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My parents. My dad is wearing the Ceremonial dress
for the honor bestowed on him by the Governor General in 1952

My wedding photo

Chitra, my late wife and the mother of our children
Enoka, Sidath and Sasika

Enoka, Sidath and Sasika upon graduation from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania

Enoka and Sanjeewa Recent family photo

The three at the beach in Colombo At home in Colombo

My mom at our ancestral home

My former boss and mentor
Deshabandu Bogoda Premaratne
Former Commissioner of Examinations.

With Mayor Bloomberg and Bhante Kondanna

Piccadilly Circus, London 1971 Princeton 1971 in national dress In the ferry on Seine in Paris

In London with Madhura The London Eye At Cambridge University

Opposite Buckingham Palace Louvre Museum Paris Piccadilly Circus 2007

Claude Monet Museum, Giverny, France At Sydney, Australia

At the Vatican At the Coliseum in Rome

In Florence near statue of David In a gondola in Venice

Opposite the Norwegian cruise ship 'Majesty of the Sea'
and the underwater aquarium in the 'Atlantis' during my cruise to the Bahamas.

At the convocation of Hasira and Madhura, sons of my niece Manjula
and husband Dr Linton de Silva at University College, London.

The first time I went to Buddha Gaya, I was greeted and
garlanded at the Gaya airport by Bhante Neluwe Ratanatissa,
Kiran Lama and several others.

At Buddha Gaya

Paying homage at the Vajrasana, the diamond throne. It is here on a
sandstone slab that Buddha sat when he attained enlightenment

With my Nephew Dr. Kalinga Nanayakkara, his wife Prof. Deepthi,
my nieces Kanthy Perera and Manjula de Silva. We do a floral bedeck
of the promenade where Buddha spent his third week performing walking meditation.

Offering 5000 lamps to the Sacred Bodhi Tree.

At Vaishali (Visala Mahanuwara) At Sarnath

At the Fragrant Chamber of the At Nalanda At Kusinagar where Buddha
Buddha at Jetavanaramaya attained parinibbana

With Bhante Kondanna at Lumbini, Nepal the birth place of the Buddha At the Asokan Pillar in Lumbini. The exact birth place.

At the Taj Mahal

In Bangkok, Thailand At Wat Po with Manjula and Madhura

With my friend Arthur Wedamulla (Ex-Commissioner of Exams), his wife Muriel
and my sister in Bangkok

With Siriratana Nayake thero at Ajantha India, famous for the frescos.
The steps were so steep, 4 people had to carry me in a chair.

As Systems Manager at Khaleej Information Systems in Dubai

When my sister Kusuma visited us in New York

At South St. Seaport, Manhattan

My brother-in-law Late Prof. Darrel Wijeratne's and Octavia's son
Dimuth (GM (Gulf ) Tech Access) visited us in 2007

Watching TV at Colfax Av

In the SI Ferry. Statue of Liberty in the background When Inoshi and Kishan (Dimuth's Brother)visited us

When my niece Prof Indira de Silva       When my Niece Nirupa and husband Nandalal
visited us in New York.                                         visited us in New York