Sri Lanka, April 2 -- President Anura Kumara Dissanayake was quoted as saying in one of those election rallies: "It usually takes a decade for a bankrupt nation to make an economic comeback. But we have been able to turn around the Sri Lankan economy within a surprisingly short time."

This is both true and false.

True because Sri Lanka has shown a surprising degree of resilience through its darkest days of economic crisis.

The first six months of the AKD presidency are mercifully uneventful - and refreshingly lacking any efforts to make pie-in-the-sky promises of the JVP/NPP into reality

The country has risen from the nadir far quicker than the economic pundits and multi-lateral agencies have forecasted. After two consecutive years o...