CTC: Economic emergency in Sri Lanka as COVID rises & Rajapaksa’s Mao Zedong act leads to ruin

Sri Lanka is going through a mostly self-inflicted economic crisis as foreign reserves dwindle, rupee collapsed & shortages cripple normal life. Shekhar Gupta explains what has led to this crisis and why the reasons go way beyond rising Covid & monetary blunders, to Rajapaksa’s Mao-style whimsicality on forced organic farming. Episode 826, CutTheClutter Brought to you by  @Kia India  ----more----Read Hiran B. Jayasundara’s article here: https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/organic-farming-in-sri-lanka-ideology-of-hitler-sri-lankan-agri-cults/----more----President calls for implementing organic fertilizer policy despite challenges during transition read here: http://www.colombopage.com/archive_21A/Jun08_1623161184CH.php