Gopalkrishna Gandhi's "The Undying Light" critiques India's political landscape, emphasising the need for unity against ...

Celebrating a Golden Jubilee marks a remarkable milestone in the journey of any organisation. It is with great pride, honour, ...

The left partners, the LSSP and the CP, had moved out of government at the closing stages. Many urgent tasks awaited J R Jayewardene. Foremost in his thinking was the economy which had to be freed of ...

Don Adrian, (1768-1830), the first paternal ancestor of J.R. Jayewardene about whom there is a record, had started out working for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and later aligned himself closely ...

Sri Lanka was once a pioneer of free-market capitalism in South Asia. After J.R. Jayewardene took power with a super-majority in 1977, he introduced a French-style executive presidency and ...

The election was set against the backdrop of President J.R. Jayewardene’s decision to step down after two terms. Ranasinghe Premadasa, Jayewardene’s chosen successor, faced the task of consolidating ...

Two of Sri Lanka’s oldest and famous Cricket Clubs the Nondescripts Cricket Club and Singhalese Sports Clubs will revive their traditional limited over cricket encounter for the J R Jayewardene ...

The resistance to this system of governance, from within Sri Lanka’s polity and civil society, began just as former President J.R. Jayewardene began toying with the idea in the early 1970s ...

See All Key Ideas COLOMBO — As a school student in Sri Lanka in 1986, Deepthi Yakandawala sent a greeting card to the country’s president, J.R. Jayewardene, for Vesak, the holiest day in the ...

This account of JR Jayewardene’s political life is a unique departure in Sri Lanka, for we have no tradition of analytical biography. This book tries to fill the void, by analysis of the first ...