3rd April 2022
3rd April 2022 Musings……. SriLanka Burning What can gross mismanagement of the economy give you ? Well the answer is Sri Lanka. Once upon a time, this island nation was considered a budding tourist destination with a vibrant democracy. All this seems to have changed for the worse within a few years. Sri Lanka’s history as we all know has been a chequered one. There was long years of civil war between the Singhalese speaking Government and the Tamil speaking LTTE in broadly speaking terms. The centre and southern part of Sri Lanka is predominantly Singhalese speaking natives who form the majority and hold power in every government. The Tamil speaking minority is restricted to the North of Sri Lanka including in the district of Jaffna, and form the minority. This internal strife lasted for years and there seemed no respite. We Indians can never forget this as we lost one of our most dynamic Prime Ministers Shri. Rajiv Gandhi to a terrorist attack by the LTTE, for trying to