ජීවිතය හා මරණය
Ivan argues that the decay rotting Sri Lanka’s institutions has reached the family itself, where spouses, parents, children and grandparents live in mechanical relationships without purpose. He wrote a book to start a thoughtful conversation within families, and here records the responses: his wife read it in one sitting, a teacher who modelled his life on Aitmatov’s First Teacher called it his most useful work, a separated father bought copies for his wife and daughter hoping for reconciliation, and it sold fastest at the BMICH book fair. A book, he says, about the meaning of death as well as life.