Stimulating Biographies in Thuppahi …. Visited Yesterday by Assorted All Sorts

Michael Roberts 

The digital system sustaining my THUPPAHI WEBSITE provides daily reports on the items that receive a viewing. Looking over the LIST for 2 February 2026 and focusing on items that had just ONE VIEWING I have chosen items that focused on individuals — biographical sketches in other words.

Needless to say a few of these relate  to famous personnel but not all selections are within this frame. Readers may  find the selections  –and they are, I stress, selections, interesting

GC Mendis   

Chandra Schaffter   

Duncan  White   

Sunil Wettimuny

 

  • Lessons from Lee Kuan Yew’s Reflections of Sri Lankan Political History
  • Beyond Imagination – Chandra Schaffter’s Life of Service
  • CJR Le Mesurier: A British Civil Servant who challenged the Imperial Orde
  • Sunil Wettimuny. Stylish Opening Batsman — Felled Twice … Remains Indestructible
  • Vale: Two Appreciations of Sandadas Coperahewa
  • Skandakumar introduces Anura Tennekoon’s Cricketing Autobiography to the World

 The Lord of Cricketing Gods in India: MS Dhoni

  • Medical Man Sanjiva Wijesinha’s “Not Our War” hits the bookshelves
  • A Remarkable Loyalty in the Artistry of Ivor Denis
  • The Epitome of Scholarship in British Migration History and Much More: Eric Richards’ Publications Galore
  • Is Prabakaran NOT a Hitler! …. Goodness Gracious Me!
  • Imran Khan on world affairs: Q and A with Lokendra Pratap Sahi
  • Remembering a Renaissance Man, Ediriweera Sarachchandra
  • Bertrand Russell’s Message to the World on Zionism in January 1970
  • Chatting with Clive Inman on His Cricketing Past for the Quadrangle’s “Scoop”
  • Remembering Percy Abeysekera: Lanka’s Cricketing Flagbearer,
  • HK Dharmadasa passes away: A Tribute
  • Where Ratwatte and CBK Stood Strong: Coping with the Elephant Pass Debacle in April-May 2000
  • Looking Back at DS Senanayake and the Gal Oya Project
  • John D’Oyly’s Manifold Skills and the British Conquest of the Kandyan Kingdom
  • Forbidden Fruits? Niromi de Soyza under Scrutin
  • Reading Amunugama’s Study of Anagārika Dharmapala in LION’S ROAR
  • The Sangakkaras Erudite & Charitable: At Home and Abroad
  • The Power of Poetry: Learning from Ashley Halpé
  • Remembering Ravi Jayewardene as Man and Founder of the STF
  • Gamini Goonesena: Leading Cambridge to Victory in 1957
  • Remembering DS Senanayake on Sri Lanka’s Independence Day
  • Duncan White: Trinitian, Olympian, Ceylonese
  • G. C. Mendis: A Sound Historian of the Old School
  • Ameer Ali’s Academic Works and Career
  • Shavendra Silva becomes Chief of Staff, Sri Lankan Army

In Memory of Nalin De Silva: Indomitable Marxist Scholar

  • Hilda Muriel Kularatne, Theosophist & Educationist in Ceylon
  • Laki Senanayake As I Knew Him
  • The Lonely Cadet and the Maiden: Leonard Woolf in Jaffna …..
  • Gamini Goonesena as a Legend
  • An Inspiring Sri Lankan Anthropologist: Gananath Obeysekere

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