Mine Tanker

 It has been more than three years since I wrote a blog.  Yes, three whole years.  I am alive, and have been in good health all these while. But somewhere somehow, I lost the motivation to write blogs. If you go through my previous blogs, you can clearly see I used to post my comments on the world affairs then. I used to post them on the feeling that I would be happy if at least a single person gets something of value from this site. But then, over time, I began to think- why am I writing, what change can I, a dork sitting in front of a screen, could do typing away words as if he would change the world using his words.  That was when I realized my eerie mind opened its rusty doors to the real political scenario. We are made to believe that we live in a political democracy, where the public governs. But is it so? In the past 75 years of India's independence, when have the people governed themselves? When have they been treated as the king by the so-called 'servants of...

On October 26, the President of Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena had sacked the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe and had appointed former President, Mahinda Rajapaksa with immediate effect. This came as a shocker for all the Sri Lankans and caused a widespread protest and riots. Sirisena was known to be a gentle person and little did they know that he was a 'wolf disguised in a sheep's clothing'. Maithripala Sirisena The fact to be noted is that the nation’s President and Prime Minister come from traditionally opposing parties that formed a surprise coalition in 2015 to oust the then-president Mahinda Rajapaksa, who many feared was becoming too powerful. In the past two years, this ruling coalition has started to fall apart. It is dysfunctional and unpopular with the Sri Lankan public. Since at least February this year, president Maithripala Sirisena has been searching for ways to remove the prime minister, Ranil Wickremasinghe. On October 26th, he...