The glamour and glitter of a military parade at the Galle Face Green on Wednesday evoked the sentiments of two different generations in two different ways.
It is perhaps the most unpalatable of truths that losing faith in an ideal is even more dangerous to a country's spirit and to an individual's conscience than actual loss of lives. After thirty years of active conflict and at this most crucial juncture in our history, have we (paradoxically) become the most vulnerable to shrugging aside the ideal of a functioning democracy and along with it, our reliance on constitutional forms of governance and the Rule of Law?
The stories emanating from the hermetically-sealed North Korea are the stuff of diplomatic legends. Described as one of the world's most closed societies, North Korea has always remained a political enigma.
