An Unlikely Collaboration

“Terry Pratchett and I met in February 1985, in a Chinese restaurant. I was a young journalist. He was a former journalist and Electricity Board PR, and a writer who had just published his second Discworld novel. I was the first journalist who had ever interviewed him. I remember we made each other laugh a lot. We laughed at the same things. We became friends. It was easy.“

– Neil Gaiman

Not too long ago, Suresh de Silva rang me up. Suresh is the lyricist and vocalist of Stigmata, Sri Lanka’s...