Living with a life of contradictions by Chaturanga Bandaranayake
A Chinese proverb once said “a wise man can see more from the bottom of the well, than a fool from the top of a mountain”. Peace in Sri Lanka is much the same as this proverb. To put it bluntly for the past quarter of a century, it has been a land plagued by a people who believe that indeed wisdom can be seen from the top of a mountain.
Both sides do not see the real cost of war, for the future generations of a country in which much of its people still struggle to live from day to day. For twenty three years of my life, all I hear from people is a fondness of the past, when Sri Lanka had a potential to be a prosperous country in which it believed in its place among the community of nations. But as a generation grown up in the midst of war, this fondness comes with a very shallow promise of a future
