Sri Lanka crisis: Chilling lessons to economic saboteurs, sad as it is

A man plays the piano at the prime minister's official residence on the second day after it was it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, July 11, 2022. [Reuters]

Weeks ago, in my inner circle of friends with whom we engage on an intellectual discourse on matters of great public interest, a member asked an interesting question.

That is, can a country really go broke or completely bankrupt? The context of this question was around the economic crisis that was evolving in Sri Lanka and the paradox of our big infrastructure projects with their attendant debt costs.