Prince Casinader

Prince Gunarasa Casinader (; 21 July 1926 – 12 December 2018) was a Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, politician and Member of Parliament.

Early life and family Casinader was born 21 July 1926 in Batticaloa in eastern Ceylon. He was the son of Charles Brown Casinader, a kachcheri mudaliyar, and Mildred. He had four brothers (Wesley, Bertram, Noble and Kingsley).

Casinader had ambitions to be a lawyer but in 1946, due to a shortage of teachers, the principal of Methodist Central College, S. V. O. Somanader, invited Casinader to be a temporary voluntary teacher at the school. They had two daughters, Praemini and Sharmini. He retired in 1986 after 40 years of teaching at Methodist Central College.

Casinader was president of the Batticaloa Citizens’ Committee and the Batticaloa Vigilance Committee. He represented Sri Lanka at Amnesty International's world conference in Amsterdam. He was vice-president of the Secondary Trained Teachers’ Union, president of the Batticaloa branch of the Ceylon Teachers’ Union and a founding member of the GTC Fifties. He was president of the Batticaloa Football Association and East Ceylon Travellers’ Federation, co-patron of the Ceylon Referees Association and vice-chairman of the Eastern Transport Board Consultative Committee. He was a member of the Eastern University of Sri Lanka's board of governors. He contributed articles for Sri Lankan newspapers and Asiaweek.

Casinader died on 12 December 2018 at his home in Batticaloa.

Electoral history + Electoral history of Prince CasinaderElectionConstituencyPartyAllianceVotesResult 1989 parliamentary Batticaloa District Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front ENDLF/EPRLF/TELO/TULF 21,959 Elected