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December 3, 2022 · 8:15 pm

Remembering Julia Margaret Cameron

A Julia Margaret Cameron Bibliography   At different moments Thuppahi has presented photographs from that remarkable 19th century cameraperson Julia Margaret Cameron (maiden name “Pattle”) who was intimately linked to British Ceylon because her father [error … her husband] was … Continue reading →

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November 7, 2022 · 7:10 pm

Hayden for Pakistan: Hayden’s Post-Match Speech goes Viral

Andrew McMurtry in Foxsports.com ….. … https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/t20-world-cup-2021/matthew-haydens-pakistan-speech-goes-viral-after-world-cup-miracle/new Aussie cricket legend Matthew Hayden’s inspirational dressing room speech after Pakistan made the T20 World Cup semi-finals has gone viral. The former Aussie opener was the batting coach for Pakistan at the last … Continue reading →

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April 3, 2022 · 1:16 pm

The 1956 Generations: After and Before

Michael Roberts, reproducing  the GC Mendis Memorial Lecture in 1981** in his collection of essays within Exploring Confrontation as chapter 12, pp 297-314. ABSTRACT of the Article:  The electoral victory of the Mahajana Eksat Peramuna (MEP) led by the SLFP … Continue reading →

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March 3, 2024 · 12:27 pm

Michael Tissera’s Multi-Faceted Cricketing Career

Ravi Rudra, presenting a Q and A with Michael Tissera in mid-December 2023, entitled  “The Michael Tissera Interview – with Ravi Rudra“ *Tissera Brothers – Michael with older brother Vernon at the Thomian (Over 65) Fellowship at SSC on 17 … Continue reading →

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November 8, 2023 · 3:17 am

Sin-Bin for Verbal Intimidation in Cricket

Michael Roberts This essay was drafted on 25 April 2001 and appeared in print-form in Roberts, Essaying Cricket, Sri Lanka and Beyond, Colombo, Vijitha Yapa Publishers, 2006, pp. 98-102. The highlighting here is additional emphasis in 2023 by Roberts as … Continue reading →

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February 8, 2023 · 10:37 pm

Gamini Goonesena as a Legend

Hugh Karunanayake, presenting an old article from 2012 once again, with this title “Farewell to a Legend of Our Times” … with “Times” standing for the past inhabited by us octogenerians … & ….. the highlighting here being the intervention … Continue reading →

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September 12, 2025 · 12:39 am

Michael Tissera: Outstanding Cricketer & Gentleman

Ravi Rudra, whose preferred title is/was “Michael  Tissera 85. The Finest Gentleman Cricketer” … an item with a host of interesting  photographs that are not simple to place within one  site. As  a compromise there I have relied  on aid … Continue reading →

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May 30, 2022 · 2:33 pm

Face-to-Face in the Solomon Islands: Two Global Giants

Scott Ritter, in Global Times, 27 May 2022, where the title reads “Chinese diplomacy in South Pacific upends US-Australian security plans” The visit by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to the Solomon Islands on May 26, part of a 10-day … Continue reading →

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June 24, 2024 · 8:13 pm

For Muralidhar Reddy: Thoughts on Eelam War IV in late 2009

ONE: Preamble by Michael Roberts I was in Colombo from mid-April 2009 to early June and observed the local coverage of Eelam War IV at its bitter end. I was invited by Muralidhar Reddy[i] to write articles for Frontline on aspects of the … Continue reading →

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February 16, 2026 · 6:55 pm

TW Roberts Addresses Ceylon’s Political & Administrative Issues in the 1930s

T. W. Roberts …. was a Barbadian who served the British Empire in Ceylon from 1901 to circa 1935 before settling down in the Fort of Galle with his second wife, Miriam Perera (also spelt “Pereira”). Freed from government service, he … Continue reading →

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