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PEOPLE INBETWEEN was a collaborative project involving Percy Colin-Thome, Ismeth Raheem and Michael Roberts in the year 1989. Its foundation was that of the CA Lorenz Mss in a cabinet held by the Royal asiatic Society. The RAS was housed then in a section of the Colombo Racecourse. Percy, alas, is no more with us; but his labours were central to the deployment of the documents; while a sabbatical yar of research in 1988/89 enabled me to work on the project alongiside my other tasks. The term “inbetween” in the title was crafted in non-grammatical manner from my aesthetic preference.
The Sarvodaya printing establishment helped us in material ways in producing the book in a situation of political and economic difficulty within the island.
Geoff Lawson, in The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 January 2025, where the title runs thus “Quiet, respectful, humble, orthodox: I watched Sam Konstas for two years and this is what I saw”
It might be confusing to be labelled an “enigma” at the ripe old age of 19. Rock stars, politicians and sports stars tend to fill the niche more than nuclear physicists or the neighbourhood postie, but no occupation is exempt.
Australian batter Sam Konstas tells Channel Seven how he used the innovative ramp shot against India’s Jasprit Bumrah, the world’s best fast bowler, in the Boxing Day Test.
It usually takes some time and a little effort to become an enigma because you have to establish a regular persona first. This generally takes a while in the public space, then you have to ripen those characteristics, i.e. become misunderstood or inconsistent with those expected traits.
Sam James Konstas jolted fans, coaches and mentors out of their festive season lounge chair lethargy with batting that is hard to forget. The flabbergast from coaches and mentors is not about how many Test runs he is making, but how he is making them. And then there was the non-playing theatrics.
His batting in his short Test career has been outrageous – sort of in a good way and sort of in an enigmatic way; mysterious and effective, yet hard to find a niche for it in the lengthy archives of Test cricket.
England’s Ben Duckett and Harry Brook, under the gaze of Brendon McCullum, have led a charge of sorts into this rampage and scoop era, so it can’t be said that Konstas has a patent on such unorthodoxy. Javed Miandad (who learnt it off Mushtaq Mohammad) and Mike Gatting were reverse sweeping in the early 1980s. Gatting famously got out while playing the stroke to Allan Border in the World Cup final in 1987, effectively handing the trophy to Australia. A single failure led to a generation of derision for “Gatt” – and the stroke.
Cricket’s pundits have been split in their acceptance of Konstas’ methods and his reluctance to show deference to his seniors in the opposition. Deference is a separate beast to respect. The intense media scrutiny that all international cricketers are subject to has magnified any eyebrow raise from the teenage debutant.
But he has revelled in the scrutiny and the competition, which is not surprising since he is a child of the social media-driven 21st century and has seen his picture on small screens since he was nine years old, when he started making hundreds.
Item in Daily Mirror, 10 January 2025 ….with highlighting emphasis imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
Sri Lanka’s star athlete and 2000 Sydney Olympic Games Silver Medallist, Susanthika Jayasinghe, has decided to settle in Melbourne, Australia, with her two children. She left Sri Lanka about two months ago and has [told] friends that she is uncertain about returning to the country. Her migration to Australia is aimed at prioritizing the education and future of her children. Susanthika’s contemporary athlete, Asian medallist and Olympian Damayanthi Darsha, also moved to Australia with her family a few years ago.
Don Bradman Memorabilia in Adelaide’s Sri Lankan Realms … https://thuppahis.com › 2024/06/06 › don-bradman-me…
6 June 2024 — This Thuppahi post is a potpourri of Memorabilia around the Persona of Sir Donald Bradman …. with an ink-sketch of Don Bradman by Douglas Davies
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Don Bradman at Cricket in Ceylon in 1930 …. Yes, 1930…. https://thuppahis.com › 2023/03/06 › don-bradman-at-…
6 Mar 2023 — On 3 April 1930, at Colombo Cricket Club, Donald Bradman played his first game of cricket outside Australia. He treated the crowd to plenty of shots …
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Sunil Thenabadu, in Ceylon Daily News, January 2025
Rhodes Trust has presented a Set of NAMES & PHOTOs of Rhodes Scholars before they start at Oxford as Rhodes Scholars.
Abrianna Morales, New Mexico, 2025 …. Abrianna Morales, of Placitas, New Mexico, graduated summa cum laude from the University of New Mexico in 2023, where she studied Psychology, Criminology, and Mathematics. An internationally recognized speaker and advocate, Abrianna has spent the past seven years working at the intersections of youth engagement, gender-based violence prevention, and victims’ rights. She currently works with the National Organization for Victim Advocacy (NOVA) as the program manager of their pilot Victim Advocacy Corps (VAC), a federally-funded initiative that aims to provide college students throughout the United States with victim advocacy training, credentialing, mentorship, and a paid field-placement at a local victim service agency. A Truman Scholar and McNair Scholar, Abrianna has conducted research on victims’ experiences of procedural justice and New Mexicans’ resilience in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has published multiple reports on youth service in partnership with the Allstate Foundation. An avid reader and writer, Abrianna is interested in exploring the relationship between lived experiences of oppression, personal narrative, and the development of the political self. At Oxford, she hopes to pursue an MPhil in Political Theory.
Michael Roberts
In late 2003 or early 2004 I was privileged to receive an invitation from Nazreen Sansoni of Barefoot to participate in the Galle Literary festival where the central events took place within the precincts of the Galle Fort — a familiar spot replete with memories of my childhood and youthful experiences.
Dr Hilali Noordeen
Karen Roberts
As it happened one of the literary stars featuring in the manifold ‘events” of the GL Festival was Karen Roberts, whose background and literary work was known to me. She was, I stress, no relation, though she had been educated in a school in Wellawatte that was a stone’s throw away from my sister Estelle Fernando’s abode in Hampden Lane Wellawatte.
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https://thuppahis.com/2020/05/15/ivor-jennings-and-peradeniya-university-in-two-excursions/
https://thuppahis.com/2022/04/26/an-ode-for-maureen-neliya-hingert-ceylons-beauty-queen/
https://thuppahis.com/2022/04/26/maureen-hingerts-life-times-in-pictures/
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