Dudley Senanayake arrived in his home electorate of Dedigama riding an elephant following the March 1965 General Elections because Dedigama was his lifelong political stronghold & he first entered national politics by winning the Dedigama seat in 1936
It feels like Earth was designed perfectly for us, rain falling from the sky, food growing from the ground, yet somehow we’ve built a world where people need good credit scores, multiple jobs, and 40-hour workweeks just to survive
"Trickle down economics doesn't work, so let's try piñata economics. That's the one where we beat the billionaires until the hoarded wealth falls out."
The Australian High Commission in Colombo has beaten every other foreign mission to host the first Vesak “dansala”. From 10 a.m. tomorrow, it will hand out bottles of iced coffee. Duckworth’s @AusHCSriLanka is proving worthy, blending in from tuk rides to dhal, and now dansal.