{"id":9647,"date":"2012-08-16T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T20:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=9647"},"modified":"2012-08-16T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T02:23:11","slug":"evans-cooray-passes-away-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=9647","title":{"rendered":"Evans Cooray Passes away in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9649\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/EC81612.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9649\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/EC81612.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"EC81612\" width=\"180\" height=\"187\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9649\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evans Gunalal Cooray<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>E<\/strong>vans Gunalal Cooray, former press secretary to the late President Ranasinghe Premadasa, passed away yesterday after a protracted illness in London.<\/p>\n<p>Born on February 13, 1936, Cooray served as an efficient press secretary to several ministries under both UNP and SLFP governments.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHe served as press secretary to Premadasa for 28 years, as the latter rose from Minister of Local Government to Prime Minister and finally to Executive President. Cooray played a key role in the Premadasa Administration and was considered a highly efficient public servant.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2010, Cooray published an autobiographical memoir of his long service with President Premadasa, entitled Janasetha Sedhu Janapathi Sevane or \u2018in the shadow of a people\u2019s president\u2019, which is considered to be an important piece of political literature in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Evans Cooray functioned as a senior journalist at several English and Sinhala newspapers in the country before embarking on a career in government service.<\/p>\n<p>Cooray is survived by his wife Nanda, sons Rasantha, Sampath and daughter Sadani.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton9647\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D9647&amp;text=Evans%20Cooray%20Passes%20away%20in%20London&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evans Gunalal Cooray, former press secretary to the late President Ranasinghe Premadasa, passed away yesterday after a protracted illness in London. Born on February 13, 1936, Cooray served as an efficient press secretary to several ministries under both UNP and SLFP governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9650,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647\/revisions\/9650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}