ජේ.ආර්.ගෙන් ඉගෙන ගැනීම
Ivan argues that the government won the battle over the Chief Justice at a ruinous cost, leaving constitutional interpretation and the writ jurisdiction hollow. He faults the judges and lawyers for fighting like a political party, recalls the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear his own challenge to Sarath N. Silva’s appointment, and draws a close parallel between Mahinda Rajapaksa’s removal of Shirani Bandaranayake and J.R. Jayewardene’s stripping of Sirimavo Bandaranaike’s civic rights, warning that Jayewardene’s drive for unchangeable power ended in Black July, two insurrections and his own humiliation.
නීතිය අතට ගැනීම
In Galle, a gang that robbed a woman of her jewellery as she was swept away on the day of the tsunami was caught by local people, who beat its leader to death before the police arrived. However brutal the man, Ivan argues, the crowd took over the work of the police and the courts because it had lost faith in both, and some police officers were themselves looting. Further notes deal with the Chief Justice and the tsunami, the Science and Technology Minister’s account of the warnings, whether the sea should be treated as a demon, and helping survivors rebuild on their own land.