Posted on January 16th, 2021
H. L. D. Mahindapala
After giving leadership
to his futile and disastrous insurrection to remain in the White House Donald
Trump, the lame duck President of America, has agreed at last to move out – I
wouldn’t call it a peaceful transition of power on January 20, leaving
America in shambles. There are more troops (20,000 National Guards) now in
Washington D.C. than all the troops in Afghanistan, Iran and Syria put
together to protect it from – no, not Russia or China –but from internal White
terrorist who are threating to raid the capital on the Inaugural Day. All 50 capitals
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by Prof. K.N.O. Dharmadasa Efflorescence
Going back to the “cultural desert” remark, Goonetilleke records that Jennings thought of “Thurstan Road as an oasis” He was eagerly awaiting the transfer to Peradeniya where ” the desert would blossom like the rose” ( KR, Intro. Xxiii) .As we all know it did indeed. (Let us leave aside the “cultural desert” part.) . Being empowered to “develop” in a separate Faculty, Sinhalese, Tamil, Pali and Sanskrit studies expanded their academic vistas. I think the most momentous development was in the Department of Sinhalese. In Peradeniya, it had come under a new Professor and Head of Department, D.E.Hettiarachchi (B.A.;Ph.D. Lond; M.A.; Ph.D. Calcutta) The study of modern Sinhala literature was added to the curriculum of the Department enlisting the services of Ediriweera Sarachcnadra, a scholar who had been making pioneering studies on modern Sinhala literature, getting him transferred from the Department of Pali. This proved to