Michael Tissera**
It is with deep sadness that I received the news of Sir Garfield’s passing away and joined the cricketing world that knew of his legendary contribution to the game, to mourn his demise.
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Michael Roberts
An AI NOTE which cropped up when I searched for information on the father of the Wettimuny cricketing brothers whose house between Thurstan Road and Duplication Road in Colombo I had visited way back in the past … and whose hospitality in typical Lankan manner remains deeply etched in mind.
I was not aware of Wettimuny Senior’s passion for cricket and his work in establishing an indoor cricketing school.
I remain astonished by AI’s reach:
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Gideon Haigh
In Cricket In The Leagues, John Kay describes a match in which Garry Sobers represented Norton and was hit back over his head. Sobers reportedly turned, ran towards the boundary shouting “leave it to me” and took the catch just in front of the sightscreen.
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Vithushan Ehantharajah
McCullum admitted that results against India and Australia defined his tenure as Test coach and has apologised to England fans for failing to get the results he and they desired in marquee Test series, ….admitting the time is right for someone else to take over as Test head coach.Filed under Uncategorized
A CAUTIONARY NOTE From Michael Roberts as Editor, Thuppahi
This Item came from an anonymous source. I am not a political economist and do not have the skills or means of ascertaining the truth or falehoods in the alleged “facts’ presented below. But it appears that the dealings referred to here are not uncommon in the world at large …whether today or yesterday.
The Rajapaksa clan have thier roots in the southern outback district of Hambantota. But the present generations had their schooling in the fee-paying elite school known as S. Thomas’ College. The school’s historians and stalwarts may face have some difficulties in addressing the capacities & legacies of the Rajapaksa clan if the claims presented below have solid foundations.
Note the IF.
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The Australian cricket team had a short tour of Sri Lanka during the 1982–83 season. The two countries played their first ever Test together, which Australia won.[1] Sri Lanka defeated Australia in the rain affected ODI series 2–0.
The squad was announced in March 1983. Regular players Rod Marsh, Jeff Thomson, Geoff Lawson and Kim Hughes elected not to tour. Australia picked the following squad:
Five of the players had not toured for Australia before: Smith, Maguire, Hogan, Wessels and Woolley. Woolley was chosen over two other Sheffield Shield wicketkeepers who had represented Australia in Test cricket, Kevin Wright and Steve Rixon.[2] John Dyson, who had been an Australian regular over the home summer, was a surprise omission. Graham Yallop earned an international recall after a very strong domestic season. Tom Hogan was considered a surprise selection.[3]
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Sharmala Kanagasundaram … with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
Sharmala Kanagasundram’s ‘Portrait of a Colombo Tamil Family’ launched in Colombo, 43 years after ‘Black July’
A deeply personal account of loss, resilience and renewal, ‘Portrait of a Colombo Tamil Family’ by Sri Lanka-born Sharmala Kanagasundram has been launched in Colombo, coinciding with the 43rd anniversary of the events of July 1983, remembered as ‘Black July.’
The book offers an intimate narrative that mirrors the experiences of many Tamil families whose lives were irrevocably altered during that period. Through the story of her own family, Mrs Kanagasundram presents a vivid chronicle of a way of life that was abruptly dismantled, and the long journey towards rebuilding in a new land.
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Michael Roberts reproducing an article that appeared initially in Groundviews in April 2009 [when the LTTE was on its last legs]; and was then reprinted in Roberts, FIRE and STORM, Vijitha Yapa Publications, Colombo, 2010, pp.239-62
This set of essays on “LTTE and Tamil People” submitted to Groundviews is a sequel to the four articles on “Suicidal Political Action” reproduced in http://www.transcurrents.com from 2 April onwards. Both sets of essays are interconnected and involve a measure of repetition because they are set out as separate articles. All of them are a product of a comparative survey that I embarked on about five years ago: namely, reviewing the cultural ingredients which have motivated the projects of the jihadists (holy warriors) and mujahideen (fighters for cause) on the one hand and, on the other, the kamikaze and the karumpuli (Black Tigers) after – and this point has to be stressed — these forces had been generated by specific politico-military situations in particular contexts.
Pirapaharan hnours the Tamil Tiger dead
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Rajan Hoole, whose chosen title for this Vale is “Devanesan Annan – in Memoriam” … with the highlighting in black being his imprint & the other colouring being that of The Editor, Thuppahi
Part 1. Boyhood and Career
Devanesan was the eldest of Canon and Mrs. Somasundaram’s grandchildren, born in 1935, the youngest being Theepaharan, born in 1972. I was born in 1948. My earliest memory goes back to March 1951: to Tangalle Hospital, when my younger brother Muktan was born and just outside the window, a game of volleyball was being played. A subsequent memory, also in Tangalle, probably 1952 recalls my cousins Balen Annan and Lanka Annan, chatting, while clutching the bars of a large window at our home in Tangalle. The next early memory was from the vicarage in Nallur in 1952: the compound was full of children, my cousins. I think that was the time my grandfather, Thatha, then aged 76 fell off the Tamarind tree, which I learnt he was routinely in the habit of climbing. I saw him falling on his two feet and hands, which probably eased his fall. He was in pain and was placed on a bed. This was considered a routine of his life.
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Happenchance helps does it Not? A chance remark on web led me to one of my books entitled FIRE AND Storm. Essays in Sri Lankan Politics …. which was published by Vijitha Yapa Publications in December 2010. This step led me to another of my essays that was presented in the SRI LANKA GUARDIAN on the 15th August 2010 … with this title: “Ethnic Identity in Sri Lanka’s Pre-Capitalist Past: Shanie, Darshanie and Roberts.”
This old venture … in my biased view ,,,, provides good foundations for REFLECTION and DEBATE today. So, let me generate a reprint.
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