Country Without Vision

Country Without Vision

Our country is blessed with natural beauty.

To begin with it is not land locked but L.T.T.E wanted artificial borders to administer with Indian hegemony and secret service, RAW creating and helping it.

Currently under the aegis of lunatic fringes of sand stormed countries wanted it segregated and become political and religious desert. There are no democracies in these sand stormed countries with arcane laws, an antitheses common law.

We have four or five religions, none of them I call as great, since they are practiced in negative sense.

All of them have few positive but many negative social ingredients and we only extract negative ingredients including hate to practice.

Some counties in Asia with sand storm and no rain for over 10 years, the inhabitants are running away from advancing desert looking pastures for domesticated animals.

We have dry seasons but no arid zones.

We are near the equator with sunshine and rain year round.

In spite of all these blessings, gradually the rain is failing and patches of arid lands are forming affecting our majestic elephants.

China is the only country which has vigorous policy against desertification of land.

This is all due to felling of trees and commercially non viable agriculture (mono-culture-rice is one of them) policy started by C.P. De Silva and vigorously exploited in the last 10 years by the previous regime (especially cutting trees for timber without a replanting schedule).

Our biodiversity and forests are disappearing fast, thanks to tea industry and recently banana growing for Americans.

Banana and many of the exotic plants (cashew, pomegranate and soursop, included) were brought in by European invaders.

Banana plant is the most invasive plant and one cannot even grow another banana plant in a place where soil resources are exhausted in one or two seasons.

Then we add excess of poisonous fertilizer with all the heavy metals percolating into the rivers and lakes.

One cannot find even Guppy fish in Kandy (this is due to the detergents escaping from the washing machines of domestic use) water paddles collected in the city soon after heavy rain.

The detergents poison gills of fish and they suffocate in ten minutes.

Our only safety valve to control mosquito menace is decimated. 

 

Kunu Ela rightly named by me as Condom Ela, one can see underwear and condoms (in addition to diesel) floating and they get trapped in the water intake of Kandy city purification plant.

All these we call progressive steps.

What we lack is politicians who could mange problems in a cohesive manner.

Can the “Third Force” take these problems including corruption?

That is the million dollar question?