Career
He was arrested following the aborted insurrection of 1971 and was imprisoned by the courts. Later he was released with other JVP rebels on an unconditional pardon by the newly appointed Jayawardena Regime in late 1970s. He remains one of Sri Lanka"s most controversial commentators on ethnic conflict and human rights.
He worked with Doctor Neelan Tiruchelvam in drafting the model constitution in 1999.
He is a former Chairman of the Sri Lanka Foundation, Colombo. He continues to write prolifically in Sinhala and English.