{"id":104940,"date":"2020-07-27T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T23:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104940"},"modified":"2020-07-27T16:32:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T23:32:30","slug":"sri-lankan-collective-of-intellectuals-supporting-the-minister-of-industires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/27\/sri-lankan-collective-of-intellectuals-supporting-the-minister-of-industires\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Collective of intellectuals supporting the Minister of Industires"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>There are certain opinions among the people today that intellectuals should go to parliament and run the country. The Collective recently formed and held the first inaugural meeting with the participation of the minister of industries has a different opinion. Interlevuals \u00a0should allow the politicians to go to parliament and support constitution but the intellectuals \u00a0should form committees and advise politicians to walk along the right path\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is like the minister taking action to make manufacture \u00a0local Mammoties and agricultural tools using local recyclable raw materials and start production lines But the Interctuals should play an advisory role and educate the minister that the manufactured \u00a0tools should undergo Normalizing by heating it and insert in oil or cold water to strengthen and harden the tools to last long\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another example is that according to Sinhala saying that intellectuals \u00a0cannot walk across Footbridge made of the single log but he needs a handrail\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The politician should be that handrail to cross the waterway which helps to overcome obstacles along the path of development\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Viyath Maga formed a few years back should not try to become legislators but support them to walk along the right path\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like the president said lately Brother, you do politics I will build the country <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, politicians with Pannaraya should do politics but intellectuals should help them to build the country\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not supporting intellectuals running the country but \u00a0to become \u00a0advisors to people-friendly politicians\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 There are certain opinions among the people today that intellectuals should go to parliament and run the country. The Collective recently formed and held the first inaugural meeting with the participation of the minister of industries has a different opinion. Interlevuals \u00a0should allow the politicians to go to parliament and support constitution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}