Sri Lanka, Jan. 28 -- Godfrey, now in his late 90s, has written his memoirs, Chaos and Pattern, in three volumes running into over 1,000 pages. The first volume deals with his early life at home and in school, mainly in a rural setting, his university life, and marriage to Bella. The second volume is concerned with his career in the Ceylon Civil Service from 1950 to 1972. The third volume deals with the founding of the Marga Institute and his emergence as a leading Asian intellectual. At this time, he was associated with various UN agencies in developing social and economic policies. At the end was his key role in setting up the Gamani Corea Foundation.

He was born in 1926 to a rural, middle-class bilingual (English and Sinhalese) family...