Anjalendran Chronology
| 1951 | born in Colombo |
| 1957 | starts school at Royal College |
| 1959 | S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike assassinated |
| 1961 | meets the dancer Mirnalini Sarabhai starts dance classes with Sukendhu Dutt |
| 1966 | Arangetram (dance debut) |
| 1967 | forced to give up dancing |
| 1969 | passes A level examinations |
| 1970 | gap year: learns piano, teaches origami |
| S.L.F.P. election victory, Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes first woman prime minister | |
| 1971 | joins the Colombo University School of Architecture J.V.P. Insurrection |
| 1972 | School of Architecture transfers to the University of Moratuwa |
| 1973 | awarded BSc in Architecture |
| 1974 | joins the p.g. diploma course at University College, London |
| six months' supervised practical training with architects Yorke, Rosenberg & Mardall | |
| 1975 | six months' supervised practical training with Gleesons Ltd. |
| begins second year of p.g. diploma course death of his father Chelvadurai | |
| 1976 | awarded Postgraduate Diploma in architecture joins the MSc course at U.C.L. |
| 1977 | U.N.P. election victory: J.R Jayawardene becomes prime minister and later president |
| returns to Colombo without completing dissertation | |
| 1978 | joins Edwards, Ried and Begg (Geoffrey Bawa) as an assistant |
| 1979 | completes dissertation and awarded MSc at U.C.L. |
| 1980 | joins architect Surath Wickremasinghe completes a house for Senake Bandaranayake and Manel Fonseka |
| 1981 | first trip to Tamil Nadu |
| 1982 | sets up his own office on his mother's verandah |
| 1983 | anti-Tamil riots in Sri Lanka |
| works with Barbara Sansoni and Laki Senanayake on The Architecture of an Island | |
| begins working for SOS Children's Villages | |
| 1984 | first trip to Rajasthan completes the Hermann Gmeiner School, Pilyandala |
| 1985 | works on Geoffrey Bawa monograph completes the 'House Round the Mango Tree' for Romesh Bandaranayake |
| 1986 | completes the SOS Children's Village, Nuwara Eliya trip to Moscow with Geoffrey Bawa, workshop at MIT |
| 1987 | the Indian 'Peacekeeping Force' occupies northern Sri Lanka receives S.L.I.A. Design Awards in four categories |
| 1988 | befriends Ena de Silva, designs workshops at Aluvihare |
| 1989 | receives the Herman Gmeiner Silver Medal for his work for SOS Children's Villages |
| J.V.P. terror in southern Sri Lanka | |
| trip to Spain with Dominic Sansoni | |
| 1992 | moves home and office to Battaramulla |
| completes the Keerthi Wickremasuriya House | |
| completes SOS Children's Villages | |
| 1993 | occupies his new house in Battaramulla |
| assassination ofprime minister Premadasa | |
| 1994 | completes a gem factory for Ellawala Exports |
| first teaching assignment at Indus Valley School, Karachi | |
| 1995 | competes the Lilani de Silva House |
| marriages of Dominic Sansoni and Nazreen Philips and Dharmavasan and Julie van der Bliek | |
| K. Muthukumar (aka Kumar) joins household | |
| 1996 | completes SOS Children's Village, Anuradhapura trip to Turkey with Lilani de Silva |
| 1998 | Geoffrey Bawa paralysed by stroke |
| Le Corbusier study tour with David Robson | |
| birth of Laxshmi Dharmavasan | |
| 1999 | completes the Dharmavasan House, Battaramulla trip to Burma with Lilani de Silva and Barbara Sansoni |
| stays with Senake Bandaranayake in Paris | |
| 2000 | trip to China with Lilani de Silva Swiss study tour with David Robson |
| 2001 | birth of Sanjay Dharmavasan |
| trips to Cambodia and Lebanon | |
| goes with Channa Daswatte to Syria to receive the Aga Khan Award on behalf of Geoffrey Bawa | |
| 2002 | completes the Mir House, Karachi |
| Peace Accord signed between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil rebels | |
| 2003 | completes the Radhika Coomaraswamy house |
| death of Geoffrey Bawa | |
| Italy tour with David Robson | |
| 2004 | Tsunami hits east and south coasts of Sri Lanka |
| 2005 | completes the Mount Cinnamon Estate Bungalow for Miles Young |
| trip to Kashmir with Miles Young, Shayan & cousin Anushya | |
| trip to Morocco with cousin Anushya and Channa Daswatte | |
| 2006 | completes the 'House Beneath the Banyan Tree' for Captain and Mrs Wahab |
| breakdown of peace process and steady increase in hostilities across the north and east | |
| 2007 | trip to China with Miles Young and Ena de Silva |
| 2008 | formal ending of the Peace Accord and return to open hostilities |
| completes the Anjalendran / Young Guest House, Battaramulla |