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Senapala Samarasekera, a Gentleman Politician-by Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Source:Dailynews No angels today, though again I shall write about transitions, and the passing of an angelic personality, my father’s favourite cousin. I went down to condole with my cousins last Friday, and then got back after a night in Getamanna for the funeral on Saturday afternoon. But I left before the final rites, for the speeches took a long time, and I needed to get back to Colombo by nightfall. I had a few minutes alone though by the coffin, and reflected on how time passed and the older generation had now slipped away almost entirely, and we were now the aged. But it is not personal reflections that I will engage in here, but political ones, roused in that the speech during which I slipped away was by Ramesh Pathirana whose father Richard won the Akmeemana seat in the bye-election ...