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Why?

Why the dickens, not? 

Monday, March 21, 2005

Let me take you by the hand, walk you through the streets of ...

Take a two hour bus-ride in any direction from the Pettah bus stand, and the country changes, noticably. The people change. Take the trouble to understand, no, (that's too strong a word) observe, and its plain that these people have very different lives. Their daily routines, needs and aspirations are far removed from the artificial sri lankanism of Colombo.

Nothing new. All of us know this simple truth. But yet, most of us, who live in this fake sms, internet, 20k+ monthly income, pub, cheap chinese food joint, coffee joint sri lanka deem ourselves worthy to wax eloquent on whats good for these people. To get away from our artificial hussle-bussle, to de-stress ourselves or just out of sheer boredom we see fit to theorise on problems that we have not an iota of understanding on, with all the seriousness of putting these plans into action if only we had the power to do so. Thank god, i say, that we don't have the power!

I really wonder what the world thinks of our country. Colombo and Colombo sentiments, official and unofficial, constitute the most poorly designed presentation layer of any system I have come across, and the systems i've come across are pretty darn bad.

I am not a Sri Lankan! I have seen, really seen, very little of it, though I've been to most parts of the country. I have no knowledge of what an average Sri Lankan is. I do not know what is good for them. I will not pontificate!

....

until I understand.

urped by gumz @ 12:38 AM


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