Mr.Somasiri Wickramasinghe entered journalism through the guidance of the Ven'ble Udakandewela Sri Saranankera Thera, recipient of the Lenin Peace Award and foremost colossus in the In International Socialist Movement as well as in the Indian Freedom Struggle whom The writer came to know when ha was a student at the Nalanda College, Minuwangoda at the beginning of the sixties having involved himself in the "Navalokaya", a magazine published at that time under the hand of the ven'ble There.