Dinesh Weerakkody to launch ‘The Great November Revolution’ on 24 November

Dinesh Weerakkody will launch his fifth book titled The Great November Revolution on 24 November at the BMICH at 6:30 p.m.

Weerakkody says in his Preface that The November Revolution is a very inspiring account of what he saw what happened between 7 August 2014 and 9 January 2015, never told beforehand inscrutably unimaginable.

He says it highlights the courage of a handful of people. The political change that took place in January 2015 electrified the country. Three months before when former President Mahinda Rajapaksa (MR) announced early presidential elections, hardly anyone would have believed that he would be unseated so soon.

He had seemingly utilised a winning formula of engineering Sinhala Buddhist nationalism on a mass scale by referring to threats to the nation from as assortment of enemies that included the country’s own ethnic and religious minorities, the Tamil diaspora and the Western-led international community. He coupled this with giving unsustainable handouts to the people, especially at election time, or even prior to that in September 2014, the month in which the Uva Provincial Council elections were held. 

The story of this book is about how civic-minded citizens, regardless of their party colour, got together with that singleness of purpose, to bring back good governance and fair play into the administration. 

The book will be priced at Rs. 1,000 and will be available in the bookstores from the first week of December. All proceeds will be donated to the National Kidney Foundation.