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The Way it used to be\u00a0 \u00a0 ” a short story from “Rainbows in Braille” – A collection of short stories – By Elmo Jayawardena\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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\"\"This is no Englebert love song \u2013 it is something with much more meaning.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

The gram-sellers at Galle Face Green sold their \u2018kadala gotu\u2019<\/em> topped with \u2018isso wade\u2019<\/em> for twenty-five cents. The moviegoers at Savoy cinema came out; couples went to Aleric\u2019s for ice-cream and families miserly budgeted for Chinese fried rice at Golden Gate. Gunawardena opened batting for Tamil Union and Sunderalingam kept wickets for the Sinhalese Sports Club. This was once nostalgic Sri Lanka on easy street sans the raging war and the terrible turmoil; \u2018The way it used to be\u2019.<\/p>\n

The \u2018Yal Devi\u2019 took the Madhu pilgrims and the \u2018Ruhunu Kumari\u2019 carried the Kataragama clan. Marawila fishermen fished at Mulativ with the monsoon change and Lever\u2019s and Reckitt\u2019s Sales-Reps sold toothpaste in Jaffna and drank \u2018Tal Raa<\/em>\u2019 whilst bathing in the Keeramalai tank. The \u201cVale\u201d cart used to come down the Galle road at Wallewatte and the waiters worked double-time at the Sarasvati Lodge. The differences were there from the North to the South, but who cared? Nobody killed anyone. There was a life, simple and in peace. Bala Tampo took the CMU on strike every year and the Parliament changed colours every five years with mythological promises. That was acceptable. The queues got long at the CWE to buy \u201cJumping Fish\u201d and the bread prices leapt like high-jumpers. Those were our big problems.<\/p>\n

The smiles were there too, affordable to all and sundry, beat shows and big-matches, sports-meets and school-carnivals, all within a ten-rupee budget. Fashion wise, the pinnacle was the CR Havies match at Longdon Place; the Suesetts and Claudetts were there, dazzling in mini skirts, making their best attempts to get partnered to go to the Coconut Grove and jingo and jive to the Jetliners. Some made it to \u201cAkasa Kade\u201d too, to eat egg hoppers and hold hands and become more naughty whilst pretending to be watching the ships lights at the Colombo habour.<\/p>\n

There was peace; it was a long long time ago. That was before the Morris Minor taxis changed their English alphabet number plates.<\/p>\n

Then came the carnage. Who\u2019s to blame? Don\u2019t waste time, that\u2019s kicking the moon and corralling clouds. We all know better. We are all to be blamed, some for cheering and others for their silence.<\/p>\n

It has always been \u2018our soldiers\u2019 \u2013 but it is \u2018their war.\u2019<\/p>\n

The guns are still firing while the talks go on in Swiss towns and hope seeps slow like a weed-clogged wave. If the gods are kind, we\u2019ll have peace.<\/p>\n

Let it lie there.<\/p>\n

\u201cNorth and East must be separate,\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t give this,\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCan\u2019t have that,\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAutonomy? What nonsense?\u201d Such passionate phrases bellow from borrowed patriotism.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy son has to study,\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo no, not to join the Air Force.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cArmy? Are you mad?\u201d The same voices add the contradictions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must continue to fight at any cost.\u201d Brave words, quite cheap too when rights and wrongs are just \u201cwhys\u201d sprouting out from empty opinions on even emptier forums.<\/p>\n

Try telling all this to mothers who buried their sons or children who pray for their missing fathers. Voice it to a legless \u2018Boy\u2019 from Velvatathurai or a sightless soldier from Devundara. Or maybe to a lover who lights a candle for some forgotten fighter buried under swollen earth, too poor even for a gravestone.<\/p>\n

What does it matter to which side they belonged? They paid the price, we didn\u2019t. They shed the tears, we didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Let us then wish, no, that\u2019s not enough, let us pray, to all the Gods in creation for \u201cThe way it used to be\u201d to return.<\/p>\n

Or\u2026. let us be silent.<\/p>\n

We owe that much to the one\u2019s who died nameless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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