Posted on February 14th, 2021
By Rohana R. Wasala
The
73rd anniversary of independence was officially celebrated in Colombo on
February 4 with some of the accustomed pomp and pageantry associated with the
event. Faced by the still rampant Covid menace and the looming economic and
political crises, the current regime, which is still struggling to reach its
cruising altitude, couldn’t have done better in the circumstances. This is so,
particularly, in view of the fact that today the relevance of celebrating the
1948 dominion status independence to the emerging Sri Lanka is increasingly
coming into question. The independence anniversary has become a virtual political-cultural