A timeless children’s book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is 150 years old in 2015 and the story of this beguiling tale begins with its creator, Charles Ludwidge Dodgson. Charles was a natural storyteller who regularly invented new stories to entertain his friends. He knew that for the best stories to work, the child must be at the centre of the narrative so that their imagination could be led to marvellous and wonderful places. Inspired by real events and a real child, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was dreamt up on a summer’s day in Oxford. The river outing with the Liddell family on 4 July 1862, from Folly Bridge to Godstow, is now famous for the Alice story to which it led. Charles L. Dodgson travelled downriver with the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (the college at which Charles was a lecturer in Mathematics), and his family. Along the way he told the family a story about a bored little girl called Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The family loved it and at the end of that day, the daughter, Alice Liddell, asked for the story to be written down. Charles Dodgson agreed and began writing the manuscript the next day. It eventually took him two and a half years to complete. an excerpt from Philip Pullman’s foreword to The Complete Alice by Lewis Carroll. Chandralal Colombage was born in Sri Lanka and had his academic education there. Having qualified in 1973 as an Accountant he got his first job as the Assistant Chief Accountant at Hotel Ceylon Inter-Continental. In 1977, he decided to travel to Nigeria to take up an appointment with the Oyo State Water Corporation. After 2 years, he moved to Liberia to work in iron ore mining companies, also in the finance field. In 1984 he emigrated to Australia. A naturalised Australian, he joined the City of Sydney in 1993 as their Chief Financial Officer. He was part of the team that was responsible for preparing the city for the staging of the 2000 Olympics. In 2003, Chandralal was appointed to undertake work with the South African government on a World Bank sponsored assignment. The work entailed assisting municipalities in improving their financial management practices. After 11 years of living and working in South Africa, he concluded his involvement with the program. All through the years, Chandralal has been writing. But the outputs remained private. Now he has decided to pursue his penmanship more seriously and has already published 2 short stories (The Friend and Calvin) which are available on Amazon. Chandralal has 3 sons (a lawyer turned priest, a solar engineer turned marketer and a journalist desiring to be a politician).