Chamal rajapaksa biography of rory

By Jayashika Padmasiri –

If the “Mahawanshaya” can be considered as the biography of the ancient Sri Lanka, then certainly the latest ‘vanity publication’ in Sri Lanka “Chamal Rajapaksa” written by Punya de Silva (and sold for Rs.2000), can certainly be considered as Chamal Rajapaksa’s biography.

It is a universally acknowledged fact that history is narrated and repeated in versions. However when considering history we must not forget that even ‘Mahawanshaya’ is also a version of history”: which boldly speaks the invisible worlds‘one point of view’.

So with that cleared out from the picture, and getting the most obvious fact which is the writer sucking up big-time to please the main character or his family in the book (which in simple terms in Sinhalese is called as ‘kadde yamma’ these days) out of the way, the book “Chamal Rajapaksa” can be called as an informative book which is very well researched, and a book which not only relates a lot of