by Rajiva Wijesinha A year ago I was fortunate to read two books about the byways of colonial history, one about two de Sarams sent to be educated in England at the beginning of the 19th century, the other a celebration of the Church Missionary Society on its hundredth anniversary in 1918. I had previously […]
Posted on February 2nd, 2021
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.
Introduction
This essay was written 20 years ago. It was
a reply to an essay which had strange ideas such as JVP was wicked because its
members did not know English. There were several such odd points covered in the
essay. But strangely, the point on JVP and English does so closely with the
decision to make law college English.
Only thing permanent in this world is
impermanence or change. Therefore, after 20 years I do not think C. A.
Chandraprema has not changed at least some of his views about this human world