Far away from Colombo, a beautiful village in the name of Demataluwa in the district of Kurunegala was my birth place. Born in 1945 I had my early days of my child hood spent at Mahananneriya, a hamlet in Wannihathpattu in the same district, as my father, being the head master to the village school was serving there.

We were there until 1952. I had my primary education at the school where my father was the head master.