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The Last Colonial author-christopher-ondaatje creating an aesthetic revolution whichChristopher Ondaatje is a true child of the British Empire. Born in Ceylon, the son of a tea planter from a well known island family, he was brought up on the plantation. Then as a teenager he was packed off to England to get a decent education and to learn how to become an Englishman. But soon after Ceylon was granted its Independence in 1948 his family found themselves destitute, which forced the young Ondaatje to get a job. He spent his seventeenth