By Garvin Karunaratne, former SLAS ƒ”š‚  It was a very sad day in 1959 when the phones buzzed with the news that our Leader Hon Philip Gunawardena had left the Cabinet. ƒ”š‚  Weƒ”š‚  officers were all lost. We all had high hopes of creating a revolution in agricultural production. All hopes were dashed. But gradually […]

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By Shelton A. Gunaratne Professor of mass communications emeritus, Minnesota State University Moorhead ƒ”š‚ Despite the impressive facade of grassroots democracy conveyed to the world at large by the system of caucuses and primaries in the United States, I see the operational dynamics of American representative democracy as a vitiation of how President Abraham Lincoln defined […]

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By Garvin Karunaratne, former SLAS,. ƒ”š‚ The year 1956 marks a watershedƒ”š‚  in Sri Lankan politics. That was the year when the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, the coalition of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party led by Hon SWRD Bandaranayake and the Viplavakari Lanka Samasamaja Party of Hon. Philip Gunawardena scored a massive victory, ushering the day of […]

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