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Galba\u2019s Tales of Parliamentary Affairs from the Inside: \u201cWow\u201d!-by Michael Roberts<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Hugh Karunanayake, \u2026\u00a0with the title and the highlighting being impositions by The Editor, Thuppahi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Nihal Seneviratne, the former Secretary General of Sri Lanka\u2019s Parliament which he served with distinction and diligence for 33 years, has published his autobiographical memoir entitled \u201cMemories of 33 years in Parliament\u201d.\u00a0 Written in a very readable, chatty style of prose,\u00a0it is indeed a compendium of the highlights of the nation\u2019s legislative workings over the past three decades<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Nihal<\/p>\n

If anyone dares to call the nation\u2019s Parliament a \u201ccircus\u201d, then surely the Secretary General, together with the Speaker\u00a0 must be the \u201cringmasters\u2019 of the circus! It is most definitely a vantage point from which a person appointed under the Constitution of the country,\u00a0as Secretary General of Parliament,<\/strong>\u00a0could view the inner dynamics of the workings of an institution entrusted by the people to guide the destinies of this fair island of ours.<\/strong>\u00a0Any unbiased reader of this book will conclude that the author was eminently suitable for the role, given his honesty, impartiality, tact, and above all the intellectual capacity to handle \u201cthe unexpected.\u201d A read through the book will reveal how \u201cthe unexpected\u201d manifested itself many a time, and how the amiable Secretary General rose to the occasion in dealing with the issues which may have taken a toll on a person with lesser make up.<\/span><\/p>\n

The author Nihal Seneviratne, now in his 88th year, is blessed both\u00a0 with a remarkably retentive memory and the capacity to analyse and\u00a0 review\u00a0 major legislative events in the country over the past three decades; a task he has performed so eminently in this publication.. The author was educated at the Royal Primary School and\u00a0 Royal College, Colombo from where he joined the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya as a student in the then newly established Law faculty. Arming himself with a Bachelor of Laws degree three years later, he was on the cusp to enroll in one of the Ivy league Universities in the USA for which he had obtained a Smith Mundt scholarship, when a serendipitous turn of events saw him employed in his first job as Second Clerk Assistant in the Parliament of Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon) in 1961. He was interviewed for the position by Dudley Senanayake, then leader of the House of Representatives, and the Speaker RS Pelpola. Dudley read out Nihal\u2019s Royal College background and curriculum vitae and quipped \u201cYoung man you have done very well in your school. The only thing is that you went to the wrong school\u201d to which the young Nihal\u00a0 may have been prompted to say \u201dSir, I went to the right school, you went to the wrong school.\u201d However, discretion, as they say, is the better part of valour, so young Nihal held back, showing remarkable tact and\u00a0 maturity, qualities that shone throughout his career as the most senior official\u00a0 in Sri Lanka\u2019s Parliament for years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The author during his 33 years as a parliamentary official of which 13 years were spent as Secretary General of Parliament, the nation\u2019s foremost institution and source of its legislative enactments and governance,\u00a0was\u00a0privileged to have a \u2018 ringside\u2019 view of the major events that occurred during the last three decades<\/strong>.\u00a0Some of them since mired by partial unsubstantiated accounts, and others simply forgotten through the mists of the dim distant past, are now presented In\u00a0 this book with the stamp of authority\u00a0 of the former Secretary General himself. These include such momentous events like the hand grenade attack in Parliament which took the life of one MP and almost that of the Minister for Security Lalith Athulathmudali; the events surrounding the loss of civic rights of Mrs Bandaranaike, \u201ca stranger in the chamber\u2019 and the unique exercise of authoritarian power by\u00a0 conducting a trial of two journalists by Parliament for doing their duty, and other episodes now almost rubbed out of the nation\u2019s psyche \u00a0with more startling contemporaneous issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

This book also throws some light on the\u00a0mores<\/em>\u00a0of our leaders in dealing with Parliamentary staff<\/strong>.\u00a0The author is universally and affectionately known by his nickname \u201cGalba\u201d acquired in school at Royal College, a name that has withstood the tests of time. The genesis of that acquisition is dealt with in an amusing aside to his story. It is interesting to note that leaders like Mrs Bandaranaike and Premadasa, always addressed him as Nihal, while Felix Dias Bandaranaike a contemporary of the author called him by his nickname \u201dGalba\u2019. The redoubtable Colvin R de Silva who is generally more egalitarian in other spheres of his life, was however wont to address him by the more formal and hierarchical \u201cSeneviratne\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book is replete with photographs on his travels overseas and his encounters with world leaders he was privileged to meet, notes on his parents and family including references to his late elder brother Nissanka known as \u201cBull\u201d in Royal College. Nissanka after qualifying as a physician worked as the Professor of Physiology together with Professor ACE Koch in the University prompting students to refer to the department as the \u201cCock and Bull story\u201d!! Also included in the book are some glimpses and vignettes about little known aspects of some prominent politicians.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is much more for any\u00a0 reader \u2014 tales disconnected with political life, all of which makes this publication a very enjoyable and interesting read.\u00a0Anyone who wishes to refer to the legislative history of Sri Lanka during the past half century should lose no time in acquiring this lucidly written and well compiled book.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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