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Dayan Jayatilleke fires back at Germany and the western alliance
- Thread starter saraprobe
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Colombo, 18 March, (Asiantribune.com): Dayan Jayatilleke, academic and well-known political commentator, is tipped to be the next Sri Lankan ambassador to be accredited to the United Nations in Geneva. He is due to replace Mrs. Sarala Fernando, the present ambassador to Geneva.
Jayatilleke completed his Ph D at the Griffiths University, Queensland, Australia and returned to his substantive post as lecturer at the Colombo University in December. He will be moving into a sensitive post where issues of human rights will take centre stage.
He is the son of Mervyn de Silva, the respected journalist who was the founder editor of The Guardian and the nephew of veteran journalist Nevile de Silva.
- Asian Tribune -
Jayatilleke completed his Ph D at the Griffiths University, Queensland, Australia and returned to his substantive post as lecturer at the Colombo University in December. He will be moving into a sensitive post where issues of human rights will take centre stage.
He is the son of Mervyn de Silva, the respected journalist who was the founder editor of The Guardian and the nephew of veteran journalist Nevile de Silva.
- Asian Tribune -
saraprobe said:
dude
you have forget to add something...
-“Dayan is currently the Editor of the Lanka Guardian, founded by his father, senior journalist Mervyn de Silva. For those with short memories, Jayatilleke was better known as Anuruddha Tilakasiri during the Premadasa era, when he wrote a regular column for the Observer, taking on most of Premadasa’s many pugnacious detractors. Now, Jayatilleke has metamorphosed into Editor, turning the Lanka Guardian into a magazine that is largely a reflection of the Editor’s convictions.”
“If the Lanka Guardian is a reflection of Dayan’s ideology, then it's not surprising that the Guardian has also carried various tracts and analysis intermittently on Marxist doctrinal affairs. But, compared to the force of the pro-Premadasist, fiercely anti-PA stance [note: PA refers to the People’s Alliance headed by Chandrika Kumaratunga, the then President] that the magazine now regularly adopts, the little nod at dialectical Marxism is a quaint aberration it appears.
To me, Jayatileke embodies the noveau capitalist ideologue, and since ‘capitalist ideologues’ did not exist in the same sense that ‘Marxist ideologues’ existed, I see Jayatilleke as one among a new breed of ideologues who have emerged in the vacuum created by the ‘death’ of Marxist ideologues in the post-Cold War political discourse.
by Rajpal Abenayake
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