By Lynn Ockersz ‘Big Brother’s’ surveillance lens, Is now at greatly magnified strength, In the Isle thrashed by crisis waves, Piercing every prospect of the land, With scorching interrogatory rays, Aiming to cow into silence, Citizens demanding real change, And the deliverance of Justice, To crime victims long forgotten by time, But all that would […]
Charismatic Actor -Politician Vijaya Kumaratunga: 75th Birth Anniversary Tribute – dbsjeyaraj.com Posted by Administrator on
D.B.S.Jeyaraj
Kovilage Vijaya Anthony Kumaratunga, known to the world as Vijaya Kumaratunga, was born in Seeduwa on 9 October 1945. Vijaya was an endearing personality with an enduring vision whom I liked, admired and respected very much. He was a man who envisaged the transformation of Sri Lanka into an inclusive, multi-ethnic, egalitarian and plural nation. A much-loved man of the masses who may have altered the destiny of this resplendent isle in a very positive manner, had he not been felled in the prime of life by foul assassins. A man whose worth is increasingly valued in the present time where communal discord is deliberately promoted for short-term political gain.