Dudley and his Nephew
Book
published in 2010 by Ranil Senanayake
The
book is titled appropriately 'Clowns to the left of me Jokers
to the right and I am stuck in the middle again'
This should be translated into Sinhala and
Tamil, and should be given to all grand
children, if you have any.
Epilogue
2008!
Thirty
years after I first began to comment on our national preoccupation
with mindless consumption as 'development', stand before a country
addicted to fossil fuels for our existence. The creation of more ans
more fossil plants is being shown as a the way forward. Our
agriculture has been transformed into a system that cannot produce
without heavy input of artificial fertilizers. Our forestry is
reduced to the plantation of even aged monocultures of exotics and
the destruction of existing patches of native forest (to grow banana
for Americans to treat their constipation). Our endemic value system
and the culture reduced to a political tyranny (coming as Mahinda
Mama- should add another M in front but I would not be expressive -
reader is entitled to substitute his own interpretation) that
demonstrate the worst aspect of corruption and subverting social
values. The fear of nepotism that my uncle Dudley had in rejecting my
application to the Zoological Gardens seems like some silly little
emotion today-nepotism has become the way of power.
