Tell us about your childhood. “I was born in Tokyo in 1970. My dad had moved from Sri Lanka to Japan and he met my mum, who is Japanese, while he was studying for his doctorate in chemical engineering at the Tokyo University of Technology. We moved to Sri Lanka in 1977. I missed the food, but it was fun because there were things we found in Sri Lanka that weren’t in Japan.
“There was a lot of nature around us – we had huge gardens and wildlife. There were mango trees and...
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