Death of liberal democracy in Jaffna, a disaster-548099
Death of liberal democracy in Jaffna, a disaster Sun Online Desk 19th April, 2021 08:59:25 No Tamil political leader in the post-Donoughmore period had single-handedly constructed an ideology and changed the course of national politics, almost overnight, as Ganapathipillai Gangaser Ponnambalam (November 8, 1901 – February 9, 1977). Not only that, no one else has left such a lasting impact – albeit a divisive and devastating one -- with his ideology on the national scene as the politics engineered by him. He was, in his own way, an exceptional figure whose role has been overshadowed by his...