Sri Lanka - from Euro-Asian commercial hub to pan-world
socio-political importance
Conscious of the signal honour conferred on me by
inviting me to deliver the D A Rajapaksa commemorative address, I
wish to express my most grateful thanks to the President and the
organizing committee for according me the welcome opportunity to pay
a tribute to a national leader for whom my affection and esteem are
of the highest order. D A Rajapaksa was introduced to me by
Wijayananda Dahanayake in 1956 when I was assigned to the Ministry
of Education and Cultural Affairs. I already knew the family from my
student days in the University through George and Kamala and was
aware that in 1952, when S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike crossed to the
Opposition, D A Rajapaksa was behind him. Bandaranaike has later
told that he thought that it was his own shadow. Rajapaksa was a
founder-member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
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‘Let us first and foremost be Sri Lankans’
The future of our country is not an academic
exercise. It is about sweat and tears, treasure and poverty, dreams
achieved and destinies averted. It is about correcting ill-conceived
economic policies of the past and promoting a well committed
infrastructure network required to create a modern economy. It is
about changing the living conditions of our people in all spheres of
life. It is about understanding that forced solutions cannot be
imposed to resolve our internal issues by getting trapped to
external forces. This is life and death, success and failure of a
nation.
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Sir Winston Churchill:
Colourful colossus world figure
The 137th birth anniversary of Sir Winston
Churchill (1874-1965), the colossus world figure, British statesman,
Prime Minister, falls tomorrow (November 30). He was born on
November 30, 1874 at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. He was the War
Prime Minister from 1940-1945, then, again in 1951-1955.
Undoubtedly, he was one of the leading figures in the 20th century.
He changed the entire course of history of the world by motivating
the British. He was mainly responsible in defeating the most
ruthless Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).
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