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T. B. Ilangaratne: Celebrating Kandyan middle-class life
Centre piece by Ajith Samaranayake
Watching Lakshman Wijesekera's tele-drama Vilambitha inspired by T.
B. Ilangaratne's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name one is struck once again by Ilangaratne's peculiar power as a writer.
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For if there was one single national politician who was devoted to creative writing it was Tikiri Banda Ilangaratne.
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In a long political career spanning over four decades he was a powerful Cabinet Minister in three successive Bandaranaike Governments rising to be Acting Prime Minister on occasion but he never abandoned his passion for literature.
He wrote a crop of novels, wrote, directed and acted in stage plays while some of his novels were made into films, most notably Tilaka Saha Tilaka and Nedeyo and into the tele-drama Ambayahaluwo.
Ilangaratne was always good to spin a story simply but evocatively told and his novels appealed to a cross-section of t