Offline: Being one of the lucky ones
Dr Sivakumar was a successful Consultant Psychiatrist in Maidstone, UK. He had emigrated from Sri Lanka in 1977 and was, in his words, “one of the lucky ones”. Why lucky? Because, having received a “decent English education” in his home country, Dr Sivakumar’s journey through medicine as a South Asian doctor in the UK was “comfortable”. This outcome had not necessarily been his expectation. He arrived from Sri Lanka armed with letters attesting to his excellent English language skills. He did not need them.
