![]() ![]() The people never voted for Wickremesinghe as Sri Lanka’s leader because they never trusted him with the country’s destiny, especially after his infamous Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) which abjectly appeased Prabhakaran and the Tigers. Had this island been physically contiguous with the subcontinent, Buddhism would not have found a durable refuge here when it had been reversed in India after the glorious Ashokan era, and the Mahavamsa would have had a more tragic tale to tell or may not have existed at all. Hanuman’s bridge was the equivalent of Ulysses’ Trojan Horse. In The Iliad of Asia, the Ramayana, the mythical monkey-God Hanuman had to build an artificial bridge between India and the island of Lanka so that a hostile force could cross and defeat Ravana, the great Lankan leader. Making his remarks at a press conference in New Delhi, the Indian Foreign Secretary said that in terms of connectivity projects, the idea was proposed by the Sri Lankan President.” ( Land connectivity proposal came from SL President- Indian Foreign Secretary - Top Story | Daily Mirror) The President came up with the same proposal for the construction of a bridge between the two countries when he was the Prime Minister between 20. “Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra said land connectivity between India and Sri Lanka was proposed by Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe. He is trying to change a protective geographic reality of millennia with one stroke of the pen: the island character of Sri Lanka which has not only afforded us protection but more importantly permitted, our island to evolve its distinctive identity, civilisation, culture and way of being. Unelected President Ranil Wickremesinghe has done better. Jayewardene notoriously said that as executive president there was nothing he couldn’t do other than turn a man into a woman and vice versa. It will also surely record the dialectic of resistance until the island’s identity and independent destiny, its autonomous path and story, the sovereignty of its people over their island-home, are restored. Whose island is this anyway? The recently UNESCO-registered Mahavamsa may record that on 21 July 2023 (or its equivalent in Buddha varsha) an unelected, accidental ruler named Ranil Wickremesinghe sold Sri Lanka for adoption to the ruler of the neighbouring giant, India. India-Sri Lanka Economic Partnership Vision, July 21st 2023, New Delhi . ![]() “…To establish land connectivity between Sri Lanka and India for developing land access to the ports of Trincomalee and Colombo…” ![]()
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