Dear Sean,

Oops! Being a family guy myself I understand your family's concern! As for the violence in Colombo. It's been like that for sometime and the terrorists are very specific with their targets! I can promise you that no foreigner has died due to theses activities. However, I quite comprehend the gravity of it. Peradenya is far away and safe from the commercial capital (Colombo). Life is pretty peaceful here.

We have planned it for the first week of May (2008) and if that time frame is not ok to your family or if they feel uncomfortable with your traveling to Sri Lanka I won't try to convince you. However, if it's about the situation in Colombo, as I have explained there's nothing for you to worry. However, I will not try to convince you against your wish. All I can tell you is that we have scientists traveling in and out with a monotonous regularity and there had been no casualties.

Please let me know your thoughts regarding this matter as soon as possible so that we can work ourselves out of this situation! Thanks for all your concern!

Regards!

Rohitha

PS. I'm delighted about you becoming a father again! I will be getting married on the last week of May 2008.
