The country’s ‘palace’ has received a plethora of complaints from a cross-section of the society saying that a certain state-owned media institution is airing programmes calculated to denigrate certain deities being worshipped by a large of number believers in the country.
A certain talkative top team member hailing from Uva was berating a onetime powerful politician during the debate on the Budget 2017, when a colleague seated close to him prompted him: “Machang, say something about the ‘prince’ too. What a hard time he gave us then!”
There are occasions when the proceedings in the august assembly are televised live and it invariably happens whenever a VIP either from the government or the opposition takes the floor. Whenever such a key figure rises to his feet to address the council, there are three young members who have made it a habit to scramble for the vacant seats behind the speaker expecting to get into the focus of video cameras to be turned on him.
It is a commonplace practice among the ordinary people in this country to seek the grace of a popular guardian deity whenever they find themselves in some difficulty. But the politicians and their family members would usually find a way out of any jam through the influence of a higher political authority. However, an exceptional case where the better half of a purohita had sought the grace of a popular guardian deity to secure the release of her
It made sensational news when certain authorities took out a lease on a building for a hefty monthly rent of some Rs.290 million to house a high office handling the country’s agriculture. They also had paid the film star owning the building a large sum of money as an advance payment as well.
When the top team met for the weekly ritual the other day, one member had asked the colleague handling law enforcement what had become of the investigations launched into the mysterious death that occurred at the residence of a fire-spitting JO stalwart. The colleague had replied that the delay in getting the analyst’s report had held up the investigations.
A group of employees of an august institution who were recently at a meeting with the institution’s white collar heavyweights had not been allowed to bring up for discussion a case of embezzlement of Rs.100 million from the institution’s savings and thrift society.
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