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The Beginning Of An "Oriental" Experience – The Island

By Goolbai Gunasekara Excerpted from Chosen Ground: The Clara Motwani Saga (For much of the information in this chapter I am indebted to Visakha students of the years between 1933 and 1945) Curiously enough, Mother was not the first American principal of Visakha Vidyalaya. As Principal of the first Buddhist school for girls, situated in […] ....

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The 1962 coup: Political background

SWRD: Jungle, if only you were a Buddhist, then I could make you IGP By Jayantha Somasundaram On 28 January, 1962, Sri Lanka awoke to the startling news that a coup d’état by key police and military officers had been foiled. In retrospect, the coup was a crucial turning point in Sri Lanka’s contemporary history. […] ....

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Murder Most Foul: Assassination of Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike

D.B.S.Jeyaraj
Sixty-one years ago on September 25th 1959 Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (SWRDB) the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka known as Ceylon then was shot and seriously wounded by a Buddhist monk. Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike succumbed to his injuries and passed away the following day. Therefore September 26th 1959 got etched as an important date in the post-independence history annals of Sri Lanka.
The impact of that single assassination was tremendous at that time. The murder of a prime minister was sensationally shocking news. It was the first major political assassination experienced by the Island nation in the post-Independence era. In later years, political assassinations became a regular feature in Sri Lanka.. The death was an event of great historical importance too as it was the first ever assassination of a major political personality in the Island nation at that time. Thereafter September 26, 1959 got etched as an important date in the post-ind ....

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