‘Aragala Bhoomiya’ When the people entered the battlefield (Arakala Bhoomiya), they asked, “Abi Payyatta?” That hears a voice from the loudspeaker. “Ne … ne …” those around shout. (“Are we scared?” “No no …”) The popular battlefield around the Presidential Secretariat and in the Galle Face Stadium is an important form of political protest. Their historical mistake is that the Rajapaksa company underestimated it. The vast majority of those there are the younger generation. It was the moral outrage that their future had been looted that drove them. It is…
