V. Manicavasagar

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"I went to the office of the Government Agent in Colombo in July 1973. In order to find my way to the officer I wanted to meet, I saw a board in Sinhala only. I enquired in English from the clerk who was seated behind the counter as to what it said. His reply in Sinhala was “Don’t you know how to read Sinhala?” I replied in English that I could not understand what he said. He said in Sinhala: “Go and learn Sinhala and come back.” A bystander told me what the board conveyed" - Justice Manicavasagar Vaithalingam 1974

Refugee Studies Centre of the University of Oxford, Children and Armed Conflict in Sri Lanka, Jason Hart, PHD

Personal life

Vaithialingam married Valamba, the eldest daughter of Nannithamby Selliah of Rosmead Place - son of Visva Udayar Sangarapillai Nannithamby, Broker of Mackwood & Co. & his wife Sellam, daughter of Kandarthamby Kandiah (Chattambiar) - and sister of Justice Siva Selliah, High Court Judge. [9]

They have two children: (1)Arunachala Manicavasagar, JP, who married Skandaleela - daughter of Proctor Sivakolundu Rajendran (JP, NP) and his wife Kamalambigai, youngest daughter of Stowell Elaithamby Murgesampillai - and his younger sister, (2)Nirmala Ragunanthan, who was married to the late Ragunanthan Thambimuthu, Managing Director of Raniyo (Pvt) Ltd. Both of his children continue to live in Colombo while his grandchildren reside in North America.

Notes

  1. Archived January 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Board of Directors | Commercial Banking | Commercial Bank Sri Lanka". Combank.net. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
  3. "Old Royalists Association in the United Kingdom (ORAUK)". Oldroyalists.org.uk. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
  4. "CommonLII Results - manicavasagar". Commonlii.org. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
  5. "Welcome to UTHR, Sri Lanka". Uthr.org. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
  6. "UNIVERSITY OF JAFFNA HONOURS A.M.A. AZEEZ « Dr. A.M.A. Azeez Foundation". www.azeezfoundation.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-04.
  7. "National Awards". Presidential Secretariat - Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  8. Sri Lankan Ethnic Crisis: Towards a Resolution By R. B. Herath (p.55)
  9. "Opinion". Nation.lk. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
Manicavasagar Vaithialingam
Justice Manicavasagar.JPG
Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon
Assumed office
December 17, 1964