Accha House Umma House &
Accha House & Umma House Accha House and Umma House A Mixed Childhood in the Sri Lanka of not very long ago 2nd Edition: December 2016 © Asiff Hussein For My Parents For all those wonderful childhood years ISBN: 978-955-0028-46-7 Printed by: Printel (Pvt) Ltd 21/11, 4th Lane, Araliya Uyana, Depanama, Pannipitiya Printed & Published by: Neptune Publications (Pvt) Ltd 302,Published Pahalawela by: NeptuneRoad, Pelawatte, Publications Battaramulla, (Pvt) Ltd Sri Lanka 264/2B, Heenatikumbura Road, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka For My Parents For all those wonderful childhood years INTRODUCTION Once Upon A Time Twelve Thousand Days Ago…. So let me begin the story of my childhood lived thirty three years ago, give and take a few years. That’s not a very long time ago, but much has changed since those days when life was like a song, wild and carefree like a spirit in the wind, when even the sun so high above groomed the earth while playing peek-a-boo, for, to my naïve childish imagination the spot of warm sunlight peeping through some opening to light the dancing dust particles nearer the ground, seemed as if it were beaming them all up into that blazing lamp of the sky to consume in its fiery mirth. But methinks, woe betide the one who lets his past be cast to the realms of forgetfulness, for he is what he is because of what he was. Does not one, despite the tide of time, still live in the after-glow of one’s childhood? Change will come as the years roll on, but let not it take away one’s happy memories though the years fade its colours.
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