Dayan’s Gimmicks
A Kindly Response to Dayan Jayatilleka on the National Question
| by Laksiri Fernando
( April 14, 2014, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian ) I had a difficulty in understanding why Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka lumped Kumar David and me together and called ‘Trotskyists’ in his tortuous reply (“Minority Report: Sri Lanka’s Tamil Question,” Sri Lanka Guardian, 13 April 2014) because we were never in one political party although the respective organizations we belonged were called ‘Trotskyists.’ On my part it was before 1982 as Dayan fully well know. It is not a good academic practice to label people to create prejudices.
I also couldn’t understand what was this ‘Minority Report’ in Dayan’s title of the article, while he is quite free to call it the ‘Tamil Question’ instead of the ‘national question.’ But it can give the wrong impression.
