DBS Jeyaraj: The Man Who Lifted the Cadjan Curtain
By Vijitha Yapa An Unlikely Recruit Dressed in a well-ironed white shirt — unusual for a journalist — the man standing in front of me to be interviewed was a scribe working for the Tamil newspaper Veerakesari. D.B.S. Jeyaraj was a friend of our Features Editor, Ajith Samaranayake, and had come for an interview to join The Island newspaper in 1981. I was a bit sceptical, as I soon found out that he had never worked for an English-language newspaper. But since Ajith was a good, responsible jour
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