An area in my life that gave me immense pleasure and gave me an opportunity for innocent childhood dreams.

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 …was born in Mount Lavinia by the sea into the salt wind, sea sounds and rumbling steam engines. My father was an Advocate who made his family nest at Beach Road in a house procured for a princely rent of Forty rupees per month in 1938. Born a weak child with a bleak physical future the weather fortunes of the oceans and monsoonal rains and winds took its toll by way of constant illness, added by chronic Tonsillitis. This however built…

By Sunil Wanigatunga