Dr Sudath Gunasekara

Dear Saman,

 I fully agree with all what the President has said in his address under the caption 

” Sri Lanka unveils blueprint to transform outdated plantation sector to thriving agro-business ” etc that appeared in today’s Lankaweb and I would like to congratulate him for this novel approach that will give a new lease of life to the plantation sector.

This is the first visionary approach on the plantation sectorI ever came across, made by any politician or any other person, including any  expert economist or a policy maker at home or even abroad including the World Bank since the so-called Independence in 1948.

The only recorded exception, I have come across in this regard  is what John Still (1930) a planter and antiquarian has predicted in this regard, wehe he said ‘the commercial agricultural system in Ceylon would slide back in to forest quicker than the ancient tank agricultural system on the Island”  Therefore, once again my hearty congratulations to the President and whoever conceived this brilliant Idea. I only hope that all other politicians,policymakers and economic pundits will take a clue from what the President had said.

 But of course I fully disagree with the idea of creating  mono Tamil villages within the plantation areas in the Central hill country, the geographical entity that decides the destiny of the entire life system and the survival of the great civilization of this Island nation, Even the celebrated American Diplomat who wrote his classic on Sri Lankan plantation economy” Dilemma of a Nation” had not being able to see the need for such visionary change,

Therefore I shall be most grateful to you  if you could advise him on the danger of creating mono   Tamil villages  right at the center of this country. 

Further, I am attaching herewith an  article I have published in the Lankaweb News Forum that may be useful to you to convince the President  on the dangers of having such Tamil settlements on the geographical Heartland of this country.

Also I am attaching another article I published in the Lankaweb where I have outlined a way out  to solve the current political impasse that hinders our forward march as a nation for your information. After reading it, you may show it to the President as well  if you like.

With best wishes

Dr Sudath Gunasekara

ගරු ජනාධිපති තුමනි, අමාත්‍ය වරුණි, වතුකරයේ තනි දෙමළ ගම්මාන පිහිටුවීමේ අමාත්‍ය මන්ඩල යෝජනාව පහත සඳහන් හේතු නිසා වහාම හකුළාගත යුතුයි.

Mr President ban all these communal and separatist and terrorist political organizations and take legal action against these terrorist leaders and their agitators immediately or depart.