{"id":212361,"date":"2020-08-06T00:31:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T19:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=212361"},"modified":"2020-08-08T23:41:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T18:11:33","slug":"a-tribute-to-ehambaram-vivehanandan-a-socialist-until-his-last-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-tribute-to-ehambaram-vivehanandan-a-socialist-until-his-last-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute To Ehambaram Vivehanandan: A Socialist Until His Last Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>By <a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sivaguru+Ganesan\">Sivaguru Ganesan<\/a> &#8211;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Comrade E. Vivehanandan passed away on 03 August 2020. He was not well for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Ehanbaram Vivehanandan was born in 1935, and\u00a0had his early education at the Kokuvil Hindu College, Jaffna. Right from his Senior Secondary School years, he was attracted to politics and became a full time political activist of the Lanka\u00a0Sama Samaja Party(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=LSSP\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">LSSP<\/span><\/a>) from 1954 till 1960.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_212364\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E.-Vivehanandan-LSSP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212364\" class=\"size-full wp-image-212364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E.-Vivehanandan-LSSP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E.-Vivehanandan-LSSP.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E.-Vivehanandan-LSSP-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E.-Vivehanandan-LSSP-768x584.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-212364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">E. Vivehanandan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Though mostly staying within the Jaffna Peninsula, he began to develop important connections to national leaders of the LSSP. During this period, he also spared no efforts to delve into basic philosophical, political, and social issues affecting the ordinary populations globally, including the vast writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky. Early in his life, he developed the ability to\u00a0critically engage in examining complex issues, including logic and dialectics. Vive was a thorough intellectual who would pursue knowledge in any field.<\/p>\n<p>Along with his Comrade the late R. Panudevan, they shared in the leadership responsibilities of the local LSSP. In those years in Sri Lanka, the Marxist movement enticed many of its younger recruits\u00a0to sacrifice their student or professional paths and engage in full time politics in the glorious pursuit of a Socialist Society.\u00a0Vive stood out amongst these younger recruits.\u00a0Along with Panudevan, they were identified as a leading center of Marxist learning in the Peninsula. In my student days, I tried to follow them whenever they were engaged for long hours in dissecting and examining the contents of the writings of the great\u00a0Marxists and Leninists.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to active studies, Vive entered the Law College in 1962, and passed out in 1967.\u00a0 He was thereafter active as an Advocate of the High Court. The Sri Lankan legal profession felicitated him in 2018. on his completion of 50 years of service to the local Bar. During this period, he also identified himself as a strong defender of democratic practices in\u00a0the country. In 2012, \u00a0as a leading member of the Lawyers Collective , under the leadership of J.C. Weliamuna and others, he fought to restore the position of the Chief Justice Dr (Mrs) Shirani Bandaranayake, dismissed by the Rajapaksa regime in power then on frivolous grounds. When Panudevan, a respected Graduate Teacher, was dismissed from St Johns College, Jaffna, in the 1970s, Vivehanandan\u00a0appeared\u00a0as his counsel and won reinstatement for Panudevan.<\/p>\n<p>Though inactive in politics during different periods, Vive in his own words, \u201cnever left his Socialist politics to join another party\u201d in his later life. He was a member of the LSSP (Majority Group) and a member of the United Left Front at the time of his death. Vivehananadan made an important contribution towards making a change in Government possible in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Vivehanandan married into a traditional Islamic family, and after visiting him in the Royal Hospital in his last days, and later in the funeral house, it was abundantly clear to me that he was held in great affection and respect by his wife, his four daughters, and his entire family. Three of his daughters are married. In his last days, I was moved to see that most of the time, he was surrounded by his entire family including his five grandchildren. It was clear to me that Vive had enjoyed great marital blessings that motivated his professional work. Equally, he had given everything he possessed\u00a0to his family. Vive claimed that he had a worldly outlook on race\u00a0and religion, had no religious affiliation as such, yet had developed a deeper understanding of Islam, the religion of his wife and in-laws. This likely contributed to his harmonious blending with his wife\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>Viveganandan was buried\u00a0 on August 3, within the cemetery of the Grand Mosque, Kalubovila Road, Dehiwela, with full Islamic prayers and funeral rites.<\/p>\n<p>May his soul rest in peace!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":212364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Tribute To Ehambaram Vivehanandan: A Socialist Until His Last Breath - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-tribute-to-ehambaram-vivehanandan-a-socialist-until-his-last-breath\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Tribute To Ehambaram Vivehanandan: A Socialist Until His Last Breath - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-tribute-to-ehambaram-vivehanandan-a-socialist-until-his-last-breath\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-05T19:01:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-08-08T18:11:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E.-Vivehanandan-LSSP.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"684\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sivaguru Ganesan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sivaguru Ganesan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-tribute-to-ehambaram-vivehanandan-a-socialist-until-his-last-breath\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-tribute-to-ehambaram-vivehanandan-a-socialist-until-his-last-breath\/\",\"name\":\"A Tribute To Ehambaram Vivehanandan: A Socialist Until His Last Breath - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-tribute-to-ehambaram-vivehanandan-a-socialist-until-his-last-breath\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-tribute-to-ehambaram-vivehanandan-a-socialist-until-his-last-breath\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E.-Vivehanandan-LSSP.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-05T19:01:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-08-08T18:11:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1fc3544e6c636182184f3c6ba7cb19fe\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-tribute-to-ehambaram-vivehanandan-a-socialist-until-his-last-breath\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-tribute-to-ehambaram-vivehanandan-a-socialist-until-his-last-breath\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-tribute-to-ehambaram-vivehanandan-a-socialist-until-his-last-breath\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E.-Vivehanandan-LSSP.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E.-Vivehanandan-LSSP.jpg\",\"width\":900,\"height\":684,\"caption\":\"E. 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