Sri Lanka: Asgiriya Priests — After all their arrogance is artificial
I have always said that I like to meet the so called hardliners among the Sinhala Buddhists. In the Members of the Karaka Sabha I found some of them. I have confidence that we could if given time, wean them from their hardline stance to transform them to become humanes like the Matwatte Priest, After all their arrogance is artificial. It is based on false beliefs, wrong presumptions and distorted perceptions.
Keynote address by Justice C.V. Wigneswaran Chief Minister, Northern Provincial Council At the launch of the Book “Rajapakse the Sinhala Selfie” authored by Kusal Perera along with Sinhala Collections of Essays by him “83 Daruwo” edited by Krishan Siriwardene at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, Colombo
( September 13, 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) It gives be immense pleasure to be involved in this book launch. Apart from Kusal being a friend of ours who was kind enough to accompany us to meet the Mahanayake Theros last weekend, the book launched by him is also about a friend of his who is Rajapakse the Sinhala Selfie. A selfie takes our own photograph. When Mahinda Rajapakse takes one he sees not Rajapakse but a Sinhala man. What sort of Sinhala man is he, is what Kusal talks about in his book.