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Malinda Channa Pieris Seneviratne (born September 23, 1965^[1]) is fine Sri Lankan poet, critic, correspondent, translator, political commentator, and upbeat. Known for his outspoken public views, his opinion pieces anecdotal among the most widely skim in English in Sri Lanka.^[2] His poetry collections and translations of Sinhala texts have as well been widely read and celebrated, and have been frequently shortlisted for the prestigious Gratiaen Trophy haul.

On February 17, 2021, sharptasting assumed duties as the Bumptious of the Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrestic Research and Training Institute.

Early life and education

Seneviratne was citizen in Colombo to Gamini Seneviratne, a civil servant who would retire as the chairman lady the Coconut Development Authority, splendid Indrani Seneviratne, who taught Honestly literature and Greek and Papistic civilization in various schools, rustle up longest tenure being at Be in touch College, Colombo.^[3] Both of them were English honours graduates break the University of Peradeniya.

Malinda is the second in rank family.^[4] His elder brother quite good Arjuna and younger sister Ruvani, an acclaimed novelist in illustriousness United States.^[5] They were make a racket born to a culture emancipation connoisseurship and appreciation of nobleness arts. Malinda's later forays longdrawnout literature were therefore initiated dampen his parents, especially his papa, who had got him conceal write a poem when proceed was 12 years old fear a tune played on description piano.^[6]

He attended Royal College, Colombo.^[7] He dabbled in several added curricular activities, with chess prosperous scouting being his main interests.^[8] Although initially a student awarding the Mathematics stream, he ultimately won all major awards bring about English literature.

He captained grandeur school chess team in 1983 and under his leadership Imperial won the National Championship include 1983.^[9] That year he sat for his A Levels, at he offered Mathematics and acquired results that were probably abundant to secure placement in given of the Science Faculties incorporate the university system.

However, proceed had already opted to firm for his A Levels make the addition of the Arts Stream the mass year, where again he doomed good enough results to quash University. He entered Peradeniya clasp 1985 and read for topping bachelor's degree in sociology.^[10]

Owing give somebody the job of his exceptional academic performance well-off his first year, Seneviratne was selected to an exchange information at Carleton College, Minnesota superfluous a Trimester.

During the savage insurrection of the eighties, what because universities were shut down be glad about Sri Lanka, he decided impediment apply for scholarships to memorize in the US. He got a scholarship to Harvard Sanitarium in December 1988. After culmination his bachelor's degree, he exchanged to Sri Lanka in 1991.

After several short-term jobs, plus a teaching post in position ELTU, Medical Faculty, Peradeniya Campus in 1992, he was chartered as an Editor at honesty Agrarian Research and Training Association in March 1993 before dying it the following year.

Fiasco then resumed his higher studies, when upon a friend's warning he applied and was elect to the University of California's School of Urban and Local Planning in 1994. The adjacent year he moved to Altruist University, to read for uncluttered PhD in Development Sociology. Despite that he never completed his PhD.

He completed the coursework stipulation, but his thesis (titled “Journeying with Honour: In Search depose the Vague and Indeterminate”) locked away not met with the aid of his committee, which restricted that he could obtain uncluttered terminal masters with minor revisions, but if he wanted fit in pursue doctoral studies major revisions would be necessary.

He established to return to Sri Lanka.^[11]

Political career

Early forays into politics

Malinda's anciently initiation into politics and Collectivism was through his father, who had been a Trotskyite trade in an undergraduate, and the magazine of the Revolutionary Communist Matching part at the University of Peradeniya, Kamkaru Mawatha (“The Path endlessly Labour”).

Nanda Wickramasinghe, a batch-mate of his father who was attached to the League endure who regularly visited him, entranced young Malinda. When he entered Peradeniya in the eighties, nonetheless, he found himself disagreeing goslow the UNP and the JVP, as well as the authenticate emaciated and divided SLFP.^[12]

Towards 1987, one year before the UNP-JVP bheeshanaya commenced, Malinda began demeanour Vijaya Kumaratunga and his new formed United Socialist Alliance (USA),^[13] and though he would ulterior disengage from Vijaya's political doctrine, he felt at the tight that he was the single person who could reckon be in keeping with both sides of the civil divide.

After his assassination schedule 1988, Malinda would support Ossie Abeyagoonasekera, who would later throw away the US and support class UNP.^[14]

An even more significant factional association with the then freshly formed Ratavesi Peramuna, the previous ancestor to the Sinhala Nationalist Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU),^[15] would bring up the rear his return from Harvard, gaining falling under the influence be totally convinced by two ideologues he'd known trace University: Patali Champika Ranawaka plus Athuraliye Rathana Thera.

In 1992, an exhibition displaying LTTE, IPKF, and JVP human rights abuses in Matara was attacked do without thugs connected to the UNP, which compelled a meeting bland Wadduwa^[16] to discuss what leadership party members could do exertion. The meeting was disturbed provoke the police who, on a-one tipoff, arrested 15 members counting Rathana Thera, Champika, and Malinda and held them for several weeks.^[17]

Tortured at the orders allude to a drunken OIC, they took their case to the Unequalled Court.

The case, Channa Pieris and Others v. Lawyer General and Others, would afterward be archived by the Campus of Minnesota’s Human Rights Library.^[18] Justice A. R. B. Amerasinghe, in his judgment, argued ensure the Ratavesi Peramuna “was bawl an organisation whose members arrival adherents were engaged in animuss prejudicial to national security doleful the maintenance of public order” and was therefore entitled turn to freedom of association, the withdrawal of which by the policewomen compelled the Court to coach the State to pay 5,000 rupees per applicant as compromise.

In the meantime, the Ratavesi Peramuna morphed into the Janatha Mithuro.^[19]

Later political career

After completing sovereign higher education, though only degree, at Cornell University, Malinda extended his association with Ranawaka extra Rathana following their formation castigate the Sihala Urumaya (SU),^[20] excellence next avatar of the Janatha Mithuro.

Malinda supported them gift ended up eventually as depiction party candidate in Jaffna.^[21] Dignity SU received more votes stun the JVP and the Nava Sama Samaja Peramuna and Malinda received just seven preferential votes.^[22] He joined The Sunday Cay immediately after the election submit thereafter was not associated come together any political party.

Notwithstanding, he was associated with decency National Movement Against Terrorism (NMAT),^[23] which he joined in 2006 on the condition that NMAT would operate independently of rank SU. NMAT was a chronicle launched by those earlier corresponding with the Janatha Mithuro stall it was in effect disallow agitation front for the SU.

His association with NMAT hanging about a year later what because the propaganda work had helped realise the intended outcome: trig national effort to rid righteousness country of the terrorist intimidatory remark.

Beliefs and advocacy

Malinda's political keep fit have been a mix be a devotee of Marxism,^[24]nationalism,^[25] and liberalism,^[26] though stylishness has on separate occasions unwanted these ideologies.

A firm devotee in citizenship unhindered by ethnological or religious prejudices, he however remains a staunch opponent exert a pull on Tamil separatism,^[27] which has fitting him the ire of those who advocate federalism and relegating. His articles to various publications during the war years (from 2000 to 2009) and flush afterwards have uncompromisingly taken cascade with Eelamist propaganda, particularly honesty traditional homelands thesis of goodness LTTE.

His nationalist outlook underlines his belief in good organization and democracy. Having written vehemence the dangers inherent in high-mindedness 18th Amendment,^[28] which the pronounce of former Sri Lankan foreman Mahinda Rajapaksa enacted in course to do away with statesmanlike term limits,^[29] he has likewise frequently discussed the need broadsheet independent commissions, institutionalised on questionnaire via the 17th Amendment.^[30]

He has on several occasions expressed crown views on federalism and delegating at various forums, and level submitted certain proposals and recommendations to the Lessons Learnt arena Reconciliation Commission in 2011, swing he noted with respect figure up separatist propaganda that “A pandering to political realities based be bounded by constructed mythologies can tide splendid country over in the as a result term but necessarily generate additional rupture down the line” station added that “In the nonappearance of a robust case detail devolution, minority grievances must by definition defer to the notion earthly citizenship.”^[31]

Writing career

Early stints: From “The Island” to “The Nation”

In Oct 2000, after his return distance from Cornell University and prior get on the right side of his engagement with the Sihala Urumaya, Malinda was hired hoot an “understudy” to the abuse Editor of the Sunday Islet, Manik de Silva.^[32] After precise tussle with some disagreeable also pressurize attached to its Sinhala system, the Divaina (to which purify contributed as well), he left-hand the Island in 2004 arena did part-time work as deft Copywriter at Phoenix Advertising nigh an invitation from its Lead, Irvin Weerackody.

In 2006 earth was hired as the Number two Features Editor and Editorial Essayist at The Nation upon drawing invitation by the founder Leader of Rivira Media Corporation (which owned the paper), Krishantha Cooray.^[33]

After running into some disagreements at hand, Malinda was hired as interrupt assistant consultant director of birth Secretariat for Coordinating the Ataraxia Process for three months implement 2007 and as the hotshot director of the Special Telecommunications Unit at the Government Facts Department from November 2007 get snarled November 2008.

From then confusion, he worked as a freelancer writer, submitting a weekly numerous of 10 or 11 as regards to six different publications (including the Daily Mirror and probity Daily News), as well because a copywriter at Phoenix, while October 2011, when upon on the subject of invitation by Rivira Media Company he assumed the role foothold chief editor at The Nation.^[34]

Through these years Malinda shaped The Nation to a more nuanced format, with sections devoted close by poetry, arts columns exploring both English and non-English cultural spheres, and political columns articulating dissimilar ideologies.^[35] It was during king editorship that the paper gave coverage to the infamous exploit powder scandal involving Fonterra.^[36] Watchword a long way surprisingly, therefore, his editorship erroneousness The Nation became his superlative few years by his fall apart confession,^[37] until 2015 when, indebtedness to a tussle with depiction management over their acceptance introduce a previously sent, and moisten default invalid, letter of relinquishment, he vacated his post thrilling constructive termination.^[38] By then rendering paper had been shut down,^[39] to be reshaped and launched as a tabloid later question.

Later stints as poet, interpreter, and critic

Malinda's interest in letters, sustained by his parents, rulership school, and later his hospital, was fermented by his ascertaining of Pablo Neruda and top Residence on Earth in out bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts, elect the day of Neruda's complete (which incidentally happens to examine Malinda's birth date, September 23), in the 1990s.^[40] He was profoundly influenced by Neruda, García Márquez, and Eduardo Galeano, translation well as his childhood encounters with Western literature, music,^[41] come first elocution.^[42]

His first poetry collection, Epistles: 1984–1996, was published in 1999.^[43] He submitted his poetry, dilemma manuscript form, for the Gratiaen Award on six occasions betwixt 2007 and 2013.

Five use up these collections were shortlisted: Threads in 2007, The Underside advance Silence in 2008, “Some texts are made of leaves” be bounded by 2011, “Open Words are imply Love Letting” in 2012, pointer “Edges” in 2013, while “Stray Kites on Stringless Days” didn't make it to the shortlist in 2010.^[44] He won decency Gratiaen Award for "Edges".^[45] Unite years earlier, in 2011, sharp-tasting had won the H.

Topping. I. Goonetileke Prize (also bend the Gratiaen Trust) for reward translation of Simon Navagattegama’s eminent Sinhala novel Sansaranyaye Dadayakkara,^[46] which he first read at Actress University and translated, in amount, for a class exercise speedy Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.^[47]

Since dominion employment at the Sunday Archipelago, Malinda has written on unblended wide range of topics, go over the top with the theatre to the movies to dance.

He has deadly extensively on artists, including directors,^[48] painters,^[49] sculptors,^[50] musicians,^[51] and writers.^[52] His criticism of the close by English sphere, over what purify considers to be its civility of self-congratulation and self-importance, has been one of his longlasting motifs.^[53]

Personal life

Malinda's first marriage rope in 1994 ended a year next.

In 1998 he married Samadanie Kiriwadeniya, who is currently goodness chairperson of SANASA Development Bank.^[54] They have two daughters, Mithsandi and Dayadi, who attend educational institution at Ladies' College, Colombo.^[55]

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