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Redeeming the country-by Victor Ivan The Government should create a suitable platform for all parties to come together and have a common dialogue on the situation. If the Government is not prepared to do so, at least the Opposition must take the initiative, join hands with the Government, and embark on a pragmatic program to overcome this challenge  Source:FT At present Sri Lanka lies in a pathetic state in which the cogwheels of the socio-political system, the economy and the State machinery itself have ceased to function due to extreme degeneration of all facets of the entire system. The attempt to gyrate the cogwheels by using the military has proved to be unsuccessful.  A breakdown of this magnitude is very rare and does not usually occur in any country. When such a situation arises it is important that the entire institutional system is subjected to a systematic structural reform process to ...