Wake me up when CHOGM ends
To be frank, I am a little bored with the nature of CHOGM bashing and all the hype in the western media, and I am really confused as to why the GOSL is bending over backwards to please the Commonwealth, which I thought was a pretty dead duck anyway. It was funny this last week when I was driving a visiting Indian colleague around the city, and she said looking at all the work that is going on on the streets of Colombo – “Oh, Commonwealth, Commonwealth.. not very different to the Games in Delhi.. incredible how the streets got cleared of rubble and the evidence of frentic labour overnight!” Maybe the Jewel in the Crown and its neighbours are still not free of our colonial shackles. Though of course pleasing the Commonwealth is perhaps not what it’s all about. It could just be about showing off to our own electorate. Much like the Al Jazeera interview, or the appearance on Hard Talk. And it could be about strengthening allianc...