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"Book describes the history of Sri Lanka from the time of birth of Lord Buddha and today's politics. Sri Lanka is formally known as Ceylon. Sri Lanka has gone through 70 years of unrest as a result of cultural divisions. The book describes the political events of past 70 years in Sri Lanka that resulted in major violence and deaths among the groups and ultimately running into a state of financial Bankruptcy. Sri Lanka is a good example and should be an eye opener for other countries. Sri Lanka is a plural society country with Sinhala speaking Buddhist people in 70% majority. One person one vote political system always allowed a certain class of people to be in power. Sinhala Buddhism Supremacy became the core agenda for the successive governments since 1948; motivated by violent Sinhala Buddhist clergy class who were antidemocratic, anti pluralist and aspire to convert Sri Lanka into a homogenized singular nation with one religion, one culture, and one race all wrapped around politicized Sinhala Buddhism. We see such problems in several other non-homogeneous countries such as in India, Malaysia including USA where governance is based on a system of ""one vote one person"". One can see the trend in US with growing different groups and agendas. Western Democracy principal is based on one person one vote always results in majority group suppressing the rights of the minority groups. Minority rights ignored. Votes become a tradeable commodity; wealthy and politically connected groups take advantage buying votes and get into power."

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Subramaniam E Haran is from Jaffna, Sri Lanka. His father was a lawyer and son of a farmer studied at Alumnae of Victoria Institute of KL, Malaysia and University College, Colombo, Sri Lanka; and his mother ran the house and assisted father in his legal work. She is from CMS Ladies College, Colombo, and Class of 1939. Haran belongs to the class of 1962 at St. John's College before entering the University of Ceylon, Colombo faculty to study Bachelor of Science degree. He completed Bachelor and Master Degrees in chemical engineering in United Kingdom, and a Masters Business Finance Degree in United States of America. He is also licensed professional engineer.His professional working experience involves dealing with planning, design development of oil and chemical process plants and business Support in planning, engineering applications of digital telecommunication and wireless technologies in the USA. He is part of a pioneering AT&T Bell Laboratory and Lucent Technologies teams that introduced a pioneer mobile wireless network to Sri Lanka and deployed CDMA wireless network throughout India.After retiring, he provides consulting services in chemical engineering and technologies to manufacturing, designs, energy, environment and process safety. He is interested in agriculture and paddy cultivations in Sri Lanka.He is a founding member and a former president of a cultural and humanitarian Tamil ethnic organization in the US and actively served for over 30 years in the welfare of the Tamils in the USA and in Sri Lanka.

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