And the award for the best production in the Bull Shit category goes to...

There is a TV program called “Aeevarai Dhaeevrai” which means going once, going twice (like in an auction). I saw that couple of times here and there and it was supposed to be about local resources and places of interest which are supposed to be being sold or something. I did not get to watch that program in detail until today. Today's program was about water resources and various people talked about the plans of the government about selling water resources to multi national companies. Most of the things these people were taking about were utter Bull Shit. They were talking about the ancient technology our ancestors had when they built the tanks (reservoirs) and how they are better than any technology the west has today and because of that how any multinational company cannot manage our tanks. I know the technology our ancestors had thousands of years ago when they built the tanks were quite ahead of the time and I am very proud about that. But saying that the technology in irrigation today is behind that old technology is utter stupidity. Those people might not have seen or heard about the Hoover dam in USA or the internal water ways in former USSR where sometimes you can drive your car underneath a canal where huge ships travel. This is making mockery of our ancestors. Those people were talking about how the government is planning to sell water resources to water bottling companies and how our people would have to buy bottled water in the future. Do they think that the bottling companies take the entire flow of a huge river or the entire content of a tank? Most bottling companies take water from a spring or a tube well and compared to the ground water resources we have in our country that is negligible. One wise guy was taking about how Sri Lanka is having 3 times the rainfall or the entire world. I think this guy wanted to say that our country has 3 times the average annual rainfall of the world. Anyway that is not a big deal. There are countries that gets less than 12 mm of annual rainfall. (eg. Yemen) So compared to Yemen we get about 100 times more rain. Anyway, if we are getting that much amount of rain then there is nothing to worry about is there? Another guy was saying that in the future, people would have to pay to bathe in a tank. They were referring to IIMI about making the plans to sell the water to multinational companies. So IIMI is the scape goat. I really don't know whether the government is planning to sell the tanks or not but is sure sounds impossible for any company to put up a fence to prevent people from bathing in them even if they buy the entire tank outright. So this entire program has the hallmarks of Weerawansa productions. This program is suggesting that the UNP government (which is now a caretaker government) is selling public property to multinational companies. (They seem to have forgotten how the government under the president sold the SLT and Sri Lankan air lines which were making huge profits to foreign companies.) People are taking about how Vimal Weerawansa, the media secretary of JVP is holding meetings at ITN every morning about how the government media should be handled during that day. This is to make sure that the media help the SLFP/JVP alliance to win the election. So the media ministry under the president is going on full steam working against the UNP government. There had been a court ruling against the government media under the president to prevent them from discrediting the UNP. But it seems that this ruling does not have any effect on Weerawansa productions. So in the next TV awards ceremony this program Aeevarai Dhaeevarai could win an award if there were a category as Bull Shit or something.