Sri Lanka, Oct. 28 -- The people are ready for change that the Government must be contemplating after the passage of the 20th Amendment in Parliament.

People want work. But the avenues of employment are limited, to put it mildly. Those who wait hours by the curb hoping for three-wheeler hires are underemployed at the best of times.

But with the ravages of Covid, the effects of underemployment are pervasive. Traditional 9 to 5 employees are feeling as if they are having as much spare time in their hands, as three-wheeler drivers with plenty of time to kill by the curb.

To these people, the passage of the 20th Amendment may have been academic. Or it may have provoked a more visceral reaction in them, because they lay much hope in a syste...