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The Long Littleness of Life: A Memoir of Government, the United Nations, Family and Friends by Leelananda De Silva (Stamford Lake Publication) 305pp Rs 1,000/- Reviewed by Jayantha Somasundaram Leelananda De Silva’s autobiography is almost a textbook narrative of the generation that inherited a post-Independent Ceylon. Many of that generation were children of the gentry […]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKI) in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia organized a ceremonial opening and hybrid seminar to raise awareness on seven decades of friendly and mutually beneficial diplomatic relations between the two Asian countries, an […]
By Leelananda de Silva One day in late November 1970, I received a telephone call from Professor H.A.de.S Gunasekara who had been appointed Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Planning and Employment (MY/P&E) in July 1970. This was the same ministry of planning and economic affairs of Dr. Gamani Corea, but it changed its name […]
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By Leelananda de Silva From 1973 to 1977, I accompanied the Prime Minister, Mrs. Bandaranaike on many trips abroad. My task was to advice her on the economic issues. My first trip with her was to Algiers for the Fourth Non Aligned Summit, and that included visits to Rome and the Vatican. The next visit […]