By D.B.S. Jeyaraj
The term “Intermestic” was first used by Henry Kissinger to explain international issues having domestic economic implications like for instance the middle-eastern situation abroad impacting on the price of gas in the US. The term coined by Kissinger took the “inter” from International and “mestic” from Domestic.
It was however veteran Journalist Mervyn de Silva who popularised the term in Sri Lanka. Mervyn who was then editing the “Lanka Guardian” fortnightly and writing a weekly column for “Sunday Island” applied the term to all issues crossing the boundaries between the International and the domestic and belonged to both spheres thereby necessitating this sub- category.
