The goings on in Sri Lanka.

The latest that one hears is that ex-President Gottabaya Rajapakse has fled to Singapore, he and his family did shopping - obviously with the money that he'd plundered from the national exchequer - and then sent in his resignation. WHAT A CHEAPO? He will have to ultimately answer his people's court for his shenanigans and see as to what they give him as retribution!

Military Urges Political Resolution

Sri Lanka's military and police requested the Speaker of Parliament to call an all-party leaders' meeting and inform them of the steps they will take to ensure a political resolution to the "current conflict". The Chief of Defence Staff made a special appeal to the people to support the three forces and the police to maintain law and order. Earlier, the troops stood with their weapons lowered in the grounds of the prime minister's office doing nothing to halt the huge mass of people wandering through the compound.

No Medicines, Don't Get Sick or Injured, Lankans Told 

That's the advice doctors in Sri Lanka are giving patients as the country's economic crisis leaves its health care system short of drugs and other vital supplies. A few doctors have turned to social media to try to get donations of supplies or the funds to buy them. They are also urging Sri Lankans living overseas to help. Sadly there's no sign of an end to the crisis.

Opposition Asks Ranil to Step Down

Sri Lanka's opposition has asked Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to quit.

My take

What a sad situation! An orderly country has suddenly become chaotic with no mature yet firm leadership that can take the country out of the morass it has let itself in. It's gonna be a slow and painful exercise to get back to normalcy with more than adequate help from the rest of the world, through a UN-backed plan.

Tailpiece.

Got up at 6, to heavy rains. The chores and was ready by a half past 9.

A quiet day. Lekha and I had gone out to town to buy grocery, fruit basket and other sundries around 11 o'clock.

Lekha and her sister went to the Guruvayur temple, at 4 in the evening, to have a 'darshan' and returned after about an hour and a half.