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by Lalith Edrisinha

Today is the 45th anniversary of the tragic death of the country's then People's Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. Here we reproduce some articles that appeared in the Daily News and Observer on that day and after, to recapture the jovial mood in which the seriously wounded, renowned raconteur and orator bore his injuries and the incredible concern he displayed for his assassin that brought out his innate humaneness, in what has been acknowledged as his finest hour.
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