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Decision time: Pothuvil Vihara Maha Devi Archaeological Park – By Dr D. Chandraratna Source: Island In this time of uncertainty the preservation of the Vihara Maha Devi archaeological site has called for a weighty and important landmark decision from our leaders. Volatile times that we experience now may be called the worst of times and paradoxically the best of times. The time has arrived for political leaders with verve to sideline the oddballs who graced (perhaps disgraced) our hallowed chambers. In the new political landscape the central defining characteristic is rationality, where science and discipline has taken centre stage. Politics has become a vocation, a calling, suitable only to those with vision, sagacity and character. The obsessional neurotic character of our nation, which fluctuated between confidence and anxiety at the best of times, has been yearning for this moment to arrive. Unfortunately that arrived not with independence or any time since. It ...