රාජ් සෝමදේව ලංකා ඉතිහාස පොත කැඳහැලියක් කිරීම

රාජ් සෝමදේව LTTE තැරව් කාරයෙකි.

ඔහුට දමිළ සම්බවයක් ඇති නිසා ලංකාව ගැන ලියනකොට පොඩි ඉර්සියාවක් පහළ වී ඇති බව විශ්රාමගිය වෛද්‍ය වරයෙක් ලෙස මට හැගීමක් පහළ වෙයි.

එය සාධාරිකරණය කිරීම පහසුය.

පරනවිතාණ මෙන් සමහර කොටස් අස්සේ හන්ගලා උපේ බඩට ගහනවා.

පරිස්සමින් වෙන්න.

Father of FREE Education-C.W.W. Kannaggara

 

Father of FREE Education-C.W.W. Kannaggara

Father of FREE Education-C.W.W. Kannaggara

Reproduction

කුහකකම වෙනුවෙන් අපි‘ හෙවත් අමතක කළ කන්නන්ගර..!

චාමර ලක්ෂාන්ගේ සටහන

(ලංකා ඊ නිව්ස් -2016.ඔක්.22, ප.ව.4.45) 

මේ සටහන ලිවීමට පෙලඹවූයේ එංගලන්තයේ සිටින මනීෂ චාමර අමරසේකර තම ෆේස්බුක් ගිණුමට තැබු සටහනක් මා තුළ ඇතිකළ කම්පනයයි.

 

සැතපුම් දහස් ගණනක් ඈතින් සිටිය ද තවමත් රට තොට සිදුවන දෑ පිළිබඳ උනන්දුවෙන් සිටින්නකු වන මනීෂ “කොටා” තිබු සටහන සැබැවින්ම, සංවේදී එකක් ම විය. 

ඔහු ලියා තිබුණේ නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනයේ පියා ලෙස සැලකෙන සී.ඩබ්ලිව්.ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර මහතා පිළිබඳවය. 

චේ ගැන පොස්ට් දුටුවෙමි. 

සැමරුම් උත්සව පාපැදි සවාරි දුටුවෙමි. ඔහු ලංකාවට හෝ මෙහි මිනිසුන්ට කළ දෙයක් මා නම් අසා නැත. 

පසුගිය 13 වැනිදා නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනයේ පියා වන කන්නන්ගර මහතාගේ 132 වැනි ජන්ම දිනය යෙදී තිබිණි. 

 සැමරුම් නැත. 

පෝස්ට් නැත. 

නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනයේ අයිතිකරුවන් වී සිටින අන්තරයට අදාළම නැත.

 

කැම්පස්වල චේගේ රූපය ඇතිමුත් කන්නන්ගරගේ රූපය නැත. 

ඔහු නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපන පනත හඳුන්වා දෙන විට ජවිපෙ, එජාප හෝ ශ්‍රීලනිපය බිහි වී වත් නැත. 

 

බණ්ඩාරනායකලා, සේනානායකලා, රාජපක්ෂලා, ඉල්මහ විරුවන් සමරන රටේ එතුමා ගැන පුවතක්වත් පළ නොවීම කනගාටුදායකය. 

එතුමා නොසිටින්නට අද බහුතරයක් අයට චේ සමරන්න තියා චේ වචනයවත් කියවීමට හැකියාවක් නොතිබෙන්නට තිබිණි. 

ලංකාව වටේ ඇති අනිත් රටවල සාක්ෂරතාව බැලීම පමණක් මා කියන දෙය තේරුම් ගැනීමට ඉවහල් වනු ඇත.” (උපුටා ගැනුම අවසන්)

මේ රට වෙනුවෙන් කිසිදු සාධනීය මැදිහත් වීමක් සිදු කර නොමැති පුද්ගලයන් සැමරීමට දින ගණන් කාලය කා දමන රටක පිටු ගණන් කඩදාසි කොළ නාස්ති කරන පැය ගණන් තම මාධ්‍ය අවකාශය අවභාවිතාවේ යොදවන රටක සී.ඩබ්ලිව්.ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර වැනි මාහැඟි සේවාවක් මේ රට වෙනුවෙන් කළ පුද්ගලයකු අමතක වීම යනු එක් අතකින් විමතිය දනවන කාරණයක් ම නොවේ.

 

තාක්ෂණයෙන් ඩිජිටල් වූවත් සංස්කෘතියෙත් තවමත් ගල් යුගයේ ජීවත් වන ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන්ගේ සැබෑ ස්වභාවය මෙයයි. 

එසේ කියා ආචාර්ය සී.ඩබ්ලිව්.ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර වැන්නකු පහසුවෙන් අපට අමතක කළ හැකි ද යන්න පැහැදිලි ප්‍රශ්නාර්ථයකි. 

ඒ ඔහු මේ රට වෙනුවෙන් කර ඇති අද්විතීය මෙහෙවර දෙස අවධානය යොමු කරන ‍කලය.
වචනයේ පරිසමාප්ත අර්ථයෙන්ම දැවැන්ත විප්ලවයක් කන්නන්ගර මහතාගේ මැදිහත් වීම තුළ මෙරට සමාජ දේහය තුළ සිදු විණි. 

නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපන පනත හඳුන්වා දෙමින් අධ්‍යාපනයට ප්‍රවේශ වීමට ඇති අයිතිය ඈත ගම්බද දරුවන්ට ලබා දීම තුළ සිදු වූ විප්ලවය පිළිබඳව අටුවා ටීකා ටිප්පණි පැවසීම අවශ්‍ය නැත. 

කැලේ පිපුණු මල් කැලේම පර වී නොයන්නට එය ඉඩ සැලසුවේය. 

තවත් සරලව කිවහොත් නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනය නොතිබිණි නම් ඈත ගම්වල අති බහුතරයක් දෙනා අධිපති ගෙවල්වල මෙහෙකරුවන් වන්නට ඉඩ තිබිණි. 

මේ සියලු අර්ථයන් ගෙන බලද්දී ආචාර්ය සී.ඩබ්ලිව්.ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර යනු දැවැන්ත යුග පුරුෂයෙක්මය.

1945 ජූලියේදී නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපන පනත සම්මත වීමෙන් පසු කන්නන්ගර මහතා සභා ගැබෙන් පිටතට පැමිණෙද්දී ඔහු අසලට අමුත්තෙක් කිට්ටු විය. 

ඒ එවකට කොළඹ ඉන්දියානු මහකොමසාරිස්වරයා ලෙස කටයුතු කළ එච්.එම්. ආනේ මහතාය.

“අයියා අපේ රටේ ඉපදිලා මේ වගේ පනතක් ඉදිරිපත් කළා නම් දෙවියන්ට වගේ සලකනවා.” ඔහු කන්නන්ගර මහතාට අත දෙමින් එසේ පැවසුවේය.

 

ඉන්දියානුවන් එසේ කරන බව පැවසුව ද අපේ අය නම් කන්නන්ගර මහතාට 1947 මහ මැතිවරණයේදී ඉහළම සැලකිල්ල දැක්වූයේ ඔහුව පරාජයට පත් කරමිනි.

නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනයේ පියා ගෙදර යවමින් ධන කුවේරයකු වූ විල්මට් ඒ. පෙරේරාව රටේ ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකයට පත් කිරීමට තරම් පස්යොදුන් කෝරලයේ ජනතාව එදා අකෘතඥ වී තිබිණි.

දේශපාලනඥයකු ලෙස කන්නන්ගර මහතාගේ අගය වැඩි කරනුයේ ඔහු එය තම පැවැත්ම වෙනුවෙන් කිසිදා භාවිත නොකළ කෙනකු බැවිනි. වසර විස්සකට වැඩි කාලයක් රටේ ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය නියෝජනය කළ ද පෞද්ගලිකව ලාභ උපරීම කරගැනීමේ අදහසක් ඔහුට කිසි දිනක නොතිබිණි. 

ඒ නිසාම ජිවිතයේ සැඳෑ කාලය සතුටින් ගෙවීමට තරම් හැකියාවක් ඔහුට නොවීය. 

1961 ඔක්තෝබර් මස 26 වැනි දින නියෝජිත මන්ත්‍රී මණ්ඩලයේ කථානායක ආර්.එස්. පැල්පොල මහතා වෙත කන්නන්ගර මහතා යැවූ ලිපිය අපට පෙන්වා දෙනුයේ අවංක දේශපාලනඥයකුගේ ශෝකාලාපය මිස වෙනෙකක් නොවේ. ජීවත්වීම සඳහා තමනට පිං පඩියක් ඉල්ලමින් කන්නන්ගර මහතා යැවූ ඒ මුල් ලිපියේ කොටස් දෙකක් මෙසේ උපුටා දක්වමි.

සී. ඩබ්ලිව්. ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර
නො. 36,
තිඹිරිගස්යාය පාර,
හැව්ලොක් ටවුම,
කොළඹ 06.
1961 ඔක්තෝබර් මස 26 දිනදීය.
ශ්‍රී ලංකා නියෝජිත මන්ත්‍රී මණ්ඩලයේ කථානායක ගරු ආර්.එස්. පැල්පොල මැතිතුමා වෙතයි.
රජයේ ඉහළම රාජ්‍ය සභාවල සියවස් කාලකටත් වැඩි කාලයක් සේවය කිරීමෙන් පසුව මා දැනට පත්වී තිබෙන අසරණ තත්ත්වයන් නිසා හදිසි මූල්‍යමය ආධාරයක් අපේක්ෂාවෙන් මෙම ඉල්ලීම ඔබතුමා වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කරන බව ගෞරවාන්විතව දන්වා සිටිමි.
මගේ මේ ඉල්ලීම ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට හේතු සාධක වශයෙන් පහත සඳහන් වැදගත් කරුණු කිහිපය ඔබතුමා ඉදිරියේ තැබීමට අදහස් කරමි.

ආයෝජනවලින්, නිවාසවලින්, ඉඩකඩම්වලින් හෝ වෙනත් ප්‍රභවයන්ගෙන් මට කිසිදු පෞද්ගලික ආදායමක් නොලැබෙන බැවින් මා වසර ගණනාවකම යැපුණේ මගේ මිත්‍රයින්ගෙන් හා හිතවතුන්ගෙන් ලැබුණු පරිත්‍යාගවලිනි. 

මගේ සෞඛ්‍ය රැකගැනීම සඳහා කළ යුතු අත්‍යවශ්‍ය වියදම් වෙනුවෙන් ගෙවිය යුතු බිල්පත් දිනපතා ගොඩගැසෙමින් පවතී. මිත්‍රයන්ගෙන් හා නැදෑයන්ගෙන් සහනාධාර යැදීම සියවසකින් තුනෙන් එකක් තරම් වූ කාලයක් තිස්සේ රජයේ ඇමැති තනතුරක් දැරූ මා වැන්නකුට කිසිසේත් තරම් නොවන බවට ඔබතුමා ද එකඟ වනු ඇත යනු මාගේ විශ්වාසයයි.

රජයෙන් ක්ෂණික සහනයක් අපේක්ෂාවෙන් මගේ මේ ආයාචනය ඔබතුමා වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නේ අද මා මුහුණ පා සිටින අවාසනාවන්ත තත්ත්වය නිසාම බැව් සැලකුව මැනවි.

 

එසේම සියවස් කාලකට වැඩි කාලයක් තිස්සේ මගෙන් කිසියම් ගෞරවයකට හා පිළිගැනීමකට ලක් වූ සේවයක් ඉටු වී ඇති බව ද මා අදහස් කරන නිසාත්ය.
ඒ වගත් මෙසේම
ඔබතුමාගේ යටහත් කීකරු සේවක
සී.ඩබ්ලිව්.ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර
(මුල් ලිපියේ කොටස් දෙකක් පමණි) 
ජාතියට දේශයට නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනයේ ආශීර්වාදය ලබා දුන් ආචාර්ය සී.ඩබ්ලිව්.ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර ඇමැතිතුමාට අවසානයේදී අත් වූයේ එවන් දුක්ඛදායක ඉරණමකි.
මේ ඉල්ලීමට ප්‍රතිචාර දක්වමින් එතුමාට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් රුපියල් දසදහසක පාරිතෝෂික මුදලක් ගෙවූ අතර, පසුව මසකට රුපියල් 500 බැගින් පින් පඩියක් පිරිනැමිණ.
පසුව බලයට පැමිණි රජය යටතේ එම මුදල රුපියල් 1000 දක්වා වැඩි කරන ලදී. මේ ආකාරයට දුක්ඛිත දිවියක් ගෙවූ කන්නන්ගර මහතා 1969 සැප්තැම්බර් 23 වැනිදා මිය පරලොව ගියේ තවත් අමතක කර දමනු ලැබූ පුද්ගලයකු වශයෙනි.
සී.ඩබ්ලිව්.ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර වැනි පරමාදර්ශි දේශපාලනඥයන්ගෙන් ආදර්ශ ලබා ගන්නවා වෙනුවට අපේ බහුතරයක් දේශපාලනඥයන් පෙලඹී ඇත්තේ ඊට පිටුපෑමටය. 

ඒ වග පෙන්වීමට උදාහරණ අනන්තවත් සැපයිය හැකිය. එජාප හා ශ්‍රීලනිපය නියෝජනය කරන ඇමැතිවරුන් දෙදෙනකු හබරාදුව ප්‍රදේශයේ එකම පාරක් දෙකොනින් විවෘත කර රට හිනස්සවා තවම ගතව ඇත්තේ දින කිහිපයකි. 

සිනාසීම වෙනුවට මෙම කාරණය දේශපාලනඥයන්ගේ කාර්යභාරය කුමක් විය යුතු ද යන්න සිතා බැලීමේ අවස්ථාවක් අපට ලබා දෙයි. 

1948 සිට ක්‍රියාත්මක ජනප්‍රිය දේශපාලන සංස්කෘතියෙන් පිට පැනීමට තවමත් අපේ දේශපාලනඥයන්ට නොහැකි වී ඇති බව පීත්ත පටි කපමින් කරන මේ මාදිලියේ විවෘත කිරීම්වලට තවමත් ඔවුන් සම්බන්ධ වීමෙන් පෙනී යයි. 

ජනතා කැමැත්ත දිනු දේශපාලනඥයකුගේ කාර්යභාරය විය යුත්තේ පීත්ත පටි කැපීම, ඡන්දදායකයන්ගේ මඟුලට, අවමඟුලට සහභාගි වීම නොව රට හා එහි වැසියන් වෙනුවෙන් ප්‍රතිපත්ති සම්පාදනයයි. 

මෙසේ පීත්ත පටි කැපීමට යෑමෙන් සිදු වනුයේ ප්‍රතිපත්ති සම්පාදනයට ඇති කාලය අපතේ යෑමකි. ප්‍රාදේශීය හා පළාත් සභා මට්ටම නියෝජනය කරමින් ඒ ඒ තලවල දේශපාලනඥයන් කොතරම් සිටිය ද පාරක් විවෘත කිරීමට වීදි ලාම්පු විවෘත කිරීම වැනි සරල කාරණාවලට පවා සම්බන්ධ වීමට කැමැත්ත දක්වන ජාතික තලයේ දේශපාලනඥයන් අතිබහුතරයක් මේ රටේ සිටිති. පීත්ත පටි කැපීමට දක්වන උනන්දුව ප්‍රතිපත්ති සම්පාදනයට හා සමාන්තර වෙනත් රටවල සාර්ථකත්වයේ අත්දැකීම් ගැන කියැවීමට ඔවුන් වැය කළේ නම් සැබැවින්ම මේ රට සුරපුරයක් බවට පත් වී බොහෝ කල්ය.
හුදු ප්‍රදර්ශන කාමයට අමතරව වරප්‍රසාද පසුපස හඹා යෑමට වත්මන් දේශපාලනඥයන් තුළ ඇති කැමැත්ත රටේ දේශපාලනය තවත් දුර්වර්ණ ගන්වයි. දේශපාලන බලය හා වරප්‍රසාද අතර ඉතා කිට්ටු සම්බන්ධතාවක් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව වැනි දේශපාලන වශයෙන් අව-සංවර්ධිත රටක පැහැදිලිවම දැකගත හැකිය. සාමාන්‍යයෙන් දියුණු යැයි සම්මත රටවල බලයට පත්වීම යන යෙදුම හෝ දේශපාලන ශබ්ද කෝෂය තුළ දක්නට නොමැති අතර ඒ වෙනුවට ඇත්තේ ‘කමින් ටු ඔෆිස්’ නොඑසේ නම්: කාර්යාලයට පැමිණ රාජකාරි කටයුතු ඇරැඹීම යන්නය.
බොහෝ රටවල් ‘කමින් ටු ඔෆිස්’ කියද්දී අපි තවමත් ‘කමින් ටු පවර්’ යනුවෙන් කියමින් සිටින්නෙමු. එය, අපට ගැටලුවක් වුවද දේශපාලනඥයන්ට නම් වරප්‍රසාදවලින් තොරව පැවැත්මක් නොමැති බව දිගින් දිගටම පෙනෙන්නට තිබීම අතිශයින්ම කනගාටුදායකය.

-චාමර ලක්ෂාන් කුමාර විසිනි-

සත්‍යට මුහුණ නොදෙන්නා අසත්‍යයෙන් මියයයි

මේ ධර්මපදයක් නොව මගේ ලංකාව ගැන දේශපාලන කියවීමක්.

බොරු අම්බානක කියලා බලය ලබා ගෙන, එළබෙන ප්‍රශ්න වලට මුහුණ දෙන්න බැරිකළ ජනතාව ගොනාට ඇන්ද වීම තමයි මේකට කියන්නේ.

සිංහල යතුරුපුවරුව

මේ සිංහල Desh යතුරු පුවරුවය. 

තනි ඇඟිල්ලෙන් ලියන්න පුලුවන්ය.

අකුරක් වැරදුනොත් තොරා ගැනීමට පුවරුවේ ඉහල තට්ටුවේ අකුරු පෙලක් ඇත.

අනගිය.

නොබෙල් ත්‍යාගයට මම එම මේවලම තෝරා ගත්තෙමි.

ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණට ඇසල පෙරහැර සන්නිය වැලදීලාද?

මට පෙනෙන විදියට ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණට ඇසල සන්නිය වැලදීලා ඇත.

මෙය පිස්සු බලු රෝගය තරමට අසාද්‍යවෙලා ඇති නමුත් සුව කරන බෙහෙතක් නැත.

ඇසල පෙරහැරේ සංස්කෘතික අංශයේ කොටසක් වන අලි ඇතුන් සක්මන් කිරීම නවත්වන්න පොලු ඇරන් සටනට බැස ඇත.

අනේ අනිච්චන්.

නුවර පෙරහැර මා නොදත් කරුණු

ආරම්බය 

1. කප් සිටුවීම 

කිරි ගසකිං අලුත් ලීයක්  නොහොත් දැවැයක්යක් සකස් කිරීම

පොත්ත ගලවලා පිරිසිදු සුදු රෙදි කඩකින් වසා අලුත්නුවර දැඩිමුන්ඩ රජමහා දේවස්ථානයේ සිට මහනුවර ගෙන ඒම.

මෙම ලීය කොටස් 4කට කපා සතර දේවාල වල සිටවීම 

උඩු වියන් සහිත සතර පැති වලින් වටවු කොටුවක් සකස් කිරීම.

මෙය කපුවාගේ යුතුකම වේ.

මේවා සියල්ලම ද්‍රවිඩ රජවරුන්ට යටත්ව සිටින කාලයේදී ලංකාවට ඉන්දියාවෙන් ආදේශ කල පුහු වතාවත්ය.

කුලය, පුද්ගලවාදය සහ පිරිමින්ගේ ප්‍රමුඛත්වය තහවුරු කරගන්න සාදාගත් මානසික මෙහෙයවීම්ය.

මේවා බෞද්ධ මුල ධර්මයන්ට පටහැනිය.

මම සංකෘතික වටිනාකම බැහැර නොකරමි. 

පොඩි ගසක් හෝ කපනවාට මම විරුද්ද වන්නෙමි.

ගැහැණුන් මෙම උත්සව වලින්  සම්පුර්ණයෙන්ම බැහැර කර ඇත 

කොස් හෝ අඹ ගසකින් ලබා ගැනෙයි.

2. ගැටඹේ දිය කපන උත්සවය 

පාරම්පරික වශයෙන් මෙය වැදගත්ය.

ජලය ජිවයේ මුල් පුරුකය.

කෘෂිකාර්මික රටක් පවතින්නේ කලට වැසි වසීමත් ඇස්වනු නෙලන විට වියළි 

දේශගුණයක් පැවැත්මයි.

පාලකයන් දුර්ධාන්ත වෙනවිට දේශගුණ විපර්යාස වෙනබවට ජනමනසේ පැලපදියන් වී ඇත්තේ ඒ නිසාය.

පෙරහැර අවසන් වූ බව දන්වන්නේ කලගෙඩියකට මහවැලි ගංගාවේ ජලය පෙරහැරින් වඩමවා මාලිගාවේ සහ සතර දේවාලවල තැන්පත් කිරීමෙන් පසුවය.

කළගෙඩිය අපේ උරුමයකි.

කලගෙඩියක වතුර සිසිල්ය.

මුදල් වැයවන ශිතකරන අවශ්‍ය නැත.

දුර්ධාාන්ත ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණට මේවා අරහන් වුනාට ඔඋන් සිටින විටත් නැති විටත් අපේ සංඝසමාජය මේ උරුමයන් ආරක්ෂා කරනු ඇත.

සුද්දන් කාලේ කරපුවා කාඩිනල්ට ඕනෑකමට නටබුන් කරන්න දෙන්න එපා.

රිලොර්ඩ් කාර්දිනල් කම්මුතුයි

රිලොර්ඩ් කාදිනල් කප්ගහන එක නියතයි.

පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයේ මහ මොලකරුට ලෝගුවේ යට රිංගන්න බැහැ.

ලෝගුව ගලවලා බලන්නත් බැහැ.

හතර බිහිරි කතාව කියන්නේ මේ වගේ ඔලමොට්ටල වැඩ වලටයි. 

පාලු ගෙයි වලං බින්දා ඇති, එක්සත් වෙමු

පාලු ගෙයි වළං බිදලා ආපු නරුමයන් පළවා හැර බෞද්ධ සිංහල උරුමය රැකගන්න කාලය එළබ ඇත. 

එක්සත් වෙමු.

මෙය ගොරකයන් සහ බුද්ධිමත් දේශපාලන විචාරකයන් අතර ඇති ගැටුමක්.

කොලේ වහලා ගහන කාර්ඩ් ගේමක්

විනිශ්චය කරුවන්ගේ විශ්රාම වයස දික්කිරීම කොලේ වහලා ගහන බුරුවා ගැසීමක්.

චන්දදයකයා බුරුවාට ඇන්දීම නරක වැඩක්.

නංගි පෙන්නල අක්කා බැඳලා දෙන්න හදන්නේ.

රට බෙදන්න දෙන්න එපා.

නිදහස්, නිවහල්, සුවෛර්ය රාජ්ජයක් ගොඩ නැගීමට අවශෂ්‍ය කරුණු

තඩියමට කොරස් කටටත් අත දාන්න බෑ කියලා කතාවක් තියෙන්නේ කාඩ්නල් වගේ අයට 

මේ කරුණු උසාවිවල විනිශ්චයකරුවන්ටද අදාලය.

පුජකපක්ෂයට,  විශේෂයෙන් පල්ලියේ කාදිනල්ට තිබිය යුතුයි 

1. සුවෛර්යභාවය 

2. එක්සත්බව 

3. සාධාරණබව 

4. උද්යෝගමත්බව 

5. අවංකබව‍ 

6. නුවනැතිබව 

7. නිෂ්පාදනශීලිබව 

8. නිරෝගීබව 

9. නිහතමානීබව 

10. අලංකාරත්වය 

නැතුව වෛරයෙන් රට ගොඩ නගන්න බැහැ.

නාගානන්ද කොඩිතුවක්කු තක්කඩියෙක්

What is appropriate for this guy in Dhammapada Verses is Papa agga or EVIL.

ධම්මපාදයේ මේ පුද්ගලයාට සුදුසු දහම් කන්ඩ ඇත්තේ පාප වග්ගයෙහිය.

මිතුරෙකු සෙ පැමිණ අනෙක් පුද්ගලයා වලකට දැමීමක් කෙරෙන්නේ.

සිගලොවාද සුත්‍රයේ වදන් ඔහුට යෝග්‍යය.

නාගානන්ද කොඩිතුවකු:

තක්කඩියෙක් 

 

බොරු කාරයෙක් 

 

ඩීල් කාරයෙක් 

 

මුදල් විශුද්දීකරන පුද්ගලයෙක් 

 

උසාවියේ කෝට්එක ගලවාවලා දාපූ කෙනෙක් 

ජනාධිපතිවරනයකට ඉදිරිපත් වීමට සුසුදුකම් නොමැති කෙනෙක් 

ආදායම් බදු (Income Tax) වංචනිකයෙක් 

ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ ඔත්තු කාරයෙක් 

ඔහු ගැන මම නොදන්නා කාරණා රාශියකි

ඉදිරියට ඒවා එලියට ඒනු ඇතැයි මම බලාපොරුත්තු වෙමි.

ඔහුට මුදල් වලින් දායක නොවන්න වගබලාගන්න.

 

පරිස්සමින් වෙන්න.

සිගාලොවාද සුත්‍රයට අනුව, ගෙදෙරකට වැද්දගැනීමට නුසුදුසු පුද්ගලයෙක්.

මට හිතෙන විදිහට, කටපාඩම් කළ "දහම් පද" වැරදියට යොදන කෙනෙක්.

ඔහු ධම්මපදය හරියට කියවලා නැති කෙනෙක් 

මෙවන්නන්ට සුදුසු දහම් කාණ්ඩය පසුව සදහන් කරනම්. 

 

ශාවකයා නොමග යැවීම දරුණු අපරාදයකි.

Professor Senaka Bibile Reborn

This piece is on development.

Professor Senaka Bibile Reborn

This is my next book, since I am finishing my 5 books, soon.

I only listened to 5 lectures by him.

But my real mentor was Professor George E. Tennakoon.

Then he moved to SPC and I lost track of him and Pharmacology, altogether.

If I remember right, he did a random study on Vit C and හෙම්බිරිස්සාව.

I was on the control side.

I went on with my Army Drill at University Hockey Grounds during this study period daily finishing with climbing the rope at Gymnasium.

He said there is no difference whether I take Vit C or not but continue advocate Vit C since I did not understand logic of statistics until I did my own research at the age of 55.

This SAGA with my alma mator ended up finishing the Swimming Pool where I never had a dip.

On a different issue I preferred handkerchief ro tissues since one need not cut trees to produce tissue.

The advantage is I clean the handkerchief everday and 7 handkerchiefs is enough fir a weak which I continue to this day.

Of course, surgical type of hand washings is ingrained in me.

Thess habits I think I acquired from him including the simple bush shirt.

Then again Dr. Palitha Abeykoon and Malcolm Fernando got us involved in Kaduganmwa survey which I enjoyed visitlng remort villages in Kandy.

Teldeniya where our Buddha was born is such a place.

L. S. S. P was born in 1935

1. Dr. N. M. Perera

Leader

2. Lesley Gunawardene

Secretary

3. Dr. Colvin R De Silva

Lawyer 

4. Philip Gunawardene 

5. Robert Gunawardene 

Dr. Tissa Vitharana Virologist

M. R. I. which functioned badly under him.

I worked there for only 6 weeks under compulsion by Miss Doris Peiris my boss in Colombo General. I reported all the wrong doings at MRI and also at CGH while sorting out all the blood films for her to review.

One day, I told her I got a good case for you.

What?

Red Cell Leukemia 

Do not con.

For 40 years I have seen none.

She confirmed it.

Soon after I left to UK.

I did a locum for Ceylonese Haematologist but he did not short list me for the post. 

I blasted him on our Ceylonese Doctors Party Not on broad day light but under dim lights. Nobody knew me except one Dr. C. S. Nanayakkara.

I was the only Peradeniya Graduate on that occasion in that Party. I could slip out after one pint of beer. That is my maximum while in UK.

They used to bully me like a kid.

I gradually moved myself to Wine and I did not know which Wine White or Red or Sparkling goes with the meal, fish, chicken and beef.

Then I moved into making Wine from තැඹිලි in පැනිදෙණිය without Yeast.

I did not tell them I was a Very Special Old Arrack (V. S. O. A.) Guy.

That is my connection to Dr. N. M. Perera.

I called him පේ රේ රා the best Arrack on town.

Then Keerthi Premaratne the brother of  Dr. Asoka Premaratne brings me a quarter bottle of VSOA on monthly basis until I stopped drinking arrack and transferred to Wine.

Professor Senaka Bibile was a member of LSSP

C. P. in 1943

Leader Dr. S. A. Weerasinghe

සුනිල් ආරියරත්න නැන්දා මාලනීය නොමරා මැරුවා

සුනිල් ආරියරත්න නාගානන්ද කොඩිතුවක්කු ගානයේ කපටි දේශපාලන උප්පරවැට්ටි කාරයෙකි.

අහෝ අහිංසක නන්දා මාලිනිය දේශපාලන කඩතුරාවකින් වැසි ගොසිනි.

ඒ සුන්දර කට හඬ අප අතර------=== ඇත සහ නැත.

මට ඒ ගීත වල දේශපාලන අරුත තේරුම් ගියද පදවල අරුත දැනටත් තේරුම් ගත නොහැකිය.

නන්දා මාලිනියටත් ඒම පදවල අරුත මිය යන්නට ටික කලකට පෙර තේරුම් ගියා යයි මම අනුමාන කරන්නෙමි.

ඇයගේ නිහඩ සමු ගැනීමට හේතුව එය විය හැකිය.

මම වැරදි නම් සමාවන්න.

නමුත්, සුනිල් ආරියරත්න රාජ කපටියෙක්.

VITAMIN C and Brain Size of Adults

VITAMIN C and Brain Size of Adults  

This is to highlight an article published in NEJM on the 10th of July, 2026 by mainly Japanese authors.

There is a definite relationship with brain size and probably low incidence of dementia on non alcoholic individuals.

I do not believe that neural connections are permanent entities and no change can happen after birth. 

It is shown in serious meditators the neural connections blossom at Jhana level 1 to 5. 

Low dose of Vitamin C regularly enhance neural connections and thereby memory and attention span.

Poor sleeping or break in sleep has adverse effect on Memory and Attention.

It is prudent to suck a Vit C tablet at Day Break to mitigate this untoward manifestation.

I am not sure of the effect of Vit C on melatonin release.

On a different line of investigation, my friend Dr. Chandrasekara who is blind now discovered many moons ago that periodontists or gum disease has direct relationship with cardiovascular episodes. His research is confirmed by many other works on both these fields.

My connection is the relevance of atherosclerosis and heart disease.

1. Atherosclerosis does not cause heart disease. It is harmless deposition of extra fatty material on blood vessels. Abdominal Aorta is the major site. I won't talk about this Fatty Acid SAGA and Cholesterol except it is one component of large number of Fatty Acids.

2. Inflammation at the site of Fatty Deposits precipitates "fatty acids shower" that causes TIA and Stroke long before the first heart attack in many individuals. These episodes are painless unlike angina and many patients ignore these symptoms as mundane.

Treatment is simple.

Low dose Aspirin Therapy.

3. Inflammation is caused by Microscopic Injury that set in motion of release of Interleukin.

4. Periodontists cause the release of Interleukin and that was my friends contribution and the relationship of heart attacks.

5. All my life I was teaching Inflammation and I can remember my old Professor George Tennakoon finishing the introductory lecture series for our students saying: 

There are inflammatory mediators in inflammation and learn them from this Dr.......

Then back at the department he gives me all the references from American Journal Pathology.

Of course, I graduated to NEJM which is again an American publication.

I hated British BMJ and it's British English.

Other benefits of VIT C include: 

Potentiates Memory and Attention

Prevention of Macular Degeneration in eyes.

Possible lower incidence of heart attacks due to antioxidant activity.

No relationship with flue or the duration of the flu.

Dose of VITAMIN C

50mg assuming with the contribution from food (banana, lime, lemon mandarin and oranges), one gets the required 75mg a day.

Body does not produce Vit C.

My bone or contention is one cannot be sure how much one gets from a fruits and vegetables. 

There is no label on the fruit and the size of the fruit that has 75mg.

The quantity of Vit C in a tablet is well known. So taking the tablet makes our life simple. No complications.

It is the ripe banana that has Vit C and all the Hexose and Penose sugars.

There is a caveat here.

Tablets available are 500mg.

Simply, just divide the tablet to 4 pieces and one gets 125mg. Assuming that the tablet is not made to High Quality, one can ignore the excess 50mg.

If one take the 1000mg (2 tablets) the excess is passed in the urine causing light burning sensation. Only the very high doses cause oxalic acid stones in the urine.

1. NEJM is my number 1 journal for over 50+ years.

I am not a fan of BMJ especially because of its language style. Whereas, NEJM has a crisp and direct language style and there are no Shakespearean twist in expression.

2. I was very much involved in childhood nutrition and milk formulae from SMA, Cow and Gate, Anchor and Vitamilk. 

I am not a fan of Indian Amul milk.

Equally fan of milk toffee made of Nestlé Milkmaid condensed milk.

I am not familiar with Danish Arla and Australian milk Devondale and Woolworth 

3. My interest was VITAMIN fortified milk not the standard milk.

In that sense SMA and Cow and Gate were my favorites.

4. Even though Expressed Breast Milk was an option for babies maintaining a Milk Bank except for Neonates was not feasible.

5. One has to look at the label on the milk cartoon or tin to see the composition. Little bit of iron and trace elements like zinc, copper and selenium are invariable in some formulae.

Cardinal's Link to X - Press Pearl's Company

Hypothesis is that Cardinal was bribed by the X - Press Pearl Company to influence "Decision Making" by President and the Chief Justice. 

President is dumb intellectually but he can twist any "Mundane Stuff" to his political advantage.

This Cardinal guy has a big weakness.

He pokes his finger inappropriately.

His hand is visible from the time of "අරගලය".

He wants to claim the full credit and a Title in the Vatican.

God Bless Vatican.

Crafty Crook.

His aim is not fairness but "Political Victimization".

He does not let the "Natural Justice" to take its precidence.

He is in the same line as "Kakki Sudha".

"කක්කි සුධා" approach.

He is a big liability.

The Church is above the law of the country is His Principle.

"හැම තැනටම හොට දාන කොට්ටෝරුවා වගේයි". 

"කාඩිනල් (මෙයා) දැන් කෙහෙල් ගසටත් කොටනවා".

I had long discussion with "AI" since I am not a lawyer.

The extension of the retirement age to the present Chief Justice is relevant here. 

He cannot sit in judgement of this case.

A Referendum is Mandatory is my opinion.

The people should have the right to decide even though I think the average citizen is STUPID and has no understanding of the legal implications.

At a Referendum both side of the divide can expalain to the electorate pros and cons.

It is not a "Political Stance or Stunt" but a basic legal requirement.

Anura only got 46%.

LTTE rump is financing him to divide the country on Ethnic and Religious grounds.

It is pretty obvious.

The legal predicament effects all irrespective of the ethnicity or religious background.

Fairness takes the back door instead of the front door.

It is a back door political dealing where a certain political agenda is controling the outcome.

Cardinal also want to divide the country.

 

"කලගෙඩි සෙල්ලම" දෙවැනි පරිච්ඡේදය ලංකා ඉතිහාසයේ හැරවුම් ලක්ෂණයක්‌ වෙනු ඇත.

මෙහි බ්ලොග් සටහන කියවන්න.

"කතෝලික පල්ලියේ කෘමත්‍රණය" නමින් ලිපියක් ලීවේ ඒ නිසාය.

Naganda Kodituwakku of Transparency International has made a formal complaint. 

I do not think that he is fair. 

He is a crook.

He has to settle a political or a legal grudge.

The fact that he is aligning with NPP/JVP makes him a political agent.

He has a grude with a particular judge or judges for derobing his lawyer's mantle.

He is biased.

He is not a lawyer.

I call him the "නාගයා" due to the "Circuitous Process" he has taken.

He has gone to the Bribery Commisdion.

The Chief of Bribery Commission is a NVP/JVP activist.

We cannot expect Transparency from both these parties, namely NPP/JVP and නාගයා.

The judgement is secretly made in a  "Political Circle" with vested interests.

It is ominous.

There is no other way I can describe it.

The Chief Guy who covered up Stealing in the University

A Weak Leader Brings Disaster to Ceylon 

Anura Dissanayske is that weak Leader.

Ranil Wichramasinghe is a wesk leader and a stooge of India. 

He has allowed Anura Dissanayske to sign all the agreements which India needs to subjugate CEYLON and put the onus on Anura and later undermine him and come to power using a subtle "Economic Coup".

Ranil Wickrasinghe is no economic wizard. 

What he did was to postpone the payments of instalments and we have to pay the an added interest on each installment, later.

He fooled the masse with Pseudo RECOVERY. 

Sutra Puncha at his Worst.

We must never let him come to power.

I have a Personal Grouse with him.

His aim is to destroy FREE University Education and introduce FEE paying system.

 

Destroy Kannaggara Wisdom is his moto.

He unceremoniously sacked my BOSS, University Grant Commission Chairmman, Professor B. Ranjth N. Mendis.

I acted as the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Dental Science for 3 months  and fulfilled all His Intended Targets. 

I begged him to release me from Work on Administration, since I was interested in Research Work which I finished in double quick time and the rest of the time I spent on my Linux Development Plan and having a Network dedicated to the Faculty of Dental Sciences independent of the University Server.

Yes, he released me for academic work but gave me another project with Japanese International Corporation Agency (JICA).

I really enjoyed working with Dr. Handa and Hagiwara and Professor Kimiko was my Room Buddy. 

He was involved in training our Technical Staff on Special (enzyme technology) Staining Technology.

Unfortunately, minus 20 decree Fridge Freezer I ordered for my Research Work was hijacked by our Senior Technician Mr. Bandara who died of Mercury Poisoning. 

He was a very nice guy and this piece is dedicated to him.

Of course, I was interested in Safety within the Laboratory from my Private Sector Training in Quality Control and Safety.

This was to highlight the lady who died at about the same time in Colombo (forget her name) who was doing gene splitting in CEYLON. I think this case was hushed up and covered up by the Private Sector guys, fearing litigation by the family and the possibility of undermining their recruitment schemes which violated the "Fundamental Rights and the Safety of the Individuals" in laboratory work.

I left private Sector never to join again but always highlighted this case in my introductory lectures to students and visiting trainees.

I was trained by "WHO Program in Gene Splitting" and part of that training included Safety. I went to Science Faculty for training and one of my classmates in Biochemistry died related to chemical poisoning after retirement. 

Another of my classmates who entered university much later in Biochemistry did his Masters in  

Laboratory Chemical Poisoning in America. 

 

He asked me to suggest a  Research Project.

All my other academic friends who entered the University from my class except the last mentioned are dead.

I have noted these incidents without their names in a single chapter in one of my many books at Amazon's. You have to read those books at Amazon to become wiser.

My first project proposal to a Third Year Medical student was very simple.

Study the relationship of Grey Hair to Thyroid Hormones, T4 and T3.

He ended up in Biochemistry which I hated in later years. 

He did go to UK and USA and never returned to Mother Lanka to pay back his loans and the bond which was Rs. 30,000/=. 

We immediately raised the bond to 3 times and more,  (Rs.100,000/=). 

 

The girls who joined Pathology (they were Tamils) did not pay back their legal bonds. 

I personally conveyed a message from my Professor R. G. Tennakoon, to one of my batch mates,  that she cannot join any University in CEYLON, if she decides to come home one day.

Coming back to the Biochemistry Guy, he organized a Guest Lecture in our Faculty. 

I attended it in good time and it so happened that I was the only guy to listen to him on that day. 

He was devastated and I told him nobody likes him and Do Not ever come back here, to Show Off.

He was a Hela Urumaya Type guy in his days in CEYLON and he was from Ananda College. 

He also did not return any of the books he borrowed from me. 

He was a very stingy guy and he never offered me a cup of tea which I really love.

One of batch his mates from Galle had already warned me that he would never offer YOU a cup of tea and BEWARE.

In fact, he broke my childhood camera and he did not tell me how. 

Of course, by that time I had a better camera which I never gave on loan to  anybody.

Incidentally, one of my relatives ransacked all my  spare cameras and vandalized my very expensive Medical Projector for its expensive lens. 

He became paralyzed just before I left CEYLON and I did not pay him a visit but send him the medical gear that he needed through my wife. 

This is a guy I wish not see in any of my next lives and that include that Biochemistry Guy.

I wish I meet our dog Zimba in one of my next lives. 

I am convinced that he is currently in heaven but I have no intention of visiting heaven to cancel my good merits achieved in this life.

Still I need to talk about another guy who tried to steal my intellectual property. He was an anesthetic. He had no training in pediatrics but was interested in studying TOR or Toxic Oxygen Radical. 

By that time I was into TOR as the base starting point in Inflammation and Interleukin. 

I got one my senior female technician to do the TOR work and her senior technician was a ladies man whom I did not like and refused to associate with. 

I did a close watch on his extracurricular acts and not on his bench work. 

He was a good bench worker but did use shortcuts in his staining work which was not accepted in Research. 

So, he was never tasked with Research Work. He used to undercut Sujatha Ramadasa the next in line of command. 

She unfortunately lacked Research component for her promotion in the Medical Faculty.

I worked in the Dental Faculty.

 

I bumped into her one day and asked her how she was doing. 

She broke and started crying. 

She came from Ratnapura and she did not have any friends in Kandy. 

I told her to give me her resume and I would collaborate in a Research work and I would buy all the chemicals, particularly the  Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) for the project. 

I got her to do some pilot work since to my knowledge nobody had done any work in Ceylon on SOD. 

When I was satisfied I gave her my protocol which that Doctor guy tried to steal from me. 

He was initially one of my supervisors. 

I sacked him from the post of supervisor. 

This was an unprecedented event and I threatened to put my pre-emptive research work on placenta on to the dustbin, if he was not removed legally in a formal meeting with the Faculty of Medicine. 

 

Fortunately, Professor Mendis had the foresight of a breakdown in communication and apportioned 3 supervisors to my project. 

That saved the day for me. 

Miss Sujatha Ramadasa of course got promoted as the Chief Technician when that ladies guy retired. 

That was on the the strength of the SOD Work with me. 

I gave a strong recommendation. 

That ladies guy after retirement used to avoid me in public and he had to retire early on medical grounds. 

He developed herpes related ophthalmitis which affected his vision and bench work. 

 

That brings me to the third guy with whom I had no academic connection. 

 

He used to cover up many deficiencies in the technical and minor staff of the Department of Pathology.

I had to uncover the pilfering of absolute alcohol from the Department store. 

 

I managed to sack 3 in the Department.

1. One stealing petty cash.

2. One stealing Microscope lens

3. One stealing absolute alcohol 

 

The Chief Guy used to cover up these acts.

Then I had a good COMBO.

Mr. Nimal Ranjith Seneviratna who was National Senior athlete and a good opening batman in cricket for Kegalle and Kandy. 

He never told me he was a cricketer but he taught me how to use the Typewriter which I coined "Ko Ko System" of Typing which is not related to Touch Typing.

 

When I did a book on all these guys, I discovered the finer points of their lives.

I did not forget to give a long calls to all of them before my departure from CEYLON.

There is no way, I would return to CEYLON even for a holiday.

I did my parts to "Mother Lanka" in "My Way" and there are no arrears.

My only loss is 2 one terabyte SSD disks with all my DATA of Yesteryear and a few hard copies of my books at Amazon's.

Reflection on J.V.P. and L.T.T.E and Photography

Reflection on J.V.P. and L.T.T.E and Photography

Joe Theodore De Livera in Conversation

I could not find a reliable Electronic Balance in Titus Stores but could find one in the open market of the Pettah Street, of course smuggled, under Rs.5000/= which I used for my Research Work on Placenta. 

Also read underneath what L.T.T.E. and J.V.P. done to our local industry.

I am a photographic addict but I went into colour photography in UK. 

I bought a Peterson Colour Kit but without a good dark room I could not progress. 

We have chatted about this and that for over three hours on a Monday morning in his beautiful home set amidst a large garden in Colombo. 

Was it too long or too short for a colourful personality that is this octogenarian?

Initially, we sit on the lush lawn surrounded by large trees and hedges and then move into the hall bordering a "meda-midula" මැද මිදුල with a pond and more trees, to be served with delicious slices of home-made cake and steaming cups of tea. Finally, we tread upstairs to the large book-lined study, after spending a little time on the balcony, taking in the exercise equipment that he uses and also the view of the surrounding landscape.

Were three hours adequate, we wonder as we leave, to encapsulate the multi-faceted life of this person who has dabbled in many things, very successfully, with trust in God and the murmured whisper of “Thy will be done”.

Where do we begin – this is the question we grapple with. 

May be it would be best to begin with the well-known facets of his life, moving from the known to the unknown.

We have concluded this long interview while also taking photographs of none other than 85-year-old Joe Theodore De Livera in his home down Ananda Rajakaruna Mawatha, Maradana, with an “exquisite” view, in his own words, of Campbell Park.

This is the man, having taken over the ‘legend’ of Main Street in bustling Pettah, ‘Titus Stores’ set up by his father back in 1924, to import and sell the first incandescent lamps, from which the name of the store came about lifted it out of the dumps and also successfully steered it through turbulent times generated by mushrooming modern stores.

Having to weave in many strands to showcase the rich tapestry of Mr. De Livera’s life, we begin at the beginning. 

Joseph Michael De Livera, a teacher, had strong views on how to bring up his one-and-only son (there is one daughter too), while mild Mary Theodora never opposed his will.
So it was to the boarding of Holy Family Convent, Bambalapitiya, that Joe was packed off to from their home in Negombo at the tender age of five. In his father’s mind it was the “best” he could visualize for his son. At 85, his childhood may be a dim memory, but to this day, there is a tinge of sadness as Joe says “it was a terrible thing for a child” for it cut-off his closeness to his parents. He found comfort in singing and Mother Gonzaga recognized his “lovely voice” and got him heavily involved in choral activity.

Next it was a few years at Maris Stella College, where his father had been a teacher, followed by the family moving to a rented home on Gregory’s Road, while young Joe was bundled off to boarding school once again, this time at                   St. Joseph’s College, Maradana. 

Silently the tears would flow, as he longed to be in his own home.
With World War II breaking out, the family once again went back to their Negombo home, with another stint at Maris Stella College for Joe, followed by more years at St. Joseph’s College, Maradana. 

The Race Course was an airstrip, there were Royal Air Force personnel at St. Joseph’s and once the war had stabilized, the Josephians were at their lessons in pol-athu "පොල් අතු" classrooms put up in the premises of Aquinas College. 

Incidentally, the De Livera family’s Negombo home in Thammita is now St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged with 135 elderly.

While the routine at college was daily mass and communion and lessons, he also came under the powerful influence of Fr. Ignatius Perera (who would later set up the Radio & Electronics Laboratory, the first of its kind in Asia) whom he “revered”. 

Although erudite Fr. Ignatius, a scholar in Latin and Greek with a flair for music and singing, did not teach impressionable Joe, he opened up a way of life for the boy, making him the first chorister of the Catholic Choral Society for he had “absolute pitch”. His profound influence made Joe’s love of music blossom.

Singing and music were not Joe’s only passion as a boy of about eight but also photography, starting with an unwieldy box camera – a Kodak Brownie which was “a real black pettiya”.

When asked how that interest developed, there is wry humour as he points out that “maybe it is a matter of the mind” as his parents were both “amusical and aphotographic”. 

Although he was NOT a graduate in Science, Law or Engineering, he says that he has a very broad mind.

There is a pause in our conversation as he pulls out his I-Phone from his shirt pocket and says “this is of course far better” for taking photographs and also waves goodbye to wife, Hermie, about whom he speaks with much pride. “She is a science graduate,” he says, adding that she is a good wife and mother and fantastic cook, going on to explain how she hosted a Soroptimists’ meeting just a few days before, proof of her efficiency.

Both of them have green fingers, he laughs, while his wife has her very own bonsai garden and he also turned architect to come up with the “bold concept and design” of their home which had been admired by renowned architect Geoffrey Bawa.

As he himself says he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and a big businessman he may be as head of Titus Stores, the running of which he took over in 1965, but his track record is impressive. 

He had managed the family’s dairy farm with 2,500 Milch cows on 685-acres in Chilaw as a young man, with a bowser of milk being supplied from there each day to the Milk Board. 

 

This was until the government took over their land in 1972, ending the dairy business.

A strange mix it would seem, for Mr. De Livera had also ventured out to sea, being the pioneering entrepreneur to introduce the first trawler in Sri Lankan waters, initially in Pesalai, Talaimannar, and later in Kalpitiya.

He makes a point to mention that in those days he spearheaded resistance to Indian fishermen entering Sri Lankan waters, referring to the crisis between the two countries in recent times.

His Ceylon Seafood Company boats were trawling around two tons of fish including thoru, moru, thalapath, koppara, loads of small fry and about 50 kilos of prawns per day. However, with the activity of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam mounting around Wilpattu and one of his boatmen being killed by them and also threats from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna increasing around his factory in Negombo, Mr. De Livera had handed over the entire project to the navy, shifting his focus to Kokkadicholai in the East.

It was another landmark achievement for his new company, Serendib Seafood, for it was the first to freeze and export shrimp.   “I started Sri Lanka’s first aquaculture project,” says Mr. De Livera, going back to the 1980s when he would be shuttling between the shrimp hatchery at Pitipana, Negombo, and Manmunai, near Kokkadicholai.

As the post-larvae mortality rate was high when transported by road, he used the Cessna 177 which he had bought for quicker transport between Katunayake and Batticaloa.

This project too had fallen victim to the bloody conflict raging in that area, with 27 of his workers being shot.

These tragedies were the “biggest shock of my life”, he says sadly.

The rest is history.

But the different corners of his study with an attached ‘dark room’ where lies old cameras, meanwhile, provide ample proof of Mr. De Livera’s wide and varied interests.

Self-taught, sans degrees he may be, but the microcosms represented in the study indicate the rounded personality that he is…………avid reader with more than 5,000 books on the shelves, businessman, photographer, dabbler in homeopathy and adoring grandfather. 

For amidst the line-up of accessories he needs for his daily work and relaxation, pride of place is being shared by lots of toys to keep his little five-year-old granddaughter entertained whenever she drops by.
 

From hobby to veteran

Work apart it is with a lot of passion that Mr. De Livera reverts to his pet subject – photography and the Photography Society of Sri Lanka.

He is the senior-most member of this 109-year-old society founded in 1906 to promote photography as a hobby, art and craft and now guides its destinies as its Patron.

His journey behind the lens and the society’s history seem to be inextricably-linked. We learn that the society had been set up as the Amateur Photographic Association of Ceylon by Henry Lorenz Wendt, father of the famous Sri Lankan photographer, artist and musician Lionel Wendt. Later it had been renamed and revamped in 1934 by Lionel Wendt with like-minded people. Those whose contributions that have made the society what it is today include P.J.C. Durrant, B.G. Thornley, Joe De Livera, B.P. Weerawardena and D.C.L. Amarasinghe who would meet at Wendt’s home to pore over and discuss at length the images captured by them.

Mr. De Livera launches into technical details of the cameras cradled by him over the years, starting with the Kodak Brownie Box, then a Kodak Folding Camera which was an improvement on the Brownie as it had a lens with a variable aperture and shutter and later a Rolleiflex. 

Next it was the Leica which he purchased in Zurich, Switzerland, while on a trip to Europe with his father after he had seen Thornley sporting one and he had read about “this revolution” in photography which could produce the 35-mm film format.

Harefield Hall Slipper Orchid, “It was BG (Thornley), as he was known, who introduced the Leica to me although it was Lionel Wendt who first introduced 35-mm photography and the Leica to Ceylon some time before World War II,” says Mr. De Livera in a piece written by R.H. Samarakone, himself a member of the society in ‘Legends’, a series in the society’s newsletters featuring senior members.

“It was after BG brought his Leica II to Ceylon that photographers like me realized the potential of this incredible camera and the 35mm format which later caught on like wild fire,” he adds.

Among the very important persons who purchased a Leica was Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake who joined Mr. De Livera on sojourns around the country clicking snapshots in the 1950s which the latter would develop and print in his darkroom, as he had begun film-processing in a 35mm developing tank brought back from England in 1947.

Experimenting with the Leica, he had also found that it could be used for ‘Macro Photography’, samples of which he shows us in his study.

Realizing that 35-mm cameras were not available in the country, Mr. De Livera had imported and distributed through Titus Stores the Balda camera from Germany in 1955 which was “relatively cheaper” than the Leica, with one of his first customers being visionary science fiction writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

Technicalities flow forth on how Mr. De Livera, much later in the 1990s switched to Digital Photography with an Olympus 1.4 Mega Pixel Camera and more recently a Canon SX 20 IS.

A fitting tribute is paid to Mr. De Livera by Mr. Samarakone when he states: “Keeping abreast with the development of camera technology and having used many of the top of the range equipment of each era, he is one of the very few of the senior photographers who took up digital photography at an early stage of its introduction in 1995. 

Having experimented with various types and styles of photography, he is considered as one who excelled in macro photography in the early days.”

Next he touches on the nomadic lifestyle of the Photographic Society until it found a home at the Lionel Wendt Art Centre, having traveled the full circle.

The early meetings of the society were held on the first Monday of the month at Lionel Wendt’s house on Guilford Crescent, says Mr. De Livera, who had joined the society, on the invitation of Quintus Fernando, a university lecturer, a few months after the death of Wendt in 1944. The meetings continued there even after the death of Wendt until the old house was demolished to make way for the Art Centre.

It was then that the society moved from place to place, gathering in a small room behind the Planters’ Association of Ceylon (the current premises of the Cinnamon Grand Hotel) on Galle Road, moving out when the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation took over this premises; homeless for awhile; then the Young Men’s Christian Association in Fort; thereafter Mr. De Livera’s Dad’s residence, ‘Rendlesham’ down Stafford Place (now known as Sri Vipulasena Mawatha), Colombo 10; and finally a permanent home in the newly-built Lionel Wendt Art Centre.

Giving his input during the construction phase, it had been Mr. De Livera who suggested a solution to the lack of ventilation in the society’s meeting hall, a line of windows at the top around 15 feet from the ground which could be opened and closed by fixing a thick string. “These are still there,” he adds.

 

Placenta

 Placenta

It is a fascinating story how placenta came into existence from an unprotected egg to marsupian duck bill platipus to the nursing mother.

I won't go into evolution but write a few lines about the placenta for posterity.

The placenta is a big parasite.

It evades maternal immune rejection and we have not yet worked out its mysterious ways.

It is discarded with only a cursory look,  at the time of birth, since the baby is the center of attraction.

After 1970s only a few have done any in depth studies.

I am not going to land with list of questions but take a little pause and write few lines.

I have done some basic investigations which are published for perusal but never bothered to write a few line of its mastery in evasion of hostility in evolution.

Placental HLA or human leukocyte antigens are different from maternal antigens.

It is intimately associated with maternal blood and maternal antibodies and lymphocytes.

Its HLA antigens arise early in embryonic development and it projects a potent barrier while invading the maternal uterus.

It has two layers one foetal and one maternal.

Amnion and Chorion (from which the placenta develops) are foetal.

It has only two layers of cells, the cellar cytotrophoblast layer and the multicellular syncytiotrophoblast layer.
Only the multicellular counterpart is seen when the placenta becomes mature.

It does not become old but gradually  disintegrates after 40 weeks.

It resembles the symbiotic cell at the beginning of evolution, all mucoprotein but no nuclear material and a few fragments of nuclear material arranged as syncytial knots.

How does a large syncytium works in a all pervasive cellular world?

That is the only question of mine in this piece.

Basalis is the maternal mesoderm that gets vascularized gradually and extensively.

Basalis is maternal where spiral arteries empty its contents and filter all foetal blood to maternal venous sinuses.

It grows up to 40 weeks of gestation and wither off by 42 weeks.

It provides all the foetal hormones and control the maternal pituitary gland.

That's all about it.

HCG or Human Choriogonadotrophic Hormone is foetal and no counterparts in adults except its oestrogenic and progesterone actions.

My only contribution here is the large and mysterious Fibrinonection, mucopolysaccharide and protein molecule that are seen in the placenta especially up to 36 weeks of gestation which provide a ground base of nutrition and virtual mop up molecule  or barrier for maternal antibodies present and in evolution, over the course of pregnancy..

This is almost same to the Fibrinonectin that exudes at the site of injury before granulation tissue of healing invades it.

Almost the same Fibrinonectin that provides a scaffolding for the cancer cells to form an angiogenic front.

So in my view, Fibrinonectin which I call the molecular glue does all the work by itself without a nucleus.

So it may be the grand old evolutionary molecule equal in potential to heat shock protein that started the life on this planet.

Nobody has done any worthwhile work on Heat Shock Protein (HSP) that are present in prokaryocytes and eukaryocytes. 

AI generated "Subbe Saththa Ummattica" Principle

This peace is going to be in my book "Story of 3 Dogs".

I believe in AI  analysis on

1. Linux and its potential

2. Creative activity such as blogging and serious writing.

I do not believe that the AI that has no Emotions could assess, even the Psychology of a happy dog.

Stress

Anxiety 

Depression were the 3 components studied on undergraduates.

In which field of study the undergraduates were in, was not mentioned or apparently not randomized.

I have a very important information that psychologists and psychiatrists commit suicide more often than a bare bone patholigists.

I was one of them in my active life.

Radiologists also are happy people and they do not commit suicide.

So, I believe AI is more helpful in Radiology and Pathology than in Psychology even without a prospective study.

Radioligist study an evolving situation and pathologist retrospectively at the dead end with no consequences, except in the case of murder ot accidentsl death.

I always look at all the Xrays before taking the scalpel but I won't expose even a dead body to radioactive elements.

I tend to believe that the bacteria that thrive on dead or decomposing substances may mutate by exposing the dead body to Xrays.

The bacteria automatically should go through the objective evolutionary process with purpose.

I do not put suicide in the accidental category but in the "proactive" category.

I believe suicide can be prevented according to qualitative study (not quantitative study) by my friend Tudor De Silva who is also probably is in his retirement mode away from active service.

This study was in NEJM which was my number 1 journal during my active service.

They still send me a preview of the journal just published.

Thank You.

I have stopped subscribing to LINUX Magazine. They have stopped sending me previews now, including Linux Voice.

I do not need any more information on LINUX since my book on "LINUX Essentials" is almost finished.

Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences.

 Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences

I got an inkling that I was appointed as the Dean of the Faculty of Dental Sciences.. 

I waited for the postman but the letter was not in the mail. 

I had two other letters but they were not official. 

I walked into the Department of Pathology and Miss Mantree Ugugama hand delivered the letter. 

I refused to accept it saying it violate the protocol.

 

Then I walked into the V.C.'s office to see that he did not have a minute for me. 

 

He was attending to a private affair of a child of another academic member. 

 

I withhold both of their names.

But, I told him that I am sick and I cannot accept the post by hand delivery of a letter. 

 

It has to come through proper channels.

 

Then I had a casual look at the old office of the Dean and realized it was converted into a makeshift store with cupboards and books hanging around.

 

Then I peeped through the new Dean's office.

 

It was a rat infested derelict dungeon.

I went back to the Senate to report sick officially. 

 

Then there was a plot to kill me by pushing to a dark hole in the Art's Faculty Students Auditorium. 

I survived hanging on to a ridge but sustained paella break. 

I walked into the V.C. Office limping and told Vice Chancellor that I broke my patella and there was an attempt to kill me.

 

He said that it (Patella injury) is a disqualification. 

I told him we had a Dean with a limp.

 

He did  not want to entertain my disability.

I woke up but nevertheless made an ENTRY at the Peradeniya Police Station, that there was an attempt on my life knowing very well they do not take action on Campus Disputes.

JVP poisoning me at Undugoda Hospital

There were two reasons, I joined Nawaloka Hospital Administration.

 

Before that I would have a slant on School Cricket of Yesteryear, JVP and Police.

Police First

 

Our Police Force was good before N. M. Perera and Sirimavo Bandaranayike regime.

 

DIG. C. C. Dissanayake, Sarem and Zoyza were convicted in 1962 of a coup to overthrow the government. I believe Catholic Church was behind this SAGA but things were hushed up.

By the time P. B. Herath became the DIG under Senior Premadasa, police was degraded to a very bad state.

Cricket Second 

T. B. Kelegamuva, G. S. Ratnanayake and S.U. Mendis (joined Air Force) were former cricketers who made Police Serviceman worth remembering.

JVP poisoning me at Undugoda Hospital

 

At Undugods we had a police officer (O.I.C) demoted for assaulting a  sitting MP. 

I think his name is N. P. Navarastne of ?Minipe.

 

He had another case pinned on him murdering a local thug in Kegalle with the help of the School Inspector, Grama Niladhari and a few others. 

This place was not under my jurisdiction and I was given summons which I could not refuse since others who were senior refused on flimsy grounds.

 

My first mission was another murder where army officer committing suicide after killing his wife and children. 

I reported sick on this occasion.

 

Well, I said OK but after I finish my clinical work and only after 4.30PM.

 

Well he is dead he can wait was my attitude.

 

The ploy was to send my PM assistant to the site and do the preliminary spy investigation. 

He told me it is blue murder.

 

Police wanted it to be Accidental but I made it to be an Open Verdict by my presentation in the Magistrate Court.

This officer came to meet me in the University to change my stance.

I told him if you see me again on this issue I am going to make a formal complaint to the DIG. 

I never saw him again.

This preamble is to show how fed up, I was with the Department of Health.

I was finding a way to scoot off from Health.

The Undugoda Hospital was one which was occupied by the JVP for their injured carder.

It was secured by police after a fierce fight. 

 

The Chief  Medical Officer a Tamil doctor left for his wedding and he never returned.

The hospital had 100 beds and there were nearly 200 working staff. One per each bed and considering two shifts day and night.

The best ratio of the Entire World.

99% of the staff were JVP carder.

 

Their ploy was to bring fear into me and chase me out of the hospital.

1. Chief Clerk was a rogue and a money lender from Hospital cash.

I caught him first.

2. The Marketing Department Supply officer was another crook.

3. Dispenser cashed one rupee for every prescription.

4. Only the young pharmacist who was a Tamil I could trust and kept a proper record.

5. Two Assistants

One Tamil RMP senior enough to call my father.

6. One AMP a Muslim guy.

Both had a rollicking Private Practice.

It was corrupt to the CORE.

 

My first appointment.

My mission was to leave this place soon before I was murdered.

 

1. First they put a rotten rat in to the overhead water tank. 

I got them to clean them until 3AM. 

 

2. Threatened me with a Chris knife.

I had enough witnesses.

He was sent off.

I made sure he did not do that again until he knel  down to me and apologize.

 

3. (a) Then they put poison in my food.

I survived with one month medical leave. 

This is after I had leave for Chickenpox infection.

I had hardly any time for clinical work.

I got  my own cook and a guard.

One and the same guy.

I got the a Police Squad to visit me on false pretext.

The guy who allegedly assaulted sitting MP Navaratne Banda of Minipe was transferred to a higher position when when UNP came into power.

 A guy who was in a Private Police Guard for Sirimavo Bandaranayake was sent as acting O. I. C. 

It was a demotion.

I got some advice from Daniel in Ratnapura Hospital, Chief attendant where I did my Internship.

I was poisoned three times.

 

3. (b) Second one I detected after the first mouthful and investigated and made sure that she did not stay in my neighborhood. 

 

3. (c) Third time was in a private nursing home 

Nursing officer was caught and sacked. 

 

Do not trust these good looking nurses.

Read Murder in the N.H.S. where one of my senior friends in UK was falsely accused.

 

I was not poisoned at Navaloka Hospital. 

I did not have anything except a cup of tea at the director's executive lounge.

I did not eat there.

Continue on Undugo Hospital, I had a another strateg.

This was the time Jaffna was rampant with Cholera epidemic.I got a Guy who visited Jaffna admitted with diarrhoea. 

I confirm it as Cholera.

Hospital was quarantined with only hospital staff and diarrhoea patients were admitted. 

It was an opportunity for me to teach the entire staff according to the WHO protocol.

I was a headache for the S. H. S.

I used to visit him after court attendance. He said you have many complaints.

Are there any documented complaints.

So put those "JVP  කැලා පත්තර" to the dustbin and release me to the University on Seconded Service.

By this time, I secured a post in the University.

Not one but several. 

The DHS then did not release me on flimsy grounds. Nobody wanted to take my place.

By this time I had few informants from COLOMBO office.

I used to get who is on Acting Duty and specially the acting secretary. 

He was a slimy guy.

I went to him and said please do not send me to Department of Pathology. 

I have to do filthy postmortems. 

Beside the professor is a nasty guy. 

He said come in 2 weeks. 

He got the letter signed by the DHS. 

I said thank You, Sir.

He wanted the doctors say big %Thank You Sir", in loud voice, in front of his subordinates.

Then my leave after 6 years of service in the University on NO PAY Leave was du.

This was deliberately delayed.

I said I am already released and if you do not appoint me to Colombo General Hospital, I am buying a ticket to UK and leaving for good.

While this delberate delay was going on I made an appointment with the Permanent Secretary of the Health. 

He was a smart guy. 

One Dr. P. D. Silva (I am not sure).

He called the DHS and ordered him to appoint me to Colombo, General by 3PM.

This DHS named Jesudasan had many other complaints.

I guess he was sacked subsequently.

I would continue this later.

I got to test Steam OS now.

Steam OS stinks. 

It cannot be installed on a PC. 

The Valve guys are getting scared.

Lot of Linux Game OSes are coming to the forefront.

Navaloka Hospital 

When, I joined as an administrator cum a duty officer of the laboratory, it was a stingy mess.

I got Navaloka Hospital to appoint, 3 resident doctors since Visiting Consultants including his Son In Law were rougues making flase claims.

Medicne Vajira Ratnayake.

Surgery Maiya Gunasekara

Third I cannot remeber but an Obstetrician to be avalable during working hours so that the Visiting Consultants cannot plunder innocent patients unless they specifically want a particular consultant to see their ailments.

I threatened to Black List a few of them with written complaints in my hand.

Suffice is to say that the Services improved tremendously.

Earlier I said I had two reasons. 

1. One to see how a private nursing home works

2. Two to institute a Quality Control Procedure.

Navoloka, is the first hospital to get the National Quality Award.

Somehow, Chandrika Kumaranatunge got whiff of me and sent a note to me through a guy from Nittambuwa. 

To built and operation a COOP Hospital. 

I said 9 months only and accomplish that and immediately after joined the University on Permanent basis. 

All these time I was doing Temporary or Seconded services. 

I also said until the salary scale is above the private sector I would not join. 

I quietly put a word to Chandrika but she wouldn't budge.

 

Of course, we had to organize a work to rule under Mahinda Rajapaksa and he acceded.

Undugoda Hospital

 

Since politics is not interesting, I would insinuate this true story.

This story I have not stated here before.

I have agrophobia or fear of snakes which is long standing. 

I have even killed a tiny cobra under my bed with a ruler. 

I was only 3 years of age.

 

That would have been the reason for ongoing fear of snakes.

My first job as an Acting District Medical Officer was in Kegalle Province. 

It was called Undugoda Hospital and was occupied by JVP during 1973 insurrection.

The quarters was not occupied by a Resident Officer for a long time and was infested with lot of rats.

 

Low be hold!

A King Cobras did decide to reside on the roof of the quarters. 

It was not high roof but low. 

I could touch the rafter standing on my bed.

I could not locate its residential area after a week of inspection.

This Cobra was very crafty and it did know where to hide. In the meantime, all the hospital staff said that this snake was nasty. 

Their plan was for me to commute daily from Kandy and without a car it was not a reasonable ploy.

I decided to stay put and bought a powerful torch.

My bed was a high hospital bed. 

There was no problem at day time and this Cobra appears only after night, around 7PM.

I do a roof survey before alighting from the bed several times but never could locate the Cobra. 

The moment I step out of the bed I hear the noise of the Cobra alighting from the roof.

 

Now I know cobras do not hear but have a powerful proprioception up to 18 to 20 feet and they keep this distance by default and away from humans.

This is not true of young cobras and they are as poisonous as adults.

In the first few days I used to step across it's belly in the verandah.

I used to delay my exit from the verandah and then I see it crossing in front of me in the open yard.

This Cobra counted every step of me but never intended to harm me.

The Cobra was always ahead of me and never after. After two weeks I settled down and hospital staff knew I was not going to leave.

 

The hospital staff tried several other intimidatory tactics but all failed and a few of them got transferred out the hospital. 

 

That was the only way, the Superintendent of Health Service could keep me in the station.

It lasted only 7 months and I used to see this Cobra daily but never a hint of harm but cohabitation in real style with rat problem solved without rat poison.

I left the hospital, telling the staff never to harm this King Cobra.

 

During the latter stages of my life I have had several Cobra Episodes.

Now with the election campaign fully on we would see real Human Cobras in action twisting and turning lies after lies. 

Swallow them with care.

I was lucky to be seconded to the University from where I did not migrate except to Colombo General Hospital.

Then abroad.

Then Private Sector.

Then University again until retirement.