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Mahinda Rajapakse:

Completing a historic cycle

by Ajith Samaranayake

The new Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse is a very much home-grown politician and his induction into the highest echelons of the Sri Lankan power structure also signals a change of the generational guard. For, as an old boy of Thurstan College who qualified as a lawyer from the Sri Lanka Law College he is clearly outside the charmed elitist circles of the big schools which had reduced Sri Lankan politics into a virtual Royal-Thomian match.
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