by Kamala Gunasekera
courtesy Ranjit Abhayaratna
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Chapter 4: Island in Paradise by Premnath Moraes
Azadek was in a not so crowded bus plying from Colombo Fort to Narahenpita last Friday in the late morning hours, when a thin young man in his late thirties boarded the bus to tell a story. Not the usual type who begs, with a comparatively clean shirt and trouser and a clean shaved face, he said he was working for a private company and fell off a bus on the way to his village. He had hit his head that left him in hospital for over a month. Now he is partly cured, but has a nerve problem that has made his left arm and left leg partly paralyzed. Therefore, he said he has now to honour a vow his wife has made to God Katharagama with money collected from people. That was plain talk. He wasn’t begging. He was only collecting money from people to honour a vow made to God Katharagama. He thanked all the compassionate people in the bus, Azadek not included and walked away with a fair collection of rupee notes, some ten, some twenty and a note or two of rupees fifty too.
Gold diggers and murderers forsooth, the JVP is easily the most corrupt, hypocritical party that has walked the corridors of Sri Lanka’s parliament. Split by envy and hatred even against each other, the party is governed by humans that can be described in one word – evil.
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