Dear Editor,
(February 08, Paris, Sri Lanka Guardian) I write with reference to a confusion of identity in a recent article featured on your website by I.S. Senguttuvan entitled 'To Survive Sri Lanka Must Re-invent Itself '.
In the segment on Health he quotes a revealing and pathos-laden passage from a writer he describes as "the daughter of a well known political analyst and now Ambassador".
His excerpt is from the article carried on your website (among other publications) on the 5th anniversary of the death of Mrs. Chandra de Silva, Sri Lanka's leading Nursing educationist, authored by one of her twin daughters, Ms. Sanja De Silva Jayatilleka.
In point of fact, Sanja De Silva Jayatilleka is not my daughter, but my wife.
To put it slightly differently, I am married to the late Mrs Chandra de Silva's daughter, Sanja (who appears next to me in the photograph of the Independence day event in Paris a few days ago, which you have generously featured on your website).
Thank you.
Dr Dayan Jayatilleka
SENGUTTUVAN REGRETS ERROR
I.S. Senguttuvan extends to Dr. Dayan Jayatilake and his wife profound regrets for the typographical error in the article referred to yesterday - now clarified.
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