Members of the Sri Lankan diaspora, people like my family, have been noticeably quiet about the upheavals in their former homeland.
A casual friend, with the same family name as the deposed and disgraced rulers, assures me, ‘But we are not like them.’
Watching television reports of the people flooding through the opulent homes of the families who ruled the island, one can’t help thinking, this is how it always ends, how People Power toppled the Marcos regime in Manila, how centuries earlier, a French mob stormed the Tuileries.
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