Manuka Wijesinghe is an author, playwright, actress and a Holistic Medical practitioner. She is also a lover of languages , living and dead. Her books are not constructions , but living testimonials of her life’s journeys made on foot, in carts, in trains, in boats and in automobiles into the heart of her island, Sri Lanka. Her books are the tales of men and women in Ceylon, later called Sri Lanka. They are about an island’s people, formed by a land surrounded by an ocean, uncertain if it is an enemy or a friend. A people, whose link language to the world was severed by self indulgent political class. A people still trying to overcome that trauma and at each attempt they try, are repressed or slaughtered by a brute state.