I am Tom Kalkalan, a foot crank, know to my closest school friends as “Lickfoot Papissa”; meaning ‘foot maniac’. This is my confession. Most of the places and incidents mentioned are true, but the characters may not be so. If at all some of the characters resemble true people please consider it to be purely a coincidence.

My father was Karl and my mother was Maduri. We live in Pussellawa, in the central hill country of Sri Lanka; a beautiful island state in the Indian Ocean – at the very tip of the Indian continent. My only sister Rachel now lives in Canada with her husband and two children. I continue to live with my wife Amanda and two children in Pussellawa, at our family estate.