For sometimes it has been clear that there is a need for a more up to date account of the reasons for making Sinhala the state language. This is a brief but compelling account. The telescope of national and geopolitical history unfolded in the works gives you the valuable opportunity to better understand the, established colonial cultural status-quo shattering, political movements of the 1950s; their motives and the foresight of the late leaders who were supported by masses of people to make those changes.