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
- 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