{"id":157248,"date":"2026-07-11T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T23:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=157248"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T23:39:08","slug":"remembering-our-great-leaders-whose-ideas-can-help-us-today-dr-nm-perera-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/07\/11\/remembering-our-great-leaders-whose-ideas-can-help-us-today-dr-nm-perera-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering our Great Leaders\u00a0 \u00a0 whose ideas can help us today: Dr NM Perera"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Garvin Karunaratne, former G.A.Matara<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Posted on September 19th, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a school boy at St Peter\u2019s College I was always dragged by my father to mount and set up a public address system at one of the LSSP meetings. He owned Radio Works Bambalapitiya and held a contract with the LSSP to supply public address systems at election meetings for years. We employed three technicians but they were busy at other meetings. I have many a time observed NM looking hard at me again and again- a schoolboy of     fifteen who could mess up a meeting. But I was up to the mark. Ultimately he found he could rely on me and stopped staring at me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NM did not know that I was a live member of the LSSP poster pasting campaign centered at the Peradeniya University. It was done at yakku gas nagina welava- one of us kept watch for the police with sharp eyes while the rest worked fast and within hours Kandy was pasted with LSSP notices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years later I was Assistant Commissioner of Agrarian Services, implementing the Paddy lands Act in Kegalla District. We never invited politicians for our publicity meetings. I got a nod from him when I met him at katcheri meetings and I always bowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Remembering our Great Leaders\u00a0 \u00a0 whose ideas can help us today: Dr NM Perera<\/a><\/blockquote>