Personnel from Different Ethnic Backgrounds have expressed Firm Accolades for Premila Thurairatnam’s Essay on Alagu Subramanium, ….Michael Roberts in Adelaide, November 2025
Very interesting article Michael. Thanks for sharing
For the P Sara Oval in Colombo: Mike Tissera’s Capital Tribute
News Item in The Island, 3 November 2025
Former All Ceylon cricket captain Mr. Michael Tissera was the Chief Guest at Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club’s 125th jubilee celebrations in Colombo on Friday. Mr. Tissera’s during his keynote address recalled his experiences of playing cricket at P. Sara Oval in the pre-Test era when he skippered Ceylon for some famous wins. During his address, he hoped that Test cricket returns to P. Sara Oval soon. Country’s first Test venue has not hosted a Test match since 2019.
Here are the excerpts of Mr. Tissera’s speech.
Mr. Ramesh Schaffter, President Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club, Members of the Committee, Distinguished members and Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Good evening,
Thank you Ramesh, for the honour and privilege bestowed upon me. I am deeply humbled and to say my knees are not knocking would be an understatement.
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Drunken Amity with a Bengal Tiger
Placed in FACEBOOK by Nimal Jayasinha, 30 October 2025
On October 4, 2025, in Pench, India, a surreal moment was captured on CCTV. Raju Patel, a 52-year-old labourer, patted a tiger he mistook for a “big cat” after a late-night card game. Tipsy from homemade liquor, Raju stumbled onto a street where a sub-adult Bengal tiger, displaced by monsoon floods, had wandered from the nearby Pench Tiger Reserve. Unfazed, Raju gently touched its head. For 5-10 minutes, they stood together. He even offered it a swig from his bottle, which it ignored. Forest officials later arrived with spotlights and mild tranquilizers and guided the exhausted tiger back to the woods. No one was harmed, and Raju became a local legend, shrugging, “It was just a pussy cat.” As new information emerges, Raju is now under heavy police protection and has blocked his Social Media account. He was apparently being hounded by the entire local married male population who were demanding access to the recipe for the homemade liquor. 
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Another Cricketing KILL: Ben Austin in Australia …. VALE For Ben
The father of Melbourne teenager Ben Austin, who died after an accident at cricket training, has said his son would want others to keep enjoying the “great game” after the freak incident. “He loved the game.” This is a great game, cricket, and it wasn’t the game’s fault, that was just a freak accident, a freak accident,” Jace Austin said. “Please make sure you keep playing this great game. That’s what he would want.”
VISIT ITEM IN ABC NEWS .….. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-31/victoria-ben-austin-cricket-death-tributes/105954270
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Enrico Fermi: His Mind-blowing Scientific Breakthrough
Hiran de Silva in FACEBOOK ……….. https://www.facebook.com/
Every school must have a weekly hour called ” Great Minds”. In that period, students must be shown the biographies of the greatest minds the world has produced for inspiration. If language is a problem, it is not difficult to include subtitles. Projectors are so cheap these days. If the education ministry can coordinate with a Chinese/Taiwanese/Korean company, a product (with an embossed seal reading “not for sale”) could be sourced for less than $125 each.
As many parents would admit, Gen-Z has no worthwhile role models. Below is such a story that will even inspire a grown-up.
ABOUT ENRICO FERMI
At 14, he had mastered calculus and classical mechanics—teaching himself from a 19th-century Latin textbook. By 21, his doctoral examiners couldn’t understand his thesis. At 41, he built the first nuclear reactor and changed the world forever.
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Aussies Overwhelm India in T20 at MCG
Alex Malcolm in ESPNCricInfo …
What explains India’s batting blowout?
Australia 126 for 6 (Marsh 46, Varun 2-23) beat India 125 (Abhishek 68, Hazlewood 3-13) by four wickets
A spellbinding performance from Josh Hazlewood silenced an MCG crowd of 82,438 that was dominated by India supporters and handed Australia a 1-0 series lead. Everything about the atmosphere felt like an away game for the home side except for the quintessential fast-paced Australian pitch, and Hazlewood thrived, taking 3 for 13 from four overs to bundle India out for 125 despite a stunning lone hand from Abhishek Sharma, who made 68 off 37 balls to give Australia something to chase.
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A Critical Junction in Sri Lanka’s Socio-Political Scenario
Jehan Perera in The Island, 28 October 2025, where the title runs thua: “Barometer confirms window for political settlement”... with the highlights here being impositions by The Editor, Thuppahi
Once again, Sri Lanka is at a crossroads. After decades of missed opportunities and delayed reforms, the conditions are there for a lasting political resolution of the ethnic conflict. The NPP government has the chance to resolve the country’s longest and most divisive conflict through Sri Lankan institutions, on its own terms. The government holds a two-thirds majority in parliament that allows it to amend the constitution and introduce the reforms that past governments promised but failed to deliver. It came to power on the back of a popular demand for system change, and the public expectation that followed that election was not for minor adjustments but for a deep restructuring of the state. The opposition is neither strong nor dominated by the racist and extremist voices that in the past sabotaged every attempt at reconciliation.
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Martin Wickramasinghe Brought To London ….
UDITHA DEVAPRIYA will be presenting a WEBINAIR on MARTIN WICKRAMASINGHE at SOAS in London on 13th November 2025 …. “The Evolution of the Sri Lankan Mind. ….”
Author, journalist, thinker, and critic, Martin Wickramasinghe (1890 – 1976) was one of Sri Lanka’s most renowned writers and cultural and literary figures. His body of work includes 13 novels and numerous short stories, and almost countless essays on art, culture, history, literature, politics, and anthropology.
Deeply bilingual and bicultural, Wickramasinghe explored various facets of indigenous art, culture, and literature in his essays. These display a fervent interest in subjects like sociology.
I am currently working on a critical study of Martin Wickramasinghe. Beginning in November, I will make a series of presentations on Wickramasinghe’s life and work. The first of these will be a webinar at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the UK.
Date: 13 November 2025
Time: 12.00 noon London Time (05.30 pm Sri Lanka and India Time)
You can register for the webinar here.
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ALSO NOTE
Uditha Devapriya: “Profound Currents of Thought: …. https://thuppahis.com/2023/04/25/profound-currents-of-thought-at-trinity-college-fraser-martin-wickramasinghe-bishop-wickremesinghe/
Michael Roberts: “Promrdial Strands in Contemporary Strands of Sinhalese Nationalism: Urumaya as Ur,” https://thuppahis.com/2014/12/24/primordialist-strands-in-contemporary-sinhalese-nationalism-urumaya-as-ur/
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A de Kretser Family who gained Aussie Citizenship in 1952
Hugh de Kretser, “An Early Burgher Migrant Family to Australia in 1952”
It’s Australian Citizenship Day. This is my dad’s family along with their citizenship application and certificate. They emigrated from Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon) to Australia in 1949 and became Australian citizens in 1952.
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Aged, but Still ‘Batting’: Two Thomian Cricket Stars From Yesteryear
Captured at a Momentous Meeting in Nugegoda This October 2025 ,,, by That Dushy Perera of Ruk-Rakaganno Fame
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