Michael Roberts
The WORD PRESS web managers provide a running table of figures’ showing which items in my Website, https://thuppahis.com …., have been visited and presumably read EACH DAY. Presented below are selections from the HITS on the 9th July.
The Indian reporter Muralidhar Reddy with SL Army Supreme Commander Shavendra Silva at an SL Army briefing in Kilinochchi in early 2009
- Killing Rajiv Gandhi: Sacrificial Metamorphosis? .…….. 7
- In-Your-Face: Reflection on Political Confrontation in Sri Lanka in the 1970s ………………. 6
- For Muralidhar Reddy: Thoughts on Eelam War IV in late 2009 …... 5
- Saving Talaivar Pirapāharan …………………..5
- Hero Stones in India in the Past ……………….. 4
- The Rajasingams and Their Profound Legacies …………… 4
- LTTE Roots in Tamilnadu ………………………..4
- Caste & Politics in the Sri Lankan Tamil World …………. 3
- LTTE Activists at Work in Britain, …2021 stirring both Labour and Tories …3
- The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination: The Inside Story … Part Four ….3
- Enthusiasm for War: Australians in the 1910s and Jihadists in the 2010s …3
- Ethnic Categories in Sri Lanka: Issues ………………… 2
- The LTTE: Its Initial Founding and Funding …………………. 2
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A SPECIAL NOTE:
I happened to spend a good part of the period Mid-April to Early July 2009 in Colombo and Sri Lanka and was delighted to find Muralidhar Reddy as the correspondent for The Hindu newspaper in Colombo. It so happened that I had met him at Dr Sanjay Srivastavá’s home in Delhi at some point in the 1990s. Our friendship blossomed in 2009 and he also introduced me to Kanchan Prasad, another Indian news reporter. My writings on the LTTE and the final stages of Eelam War IV benefited greatly from these connections.
Murali, alas, is no longer with us. I will be presenting a requiem for him in due course. THAT PICTURE of him with Shavendra is one shot in his memory.
Also see Murali Reddy’s Frontline Access to the War Zone in May 2009 | Thuppahi’s Blog
