This post is for future reference.
Gotabaya had lot of good military habits and several bad political habits.
Management of Coronavirus with a few exceptions was excellent.
We had the lowest death rate in Southeast Asia.
Lowering the VAT as promised during campaign crippled our economy. That was a political suicide.
Those "Viath Maga" University Clan including their Health Minister were crooks by all means.
Countries involved in destabilizing Ceylon were USA, UK, European Union and India.
The Day 22-07-2022 was the day it culminated. It started in January, 2022.
Aragalaya is the wrong term. This was a doctored colour revolution started by a hitherto unknown female local actress.
She was stage crafted and she just disappeared.
It was a Grand Conspiracy to oust the sitting government by illegal means.
It was the biggest failure of the judiciary in Ceylon.
No lawyer raised a single objection.
In fact, lawyers were part of the conspiracy they were blatant hindrance to good governence protocol.
Good Governence itself was stage crafted for particular purpose.
It has created a very bad precedence in Ceylon.
Rump LTTE was behing this secretly.
It was not a peaceful protest.
One sitting MP was brutality murdered.
Uptil now no proper investigation was done except the doctor's postmortem examination.
There were many more brutal incidents over a short period of time.
No Truth Commission would spring up on the lines of Nelsan Mandela style.
Everybody has forgotten what Coronavirus did to us. I projected that it would take 20 years for us to recover from the economic crisis. This tragedy came on top "Bond Scam" and financial mismanagement.that ensued.
America has a strategic military plan for Ceylon (Ranil was the self appointed Golden Boy for America).
He said Yes, to this project without reservation and has signed most of what America needed.
India is doing the rest of the bidding using Presdent of the current government.
He was the first president who only got 44.5% of the popular vote.
Mahinda Deshapriys Second cound Saga could not be verified. It was certified under mysterious setting.
No legal luminary contesting the outcome.
Shady deal.
Only thing Ranil did was to delay payment of debt till 2028.
That is not a big economic golf stroke.
Kindergarten Stuff.
His plan is to put the current government into crisis by 2028.
This is actually, two years before the scheduled election.
We should not let Ranil come back to power when current government fails, in due course.
He should not be made a sitting MP by means of the List MP Saga.
He is an ace crook.
Ideal combo for CIA.
He was a rejected guy by all means.
A political pest.
Moment if, he comes to power, Mihintale would be donated to America fot an Air Base.
Already Hambantota is handed over to China on 99 year lease, just like Hong Kong was given to Britain by China.
China is the fiddler on the roof playing the tune (second innings of the British game in reverse) which British would be proud of.
India is trying to dominate Trincomale with the help of rump LTTE.
This Ranil guy is all out to ruin our Universities and start Private Fee Paying Universities. He unceremonially disposed our UGC Chairman Professor Ranjith Mendis.
He was Jewel of of University Crown.
What a loss?
I have already left the country having contributed all my working life to Ceylon except for 6 years.
Peradeniya University was only one place out of many.
My contribution to Private Medical Institutions in Ceylon was significant including the "National Quality Award" for Navaloka Hospital.
This piece is for guys left in Ceylon to revisit.
I have no current or future interest in Ceylon.
I am M.B.B.S (Ceylon) guy.
I was proud of the name Ceylon and Ceylon Tea.
I continue promote Ceylon Tea.
Ceylon Tea is my daily driver.
Mesna Tea tops the list.
That is why I resist using Sri-Lanka or Sir-Lanka in practical terms.
Just a shift of r and i not a spelling mistake.
This includes my contribution to creating the new Faculty of Dental with the help of JICA. This was a gift from Japan to Doing Bloody Well, D.B. Wijetunge. He did not stay long enough for the opening. It was completed within 18;months. Chandrika Kumaranatunge did the opening of this new premise and as usual she came 6 hours late. I was used to her coming late.
I did a project for her in Nittambuwa and she came 6 hours late.
Knowing this, I feed the girls who came for "Jayamangala Gatha" well in advance and released the girls no sooner the official ceremony was over.
There was a Gate Crash.
She was very popular.
I could not get in.
I stayed out knowing very well she would call me in.
She did.
Another official guest (me) entered in and ushered her to the food table. She politely said NO for Milk Rice and spend a little time chatting with her loyals.
By nature, she was very polite to professionals unlike current guys holding high posts.
Of course I had some milk rice, oil cakes and cokkis.
They were delicious.
Soon after, I jumped into a Kandy bus.
There was no ragging made possible in the Faculty of Dental Science, for the entire period of 15 years of my stay.
But I was told it was not so in the Halls of Residences. Never bothered to venture into them off duty.
I never talked about these things at home.
A family member sarcastically asked me what I have done, all my life during my academic years.
I enumerated several things.
Get rid of politics from universities was Number One.
Universities are for higher education and not for politics.
If undergraduates want to do politics they ought to enter a University that promote ONLY politics.
By the way Politics is not Scientific.
When I was in the Students Council I went with PSU leader to meet the then Vice Chancellor.
We had Rs.60,000 in the PSU account.
Student leaders used to take money from this acvount without giving receipts.
The money was put in a fixed deposit and only the interest was used for student activities.
We requested VC to pass a By Law to produce a valid receipt for all the expenses of PSU, above Rs.100/=.
There wasn't a single student strike for a very long time.
The money swindling (opportunities) loopholes were virtually closed.
Professor E.O.E. Peraira (1969 to 1971) was the VC. He was a very nice Burgher Gentleman with broken Sinhala vocabulary.
I entered the University in 1968.
I captained University Hockey Team in 1973. I used appear only for the tournament games and my deputy 3 years younger, a medical student managed all the matches but I decided the team on the day of the match.
Plan is to win the game.
With only a handful of medical students we came third behind Faculty of Engineering and Science in athletics.
We beat the Engineering Faculty in the final hockey game.
If I remeber right I got the highest score (did not matter) for athletics in six events which included relays.
Worst experience was running 400 meters Hurdle but I finished third. I had done 200 in school and never 400.
I used to do the "Army Obstacle - Warmup- Race" daily as the warm up before playing one hour of hockey.
I came first with the best timing.
This was outside the 6 events allowed for one individual.
This is to highlight that Peradeniya had all the sporting facilities except swimming pool.
However we collected Rs.100,000/= for the swimming pool fund. During my stay in UK UNP government added some money and built the swimming pool. It was leaking from the veey first day due to shoddy construction. When I joined the University again as a permanent staff member we did the relayering of concrete with enormous cost.
I could not have a dip in this facility. Swimming is not my fancy sport.
It is very hard sport.
Regarding Buddhist activities, for the first time in the history of Faculty of Medicine we had a Pirith Ceremony in the Medical Library. We only had a room for the library in the Dean's Office. Within a short time period, two story library was built.
Pirith was to me very boring but I had to be up for all the rituals for the monks.
After mid night and "Ata-Natiya Pirith", I got our Billiard Banda to open the billiard room and I got him to teach me all the tricks till Pirith Ceremony was over. Subsequently, I improved my game with my Dental Friend Laxamn Denipitiya (very successful in America) at the Faculty Club, famous for liqueur. Patrick Denipitiya the singer is his relation. We only had beer to calm our nerves. I was his best man. I met him once after that, in one of our Internation Symposiums.
He was invited to give a guest lecture.
Markan Marker was the billiard boy at the Faculty club. We used to walk from Kandy to the Ra Kade near Mahaiyawa cemetery.
I climb up alone to Aruppola. He waits till I reach the top and jump into a bus to go to Wattegama. He used to point and show me Kola Diviya or the Jungle Cat.
Eyes beeming, the guy disappears in a flash. If a dog comes out there is no escape. Because of this jungle cat my walk is never interrupted by dogs.
Early days I did not have a car but Taxi Hire was Rs. 2.50 to 5.00.
There were no Taxis after 11PM but midnight bus services were regular.
Billiards is my favorite game and I haven't played a game for over 3 years.
I could find a place in Australia.
I joined the University within seven months of the Internship as seconded officer from Health Department. During this period I put a trap for undergraduates coming from a particular School from Kurunegala, cheating at examinations. None of them got higher classes for the last 3 years.
Of course these students hated me.
I was very particular about ragging during students days and as teacher.
I would say it was bit of a failure.
Then there was sinister operation to introduce drugs to students.
This was discovered by accident.
I found a few students dosing off during my lecture. They have to show 80% attendance. I had a strict attendance register. They have to sign not tick off on a box. I checked all the signatures myself.
They were told five year prison sentence for forging somebody else's signature.
I did a head count and match with the signatures. This simple protocol made it easier for late comers. They have to eat some food.
Mornings Lectures the doors are closed exactly five minutes past 8.00AM.
I confronted a student and said I am going to send you to University Doctor for drug testing.
He begged me not to and I obliged.
Any more doping, I would punish YOU was my response.
Then I quietly investigated how the drugs are brought to the University. Guys who bring lunch packets to the University were involved.
I reported this to the VC who was 15 years younger who was a political appointee.
He said he cannot do that, due to fear of recrimination by the drug pedlars.
Only thing he did was to close one entry point (out of many) which I discovered.
That was the last time I visited the University.
I send a message later to the VC, "Do not bother to send me any invitation for any university function".
I am sad to say within 5 years of me leaving the University, all the bad habits have resurfaced.
I categorically say NPP/JVP guys were involved in these sordid activities.
Worse part is now these guys are running our country.
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