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| Sunday, 29 January 2006 |
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Talking Point Pathfinder publishes compendium of Mahoshada's writing was the news item of a Sunday newspaper last week. High profiled publicity and a foreword by a former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka have obviously raised the question of the mysterious author of this publication. A politician who considers himself as the "leader in waiting" is making a valiant attempt to gain credit for the authorship so that there is another feather in his cap in the process of building his image. But however much he tries to do so, it is clear that he is not capable of writing such essays on a weekly basis. Now the talking point is that the author is none other than the same person who prepared the ill fated Regaining Sri Lanka policy document. He is a US citizen who still hangs around with a selected group from Siri Kotha and was given a contract to promote Ranil's Presidential campaign through his column and discredit Mahinda Chintanaya. In order to cover his identity, a name from a Jataka story was aptly selected thinking that the identity could be kept a secret for ever. The theme of his essays is that the only way forward for Sri Lanka is with "Washington Consensus" as advocated by his baby - Regaining Sri Lanka. When in his own backyard in Latin America, this doctrine was out rightly rejected by six countries (including Chile at the recent elections) just as it was the case with India and Sri Lanka in 2004, he is engaged in this futile exercise because the payment from the INGO is attractive. He received a monthly salary above Rs. 2 million when working with the then Prime Minister during the two and a half years of the UNF regime. Perhaps the new deal must be equally attractive to keep him going in Sri Lanka said one wag. Aren't there any local economists at Siri Kotha to do this type of work? Do you need a alien columnist to do such a job?, are some of the questions floating around. Why this newspaper gives so much publicity in its core pages for this non-Sri Lankan path propagator - far from being a pathfinder - is also a talking point among many silent spectators. |
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