Sri Lanka, April 11 -- My name is Maximin Indrajith Perera, an AssociatePhysician, working in England, with three daughters. My wife also works for the National Health Service. Throughout my life, I have found myself surprising. As a young boy in the town of Katuneriya, I would never have thought I would be where I am now.

So, let's start from the beginning.

Elizabeth, a nurse, and Joseph, a police officer were living in Colombo, Kalubowila, when they had me, their first child, in 1968. But moving away from Colombo the year after, it was Katuneriya that I called home, moving to live with my grandparents and aunt Annie. This was where I grew up, in a small house, with a smallholding in the garden housing chickens from which we would get ...