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The Suntharalingam Family’s Journey: Sri Lanka to Australia Chellappah Suntharalingam Source:Thuppahis Matthew Westwood, in The Weekend Australian Review,  5-6 January 2019, where the title is  “Counting and Cracking: a family’s journey” … with some snaps and a partial bibliography added by The Editor, Thuppahi In the complicated and at times bitterly divided history of Sri Lanka in the 20th century, one man’s story may be emblematic of the nation’s changing fortunes. C. Suntharalingam was born in 1895 into a Tamil family, the son of a poor farmer. The boy was a whiz at maths. Sent to a boarding school in Jaffna, he went on to study at the universities of London and Oxford. Belvoir’s Eamon Flack  and playwright S. Shakthidaran –Pic Hollie adams Like other educated Tamils he sought “trousered employment” in the colonial public service. He was called to the bar to practise law and later entered politics, serving a term as minister for ...