Posted on April 13th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
S.W.R.D Bandaranaike was Prime Minister for a very short time, 1956- 1959. Throughout
this period, he was soundly ridiculed. Praise for Bandaranaike came
several decades later when the MEP period came into historical review and it
was found that changes initiated had become entrenched, also that they were
good.
Then they started to praise Bandaranaike as a person.
Guruge (1999) said he admired SWRD’s extraordinary intellectual and oratorical
skills. Bradman Weerakoon (2004) said SWRD was ‘uncommon man
in the age of the common man’ HSS Nissanka (1976) reported that KPS Menon said Bandaranaike was