Hemamal Jayawardena
When I dropped in recently at the Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Colombo to get some guidance on some forensic aspects of child abuse, a subject on which the professor is a pioneering expert, I noticed a book on his table on a subject that had nothing to do with forensic medicine. It was titled, “Sathasivam of Ceylon – the Batting Legend”.
This interested me and I went over a few pages. It took me a while to realise that it was Professor Fernando who had authored the book, to my surprise. It was unusual as the book was not on medicine or a medically related subject as he usually writes. It was on cricket! More accurately, about a cricketer. As we spoke more, I recalled reading a piece he had written long ago on our ace wicket keeper, Kaluwitharana to the newspaper as well and realised that Professor is a keen cricket fan. This led to the following interview,which I thought will be of interest to all our readers.