(Excerpted from Selected Journalism by HAJ Hulugalle) Sir Oliver Goonetilleke seems to have had an almost mystical faith in his destiny. On his first night 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) Sir Oliver, on relinquishing office, left Ceylon on a well-deserved holiday. The Hindu of March 2,...
(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...