This book contains the series of articles contributed to the Sunday edition of the Sinhala newspaper Mawbima based on information gathered during a series of meetings Nandana Tennekoon had with Dr. Mirando Obeysekere spanning over an year. The reader response was tremendous. It continues to date and that has resulted in the publication of this book. The plethora of interesting evidence contained in the ola manuscript about the Ravana era and the studies conducted by Dr. Mirando Obeysekere provided material for the articles published in the Sinhala newspaper Mawbima under the title 'Ravana Vata'. It was only in the articles published in the Mawbima newspaper that the information contained in the ola manuscript was revealed for the first time in its original form.
