The Deconstruction of a Supremacist

Photo via Al Jazeera

• by Anura Gunasekera 
• - on 08/27/2015

Notwithstanding his rise to ultimate  power as a politician in this country,  Mahinda Rajapaksa retains the mindset of  an uneducated peasant , in this instance  from Giruwapattuwa. Despite being one of the most shrewd, and one of the most successful  political manipulators in the short independent history of this country, he opts to place his faith in necromancy, soothsaying, the casting of bones and the reading of entrails, rather than in the intelligence of his political sense. This is absolutely  no reflection on the Giruwapattuwa peasant who, under all normal circumstances, would be a splendid individual and a decent , honest, law-abiding citizen; that is, until he becomes the President of Sri Lanka.

The Deconstruction of a Supremacist by Thavam Ratna