Bicycle
March 12, 2009 I was talking to my best friend recently about what we had in our families when we were young. In Sri Lanka, having your own car is still considered a luxury. Twenty years ago, it was even more a luxury. I was talking to my best...
Child’s common sense reponse to war “complication”
5 January 2009 My son, Sean, turned 5 on the 30 December 2008. On the 31 December 2008, I was watching a program on Al Jazeera International entitled Revisiting My Lai Massacre. I have heard about My Lai Massacre but this was the first time I was watching a...
My beginnings
1 January 2009 My story begins in Sri Lanka. I grew up in the sub-urbs of Colombo. I was born in Kolonnawa and, according my some photographic memories and my mother and father, we lived briefly in Athurugiriya. Now, according to my parents, this was the first place they...
Welcome to Mathaka Potha, a book of memory.
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