Sri Lanka, Jan. 12 -- As the media and the wider society continue to analyse the fallout from the leaked audio clips of former State Minister Ranjan Ramanayake's telephone conversations with judges, politicians, police top brass and even his fellow actors and actresses, a disturbing picture has emerged of the very "Good Governance" that the previous Government professed to practice.
It is not for us to speculate on why Ramanayake decided to keep the recording of these possibly top-secret conversations and how they got leaked to mainstream and social media (the Police have denied any responsibility for this), which may or may not seem unethical depending on one's point of view. Moreover, in most other countries, it is illegal to record tele...