)
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“The government has turned us into orphans in our own motherland.”
Boralesgamuwa farmers affected by the Weras-Ganga Project (Lankadeepa – 24.9.2014)
( September 29, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s latest beautification project, the Weras-Ganga Development, with walkways and a food court, was declared open with much fanfare this month. Jackson Anthony, dramatist turn sycophant, used the occasion to proclaim that the time has come to upgrade Mahinda Chinthanaya (Mahinda Thought) to Mahindavādaya (Mahindaism – Mahinda Ideology) .