We are sad to inform readers of the death of one of the creative geniuses of the island of Sri Lanka, Charles Harischandra de Soysa Hulugalle at age 77, founder and compiler of the Lanka Chronicle. He passed away peacefully on the morning of 22nd December 2007 at his residence in Colombo 5, Sri Lanka.

The Lanka Chronicle, which comprised of matter relating to Haris Hulugalle's personal view on life, managed to gather a worldwide readership since its inception in 1999 when websites and blogs in Sri Lanka or anywhere else for that matter were few and far between. Like his father, the late Herbert Alexander Jayatilleke Hulugalle, journalist and writer, he was able to zoom into the crux of any matter with ease and wrote lively and readable articles as a result.

The contents of the Lanka Chronicle were put together on a computer by his secretary Padmini, HTML expert, surrounded by ancient books, some over a hundred years old, newspapers, magazines, pictures and such like and stood on a small wooden mahogany desk with a backdrop of tailor-made matching bookshelves filled to capacity with texts of all sorts. The quick mind of the compiler dictated his picture captions, articles, headlines etc. with bird-song and the swishing sounds of large tropical trees just outside. To Haris Hulugalle this was his outlet to let off steam in his retirement and he thoroughly enjoyed it whilst he could, dictating his last entries one week before he passed away as he waited calmly for the ambulance to take him to hospital.

We would also like to inform readers that the Lanka Chronicle will not come to an end but will be continued in the near future by, as he would say his "kith and kin."