LLRC member Prof. Jiffry passes away

It is rather strange that the President appoints members who are nearly dead.
There are strong rumors that even the head of LLRC is ill although he aspires to be the next Chief Justice.
To fulfil that aspiration C R De Silva (Bulla), as he was known at Royal College does his loyal service to the President.

LLRC member Prof. Jiffry passes away

Professor M. T. M. Jiffry, one of the eight member- Lesson and Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) passed away Friday morning after a brief illness in Colombo. His burial took place Friday evening at Dehiwala Jummah Mosque. Born in Matara, Jiffry was the Professor of the Medical Faculty in Sri Jayewardenepura University.

Professor M. T. M. Jiffry, one of the eight member- Lesson and Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) passed away Friday morning after a brief illness in Colombo. His burial took place Friday evening at Dehiwala Jummah Mosque. Born in Matara, Jiffry was the Professor of the Medical Faculty in Sri Jayewardenepura University.

LLRC, appointed by Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse with C.R.De Silva as Chairman has been holding its sittings in Colombo and is scheduled to hold such sittings in Jaffna and Kilinochchi, sources said.

Daily News June 21, 2009:
This demonstrates Prof. M T M Jiffry's loyalty to the President.

A very little is known about artistic pursuits of Prof. M.T.M Jiffry who is a teacher in the Department of Physiology and currently is the Vice Chairman of the University Grants Commission. However, he is also an accomplished artist.
He had to suppress his desire for drawing although he drew for the first time at the age of six. Prof. Jiffry held his first exhibition of paintings at the Main Library of the University of Peradeniya.
A significant characteristic of Prof. Jiffy’s diction of painting is the use of bright colours and his keen eye for detail depiction from diverse perspectives. At times, his paintings are multi-layered in terms of diverse readings that emanate from them. They were surely not mere drawing of every-day objects of life but inspired expression of the extremely sensitive artist in Prof. Jiffry. He draws inspiration from diverse sources such as nature, cultural pageants and folk dances like Kavadi.
For instance, the painting of Kavadi dancers depicts not only the quintessential characteristic ritualistic dance done to pay homage to the god but also the dancers’s typified movements, special postures of the performers to the beatings of the drums. Kavadi dance is a popular feature in many cultural pageants such as the Kandy Perahera and Perahera in Kataragama. For this painting, bright colours red, blue and green have been used. A dancer carries a peacock’s feather which is associated with God Kataragama.
Prof. Jiffry’s forte seems to be in the abstract paintings. For instance painting such as Foliage, Acrobatics and Concentration shows strikingly unique style of painting and line architecture. Some of these abstract features can also been seen in his portraits and paintings on nature.
This has added a unique artist’s perspective to each and every painting making them distinguishable from mere recreations of every day objects. For the image, simple brush strokes have been used with different degree of shades of green to create a mess of foliage.
Prof.Jiffry’s success in paintings is a testimony to the multi-talented academics in Sri Lanka. Specially, he draws for sheer pleasure and his expressions, definitely, emerge from the bottom of his heart.