Left-nationalism and the toxic road to poverty
There is an incredible photograph doing the rounds these days of a lone, older man, supported by a walking stick, pointing his phone’s camera at the recently leased Airbus A330-200 as it flew low over Colombo on a bright Wednesday morning to much fanfare. The caption to the photo reads, loosely translated, “a Sri Lankan who has never been on a plane but has to pay off the losses of an airline”.
