Michael Naseby’s Sri Lanka. Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained is on the market was originally due to be launched in Colombo in early April — an event knocked on the solar plexus by the Corona-virus pandemic. We will need time to acquire reviews of this large book; but let me spark interests among lap-dogs as well as cynics by presenting a election of its illustrations.
Michael Morris with family friend Mrs Veena Talwatte … & iron cages used by the LTTE for their prisoners.
The Publisher’s Presentation: Marco Polo in 1298 described Seyllan as the most beautiful island of it size in the world. The Greeks and Romans praised Taprobane and 18th century travellers praised Serendip from which name comes the word serendipity – the luck of the unexpected. So it was for Lord Naseby, then plain Michael Morris working in challenging Calcutta, to be told one Monday morning on 10 May 1963 that he must go urgently to Colombo, Ceylon to handle a crisis. This book is a celebration of Lord Naseby’s subsequent unique involvement with Sri Lanka, its people and its politics over the last fifty years. During that time he has visited the island at least 20 times. He has been an official observer at a number of Presidential and General Elections, witnessed the opening of the Victoria Dam as an official guest, supported the Sri Lanka Government and people through a near-thirty year civil war and was instrumental in the UK’s aid response to the devastating Tsunami of 2004. Indeed, a year later the President of Sri Lanka presented him with the nation ‘ highest award for non- nationals the Sri Lanka Ratna (Titular). This book is a powerful memoir of one man’s very special relationship with a beautiful island and its people, his recollections from fifty years of a unique friendship between a British politician and the people of Sri Lanka.
British Army Cemetery in Kandy …. its condition at one point .and its present rejuvenation
Plate commemorating the opening of the Victoria Dam by Margaret Thatcher 12 April 1985
Differing confrontations: Cricketers facing the England cricket team at Galle …. and the berms that the SL Army commandos had to surmount at the eastern edge of Nandhikadal Lagoon in order to effect (a) the defeat of the Tamil Tigers and (B) release about 180,000 Tamils rapped therein as a major pillar of LTTE strategy 
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Hardback | 224 pages …. London, Unicorn Publishing Group 2020
- ISBN1…1912690748
- ISBN13 ….978191269074
