Sagarika pens childhood memories

Childhood is known as the wonder years of a person's life. These memories not only shape a person's career and personality but also are some of the most cherished times of any individual. That is why we tend to freeze the emotions and scenes of such incidents by penning them in diaries and journals.

Writing such incidents in a diary is common but launching a book of memories is rare. Silumina Deputy Features Editor Sagarika Dissanayake had taken on this endeavour via Punchi Kale Mang.

Ven Pallegama Sirinivasa Maha Thera and Eminence Most. Rev. Dr. Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith are two figures who have stood as examples to the society. People know about their religious life but their childhood has not been in focus for so long.

Jayalath Manoratne and Tony Ranasinghe are two veterans in the entertainment scene. Their productions are well loved by the public but their childhood memories are also equally entertaining.

Even the Vedda chief Uru Varge Vannilaththo have enthralling childhood stories to tell.

Punchi Kale Mang relates the childhood stories of many respected and well loved religious, art, science, politics etc public figures.

The stories had been carried out as a series in the Silumina newspaper. The book comes as a Surasa Publication and will be available at the Book Fair.