When 'soorya' moved from 'Meena to Mesha'...

We Sri Lankans celebrated yet another New Year! For Sri Lankans, the traditional new year dawns, as 'the sun' makes the move from Meena rasi to mesha rasi, giving fresh thoughts, ideas full of prosperity, to the well being of the society. This year too, having the above ‘prosperity’ part in the back of our minds, we Sri Lankans, all the Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, Burghers and other national and religious communities were preparing themselves to celebrate ‘the new era’. Those who want to make political advantage, even from a single fart will obviously make this an opportunity to stressfully state, it is because of them, the Sri Lankans this time would celebrate the New Year in a country with no war and no terrorists. The week before the ‘avurudhu’ week, I myself visited several fashion chains to get myself equipped with 'new clothes'. There were thousands of people, who were seeking new clothes, and I found it difficult to pick the designs and colors which I was ex...