Sri Lanka Journal of Surgery : chronicles of half a century

Abstract

History is made on pillars of time and perseverance. It's built with hope, knowledge, wisdom and modesty. Such was our beginning, as the Sri Lanka journal of Surgery in 1970. A wonderful mix of all that and more. The College of Surgeons was founded in 1971 in the era of bell-bottoms and disco and also amidst brewing political unrest. It had a rather muted commencement without any assets but the eagerness of the generation of surgeons in that era.