Gamini salgado biography

Wretched of the Earth

Sri Lanka’s domination under colonialism for centuries crippled the whole nation at an unprecedented level and the subsequent effects were epoch-making.

In the words of Frantz Fanon, who produced his canonical text “Wretched of the Earth, “ Perhaps we haven’t sufficiently demonstrated that colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native’s brain of all form and content.

By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures, and destroys it”. Fanon’s narration makes sense regarding all the colonially oppressed societies with the twisted anomalies inherited from their colonial masters.

In the present era, when the geopolitical currents are shifting from West to East by putting Asia on the pedestal, perhaps it would be timely to rethink certain individuals in the past who intellectually conquered the