THOMIA …. with the world and the moon in its sights and landing sites
RICHARD’s NOTE, 20 February 2024
Two important Thomia-related things happened yesterday. First, I had a call from Softwave to confirm that the first completed copies of the book would be delivered today, 20 February, as promised. Second, I made a call of my own, to confirm with the proprietors of the Barefoot Gallery Cafe that I shall be holding the official launch of Thomia there on the fourth of March.
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Item in Daily Financial Times circulated by Keith Bennett
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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
Renuka Sadanandan, whose original title runs thus: “Karen Roberts Writing. Her Way of Staying Close” **
Pix by M.A. Pushpa Kumara
It was probably the single most frightening thing that happened to her. Having to walk alone from the advertising agency in Kollupitiya where she worked part-time to her home in Dehiwela, through the streets aflame. Those terrible scenes stayed imprinted in her mind though it was many years before she would think of putting them down.
“On twenty-third of July 1983, the day the world went mad, was how Karen Roberts would later write about the ethnic violence in her book ‘July’. Her world changed that day, she says sombrely. “Until then my life was great…..my only concern was what to wear on Saturday night!” Her father was abroad, her mother had to fetch her younger sister home from school and her brother was stuck somewhere and the 17-year-old Karen had to fend for herself amidst the mayhem and madness that saw the familiar Colombo landscape turn into killing streets.
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Amal Presenta Fernando & Shirley Pulle Tissera
The topmost positions in the Sri Lanka Army are held by three Benedictines, who were in the same class of Rev Bro Alexander Cyrilus FSC.
PRIDE OF ST BENEDICT’S COLLEGE, COLOMBO 13……
It is indeed a very proud occasion for all Benedictines, when the top three ranking officers of the SL army are very Loyal past students of their school To add to the absolute uniqueness of this occasion, they were also classmates who grew up together under the watchful eyes of the Christian brothers, which is the only established Teaching arm of the Catholic Church.
Dr. Remy Perumal in Sunday Times 22 December 2024 …. with this title “Dreaming of a joyous Colombo Chetty Christmas of yesteryear ” ………… The writer is a retired Consultant Physician living in the UK
In the early and mid-1950s, Sri Lanka was a united, harmonious nation. They were Christmases before politicians inflamed nationalist fervour, for political gain and drove a wedge between communities. With Christmas this year coming at a time of political change, we hope it will be a turning point fostering a new era of unity.
Ours was an average Colombo Chetty family of five. We lived within walking distance of St. Lucia’s Cathedral and St. Benedict’s College. Family traditions and religious convictions moulded our views and our approach to the celebrations. Our Christmases were celebrated within our means.
Mater Dolorosa Church: Where Colombo Chetties congregated for Christmas
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Q: Who, in your opinion, is the Greatest Sri Lankan Batsman?
“I tend to agree with statements made by Frank Worrell and Gary Sobers. In their assessment Mahadevan Sathasivam was the best batsman that they had ever seen. Particularly in the case of Worrell, he played against Sathasivam when he scored 96 on a very bad wicket against top bowlers, who did extremely well on poor conditions.
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Gamini Seneviratne, in The Island, 23 December 2024, where the title runs “What AKD and NPP should bear in mind” … reproduced here with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
This is to thank you [the ISLAND newspaper] for drawing attention to the dangers posed by India to our society and its culture and other basic resources as well as its on-going exertions towards encroaching on our maritime territory. 
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https://thuppahis.com/2023/03/30/a-cricketing-saga-extraordinary/
March 30, 2023
A Cricketing Saga Extraordinary
Chandra Schaffter … responding to an earnest request from Michael Roberts**
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