Introducing Uditha Devapriya: Researcher, Writer, Activist-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis During a recent visit to Sri Lanka, I was visited by Uditha Devapriya on a specific research quest. Readers of Sri Lankan newspapers will be aware of his writings on several political topics. But it is only this month that I became fully aware of his weighty background in scholarly affairs and the full range of his attainments in the past 10-13 years. I am delighted to tell the world that Uditha has teamed up with Uthpala Wijesuriya, a bright young man from Royal College in Colombo, to embark on a research project entitled “Another Time, Another World. A Voyage Down Memory Lane. Nay more: the two are about to embark on an oral history project inspired by the efforts on these lines in the 1960s by a bloke educated at Peradeniya and Oxford Universities. These projects can be dwelt on ...