(Excerpted from Selected Journalism by HAJ Hulugalle) “He was a verray parfit gentil knight”, in the words of the fourteenth century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Dudley...
Even after half a century of his death, Dudley Senanayake is still fondly remembered by those who knew him as a ‘gentleman politician’. A simple man,...
By ACB Pethiyagoda In 1965 the late Hon. Dudley Senanayake, Prime Minister, introduced a Special Leases Scheme whereby several thousand acres of virgin jungle land in...
By Avishka Mario Senewiratne Eight years after independence, Ceylon – relatively new to democracy and independent rule, though looking good on the global canvas – was...
(Excerpted from Memoirs of a Cabinet Secretary by BP Peiris) At about this time, one Premadasa (later President R. Premadasa), a UNP member of the Colombo...
(Excerpted from Memoirs of a Cabinet Secretary by BP Peiris) On the Prime Minister’s death, The Governor-General, Sir Oliver Goonetilleke, summoned the Ministers to Queen’s House...