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A rare unique novel written by a retired Administrative services officer, worth making a handbook for all Government servants…………Nimal Sedera Wadanambbi Jayasinghe’s novel “Kammale Donkaraya”(Echo of the smithery) is based on the period 1970 t0 1974. The author Jayasinghe takes up duties  as the Divisional Revenue officer (DRO) of Kothmale in 1970 .Mr. Jayasinghe relates his story under a created name Tilak Wijesinghe. The author explained to me that every sentence in this novel is true and that they are his experiences. He has replaced original names with others.  The novel begins with the DRO getting in to the jeep at Nuwara-Eliya, Government Agent’s office to proceed to Kothmale. Being a new appointee to the Administrative Service as a graduate from Peradeniya, the youthful DRO arrives in Kothmale with his young wife, a schoolteacher and two children and occupy the government quarters allocated to the DRO. He outlines the present ...