දුශ්ශීලවාදයෙන් පසු රනිල්ගේ අනන්යතා වාදය
At the D.R. Wijewardena awards the opposition leader blamed journalists for destroying the Sri Lankan identity that Wijewardena began and D.S. Senanayake built. Ivan answers with the history: the 1911 educated Ceylonese seat, the manoeuvre to keep a Karava candidate out of it, and Ponnambalam Ramanathan brought back from retirement in India to prevent it. Palaces built on sand fall down, and this one was built by Ranil Wickremesinghe’s own forebears.
පාසල් අධ්යාපනයේදී අදක්ෂ දරුවන් ගැන
Ivan tells parents that a child who fails at school is not a failure. Fewer than five in a hundred who enter school reach university, and academic success is only one ladder upward: D.S. Senanayake, the least able of three brothers, became the first Prime Minister, and Martin Wickramasinghe, schooled to the seventh grade, became the country’s greatest man of letters. He urges parents to find the talent a child has and steer it into good vocational training, ideally in English so the way abroad stays open.
ව්යවස්ථා සභාව, උයන්ගොඩ හා විග්නේෂ්වරම්
The Jathika Hela Urumaya objects to Jayadeva Uyangoda’s nomination to the Constitutional
Council because he once served a twelve-year sentence, and the prime minister to C.V.
Wigneswaran’s. Ivan answers that the 1977 government repealed the law Uyangoda was sentenced
under and gazetted that it should not follow him, that Gandhi, Mandela and D.S. Senanayake
were all imprisoned men, and that being Tamil does not make a retired Supreme Court judge a
separatist. The deeper fault, he argues, is a constitution written to place the president
above itself.