A “must-read” new book in Tamil on Lankan President Dissanayake
Veteran journalist D.B.S.Jeyaraj’s book in Tamil on Sri Lanka’s incumbent President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is a good introduction to the man now at the helm. But the question as to whether his rise could be described as victory of a “class struggle” in the Marxian...
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