Words didn’t fall from the sky. They were coined. They contain histories. They are the landmark products of thought processes, the rest-signs of journeys. They move on, long after we die. They were something else centuries ago and they will be something else centuries from now as human being twist, turn, defined and redefine as appropriate to moment, place, culture and prerogative(s) at hand.
Udaya Gammanpila’s historic ‘double-cross’ topped all crossover stories last week. Just days after lambasting the President and the Government when his party left the ruling coalition, Western Provincial Council member of the Jathika Hela Urumaya rubbished the positions he himself had previously defended. All those who crossed party lines pleaded ‘principles’. Gammanpila spoke the word a tad more sweetly than the less eloquent. What was said was ‘principle’ but some may have heard it as ‘self interest’.
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