Desktop Calendar with Scenic Shots of Galle Fort in Sri Lanka …. 11.5X6.5 inches, wire bound, 14 printed pages, 180 gsm, gloss finish, in colour
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Adelaide Strikers dismissed the Sydney Thunder XI for 15 Runs in the Thunder terrain of Sydney …. surely a world record fora T20 Match … Michael Roberts
HEADLINE NEWS THIS !
* “Adelaide Strikers dismiss Sydney Thunder for world record low score of 15” ….. The Hindu, https://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/big-bash-league-adelaide-strikers-dismiss-sydney-thunder-for-world-record-low-score-of-15/
Henry Thornton picked up five wickets, for just three runs••Cricket Australia via Getty Images
Wes Agar celebrates one of his tw0 wickets
Karthigesu Sivathamby
This item now presented in Thuppahi is the first part of a book in pdf format entitled The Tamils of Sri Lanka. In converting the pdf the whole text went haywire and the paragraph divisions were all over the shop. I cannot guarantee that my painstaking editorial reconstruction stuck to Siva’s original design. I have refrained from inserting any highlighting emphasis on the text: so the highlighting you see is there in the original… As far as I could work out, this work was finalized in 1989, but that point is subject to correction ………….. Michael Roberts Continue reading
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Errol Fernando in Email Note to Darragh O’Donovan, 14 December 2022
Yes, Darragh, I did turn up at last Saturday and watch Dilshan hit the ball all over Sydney Pargeter Reserve. At the ripe old age of 46 he can still get a game for Sri Lanka! Fours and sixes all over the place!
However, I had one extremely close call. I was busy chatting with Nuwan Ranasinghe, a Sri Lankan media man, and took my eye off the game for a moment. Suddenly Nuwan shouted at me to duck and I looked up to see the ball heading towards me and it crashed into the tree behind me. It is no exaggeration to say that the ball missed my head by no more than a couple of inches ! Nuwan was far more shattered than I was !
Courtesy of Richard Koenigsberg in New York
HITLER: “If I don’t mind sending the pick of the German people into the hell of war without regret over the spilling of precious German blood, then I naturally also have the right to eliminate millions of an inferior race that multiplies like vermin.” …..
Adolf Hitler raises a defiant, clenched fist during a speech.
circa 1933: German Dictator, Adolf Hitler addressing a rally in Germany. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Afshin Rattansi
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“Disappearing Burgher Surnames in Island Lanka” …. Author and location unknown at present … and not to be confused with Careem’s article on “Disappearing Burgher & Malay Surnames in Island Lanka”…at… https://thuppahis.com/2017/01/30/disappearing-burgher-and-malay-surnames-i
Pix of Burgher Tennis Club in the Fort of Galle in 1928 inserted here courtesy of David Colin-Thome … for names: visit https://thuppahis.com/2017/06/29/burgher-tennis-club-in-galle-circa-1928/
Some of the most colourful surnames that once stood as a beacon to help distinguish the ethnic backgrounds of locals have now gone into abeyance. The ethnographers are of the opinion that the frequent intermarriages with members of the prominent ethnic groups and the death of male line descendants have gradually airbrushed the identities of many minorities. However, it is unmistakably clear that many of the Lankan patronymics and surnames have European roots. The Ceylon Burgher Community is the finest exponent of this European Onomatology in Sri Lanka, as the members of the community carry some of the World’s rarest surnames, several of which at present verge on extinction. The ancestors of the Dutch Burghers were not necessarily Dutch by ethnic origin as the Dutch East India Company installed hundreds of mercenaries from all parts of Europe who later reached the shores of Lanka to strengthen the Dutch garrisons on the Island.
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Michael Roberts …. presenting the first section in Chapter X of People Inbetween (1989) pp 140-47. … The chapter is entitled “Standing Forth as Ceylonese, 1850s” *++*
Introduction
We need to begin by reaching back into the Maritime Provinces of Ceylon during the first decades of British rule after their seizure of these territories in 1795-96. We shall first recapitulate some of the points made in previous chapters.
We saw that the distinction between VOC officialdom and the Burghers quickly disappeared under the British; that the Hollandsche and even the Tupass of yesteryear were defined as Europeans in some British regulations. We also saw that there was some measure of social interaction between the British and creole families of respectable status during the early decades of British rule (supra: 50ff). In both social intercourse and collective designation, however, the old distinction between the Hollandsche and the Tupass persisted in the form of the opposition between the “Burgher Inhabitants” (or its equivalent, for example, “Dutch”) and the “Portuguese” (or Tupass, Topaz, Mestizos, Mechanics) when people used the English language; and in Sinhala between “lánsi” on the one hand and “tuppáhi” or “párángi” or sinno on the other.[1]
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Des Collins
A pause in play as Sir Don Bradman receives a telegram while batting for the Australians Worcestershire in April, 1938
Such interruptions were pretty common back then.
Hampshire’s Lionel Tennyson, during his captaincy days, used telegrams to give his batsmen instructions during games!
Much better than using sandpaper for ball tampering instructions by the Aussies.
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