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| | Today is the 112th Birth Anniversary of Martin Wickramasinghe |
 | | Koggala was Wickramasinghe's universe, the 'slice of life presented for the serene joy and emotion of the common people', the postscript with which he concludes Gamperaliya. |
 | | All is observed with no sense of bitterness; instead, there is an undertone of wry humour reminiscent of the best of Narayan, at once subtly and immensely entertaining. |
 | | Wickramasinghe's description of how, at more than fifty years old, he returned to the village where, as a little boy, he had roamed so freely, is a moving piece of writing where nostalgia is always tempered with reason, and sentiment never allowed to become sentimentality. |
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