Never waste a crisis

An opportunity to learn lessons and build a stronger Sri Lanka

- By Raj Gonsalkorale

THE efforts being taken by the Government to restore and rebuild the country is quite evident although political detractors are doing their best to capitalise on the misery of millions of people who have and still are suffering.

The message for President Dissanayake from all well-meaning people no doubt will be, as President Putin said recently, “look to the future and not the past, and not just do what is necessary, but more importantly, do things you have no right not to do for the sake of the country”

A special reference is made to Ali Sabry's statement (https://x.com/alisabrypc/ status/1996591205615063050) considering that he is the only non-Government politician who has said something sensible and futuristic as to how all Sri Lankans should view the tragedy that has befallen the country.

A point of view for every sensible citizen

While Opposition politicians, some commentators, and some media organisations as well as some responsible, educated citizens are behaving like bystanders around a person on the road who has been hit by a car and is seriously injured, enquiring who the persons father is, whether he is Sinhala or Tamil or Muslim, why he was on the road at the time he was hit, how he could have avoided the accident had he been walking on the pavement rather than on the road, and similar inopportune idiotic questions, without rushing the person to a hospital,

Mr Sabry has articulated a point of view that every sensible citizen of the country should take heed of.