In this powerful collection titled ‘Beyond Check Points’, Bishop Duleep de Chickera deals with the tense reality as well as the symbolic significance of that special space - a check point. It is that point of encounter, most often in a confrontational location, in a physically limited space, where individuals or groups of people from different backgrounds and contexts, encounter each other for a brief moment in time. The background context for war and violence bring in the added elements of fear, tension and power into play, and on occassion also, an awareness of one’s common humanity.