Sri Lanka, March 4 -- Never in the Sri Lankan history had a government faced such a plethora of hot issues, at once, at its beginning, as faced by the current national People's Power (NPP) government. Similarly, never in the history had a government really wanted a "system change" including the change in the thinking pattern of politicians, officialdom, and the ordinary people.

The government's process of system change too has created many issues in almost all sections of the state machinery as expected.

Within a week after NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake assumed office as the President, his government had to encounter a huge shortage of rice which was followed by shortages of several other essential items including eggs and coconuts....