The university owes its very existence to Singh, whose passing it has institutionally and conspicuously decided to overlook.

Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits has written the most complete political biography of post-colonial Sri Lanka, located in the background of two inevitable and very long shadows: hegemony-building and state-building.

If the ongoing protests diminish through fatigue and fail to monitor Wickremasinghe, Lanka’s fall into the abyss will not only be inevitable but extremely painful as well.