{"id":155190,"date":"2015-12-31T20:36:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T15:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=155190"},"modified":"2016-01-05T11:29:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T05:59:38","slug":"a-lookback-on-2015-may-you-live-in-interesting-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-lookback-on-2015-may-you-live-in-interesting-times\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lookback On 2015: May You Live In Interesting Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Yudhanjaya+Wijeratne&amp;x=12&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Yudhanjaya Wijeratne<\/span><\/a> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_141960\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Yudhanjaya-Wijeratne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141960\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-141960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Yudhanjaya-Wijeratne-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Yudhanjaya Wijeratne \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Yudhanjaya-Wijeratne-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Yudhanjaya-Wijeratne-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yudhanjaya Wijeratne<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They say the Chinese have a curse: may you live in interesting times.<\/p>\n<p>We Sri Lankans have definitely been cursed by the Chinese. This isn\u2019t just a pun on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Port+City&amp;x=11&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Port City<\/span><\/a>: In the space of one year we, as a nation, have toppled a dictatorship, installed another one, cried out against Saudi Arabia and argued passionately the subject of bras being thrown at concerts. We\u2019ve watched from afar as the specter of war spread throughout the world. We\u2019ve battled inflation, corruption, and idiots crossing the street. Interesting times, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t deny that much of it\u2019s been disappointing, especially the political situation. While still nowhere near as bad as the Rajapakse regime, the current government seems to be well on its way to proving that the leopard is truly incapable of changing its spots. But all that aside, as the year draws to a close, I\u2019d like to make a few notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sri Lanka is (still) not a truly multicultural society, but we\u2019re getting better<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Consider the current situation: certain parts and social circles of Colombo are multicultural, but the rest of the country is a mess. Pockets of \u201cSinha Ley\u201d Buddhists over there, pockets of visually segregated Muslims over here, the Hindus hanging out doing their own thing over there, Catholics in their own communities over here, and so on. People only really associate within their bubbles, and assimilate only with reluctance.Colombo is a good example: Colombo 03, 04 and 07 are multi-cultural, and the rest of the city is largely racially segregated into communities. In the same way that Kandy is largely Sinhala Buddhist turf, Dehiwala, Wellawatte and Attidiya are Hindu \/ Muslim. While culturally diverse, we haven\u2019t really melded together that well.That\u2019s largely a problem of mentality. Right now, we seem to be in a curious limbo where we\u2019re celebrating our differences more than our similarities. Case in point, the current crop of \u201cSinha Ley\u201d stickers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sinha-Le.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-155191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sinha-Le.jpg\" alt=\"Sinha Le\" width=\"639\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sinha-Le.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sinha-Le-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sinha-Le-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sinha-Le-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a>Nevertheless, we\u2019ve come a long way since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bodu+Bala+Sena&amp;x=7&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BBS<\/span><\/a>\u2019s rise to fame. Perhaps I\u2019m being optimistic, but social media seems to be playing a large part in this. It\u2019s difficult to maintain a narrow mind when there\u2019s an outpouring of thoughts around the ceremonies, cultures and philosophies of other beliefs. Not impossible, but difficult. I hope our generation \u2013 the first real digital generation of this country \u2013 will break down the rest of these barriers completely.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This country is massively sexist and frustrated, and the media is ignoring this issue<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sexism \u2013 and sexual frustration, in the guise of culture, pervades every level of society, right down from the \u201cah nangi\u201d from the tuk-tuk driver to the President of the country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sex-and-love-show-cultural-police-sirisenas-family-was-there-but-he-attacks-organisers\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ranting on about bras<\/span><\/a>. Often, it\u2019s not even hostile racism; it\u2019s so ingrained that it\u2019s entirely unconscious. A waiter will bring the bill to the man at the table, regardless of whether the woman paid. A newspaper article will introduce a businesswoman by first mentioning her father or her husband. This is, after all, a country where a newspaper ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceylontoday.lk\/90-90741-news-detail-malini-and-paba-in-trousers-mid-night-shoot-in-parliament.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">an article<\/span><\/a> saying that two female Parliamentarians wore pants during a protest.The fault is not just in the men, but in the society that produced them and reinforces their beliefs; a society of fathers <em>and<\/em> mothers that raised children to believe someone making themselves look good was a whore. A society that somehow went from microskirts in the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s to a religiously puritanical outlook on life in the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s. And, even more surprisingly, a society that speaks of \u201cpreserving culture\u201d while ignoring the fact that one of its most famous religious monuments (Sigiriya) is basically a castle-sized porn display.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sigiriya.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-155193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sigiriya.jpg\" alt=\"Sigiriya\" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sigiriya.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sigiriya-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a>These basic issues, rather frustratingly, are being ignored by the media, and are left largely to satirists and activists on social media. A common trend is to blame everything on Colombo\u2019s adoption of \u201cwestern morals\u201d and the degradation of all that is good and holy. Nevertheless, as Pasan Weerasinghe pointed out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Halobuff\/posts\/10154560565468357\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">recently<\/span><\/a>, <em>in the calendar year of 2014, out of a reported 2008 cases of rape\/incest in Sri Lanka, Colombo has contributed to the tally a grand total of 26. At the same time, [the] Police division for the sacred city of Anuradhapura has reported 133 cases<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This does indeed beg the question: why indeed are we protecting such a culture \u2013 a culture of such hypocrisy that porn sites are blocked while Sigiriya\u2019s bare-breasted women are shown in glorious technicolour to every young schoolchild?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The lack of proper media platforms is startling<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where does one get their news from these days? Colombo Telegraph is a free-for-all frenzy. DailyFT is unreadable ever since they changed their website. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ada-derana-calls-president-maithripaka\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ada Derana just called Maithripala \u201cMaithripaka\u201d<\/span><\/a>. Daily News does sentences like <em>\u201chot on the heels of the hullabaloo over the budget which went through a series of unprecedented amendments that was embarrassing for the government and for Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake in particular, last week saw an incident involving high profile United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra.\u201d<\/em> The Daily Mirror just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/101223\/end-of-the-road-for-high-speed-internet-in-sl\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ran a story<\/span><\/a> about the National Broadband Policy with no backing, no sources and apparently no credibility. I\u2019m no Shakespeare, but goddamit, it should be a crime to publish something so blatantly unreadable. Standards have slipped so far that they\u2019re practically skating to hell now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screenshot_22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-155192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screenshot_22.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot_22\" width=\"639\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screenshot_22.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screenshot_22-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a>Part of this problem is that journalism in Sri Lanka does not pay. Inevitably, the talented writers migrate, most of them flirting with the adveritising industry.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, new media may be stepping in. Roar.lk\u2019s roundups are increasingly more readable, and Yamu.lk seems to have things covered as far as events in Colombo go. However, these platforms have nowhere near the maturity and machinery that established platforms have. Lake House, Wijeya, start paying your employees better. Rs 15,000 salaries are not going to cut it \u2013 that\u2019s bus money.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>We have railed against Saudi Arabia and won, and disturbing things have been said<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How often is it that public outcry actually has a short-term, tangible impact overseas? Not often. Nevertheless, our outcry for that woman sentenced to be stoned in Saudi Arabia resulted in her life being spared. That\u2019s a win, Sri Lanka. That\u2019s a win.Out of this incident, though, a darker result emerged \u2013 people who advocate and believe in this kind of brutal violence in the name of holy law. At the risk of sounding racist, let me say this: religion should be tolerated and welcomes, but violence in the name of religion should be stamped out wherever possible. We haven\u2019t done a great job of it \u2013 the BBS come to mind \u2013 but the last thing we need are Sharia apologists in this country. Anyone with a fetish for cutting off heads and beating up women with stones should be sent packing.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t seem to find anyone who tells me 2015 was uneventful. A bad year, yes. Boring, no. People I know have found jobs, fallen in love, fallen out of love, started companies, gotten married, et cetera, et cetera. Some of them have stayed in our lives. Others have left. And some friendships, like infections, have festered. I\u2019ve traveled, gotten tattooed, changed jobs, swung lightsabers and had my beliefs questioned. Time, that lunatic doctor, heals the old wounds and opens up new ones. This summary seems paltry in comparison.<\/p>\n<p>What we can and should do is to take all of that what we\u2019ve experienced and point it, in our own ways, towards fixing these problems with Sri Lanka. They need not be grand, sweeping changes with policy documents attached. It needs to be one step at a time. In 2016, go experience a festival from each religion. Talk an extremist out of his views. Put up a status abouts sexism. Make sure all your male friends see it. Share news worth talking about instead of yet another bathroom selfie. Little changes, like little drops of water, have the potential for great change.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting times, indeed. Here\u2019s to an interesting 2016.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Yudhanjaya Wijeratne is a contributor to Colombo Telegraph, his articles can be found on his blog, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/icaruswept.com\">icaruswept.com<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":141960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Lookback On 2015: May You Live In Interesting Times - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-lookback-on-2015-may-you-live-in-interesting-times\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Lookback On 2015: May You Live In Interesting Times - 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