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Daily Financial Times
Daily Financial Times
Anura Kumara Dissanayake M.A. Sumanthiran Sajith Premadasa Bullock-drawn kerosene carts are back in Colombo, a scene I last saw 60 years ago. Ubiquitous queues we saw 45 years ago. Patchy, yellowed fields we never saw. Symbols of a Great Leap Backward. President GR recently visited Ruvanwelisaya in the company of Army chief General Shavendra Silva. Dutugemunu began his victorious long march only after ascertaining that his kingdom’s granaries were full of rice. With this President’s policies, the harvest won’t produce full granaries. Here’s his silver bullet: “The Army has been sent in to impl…