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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Saturday, March 1, 2014
When a dynasty read the future and It takes a Kumaratunga to pack up and quit
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the former President of Sri Lanka,
has among her photographs a collector’s item taken when she was an
11-year-old girl. Crowded into the frame are no less than five South
Asian Prime Ministers who served at different times over five decades in
the 20th Century: her father S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, mother Sirimavo
Bandaranaike, herself (she was Prime Minister before she went on to win
the presidential election in 1994), Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.
There might have been six Prime Ministers in that photograph had Mrs.
Gandhi taken her son Rajiv along on that visit to Colombo in 1956.
