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Riaz Hassan: Straddling the World …. An Ecumenical Scholar for All Ages–by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis I met Riaz Hassan for the first time as one of the keynote speakers at a conference organised by Neelan Tiruchelvam in Sri Lanka circa 1974 (details forgotten) when I was teaching in the History Department at Peradeniya University and Riaz was at an university in Singapore. It was the best of serendipity (a word deriving perhaps from Serendib aka Sri Lanka) that I found him attached to Flinders University when I moved to the Anthropology Department at University in 1977. Not merely that. Riaz and Selva lived at the southern end of Fullarton Road just down the hill and a literal stone’s throw from Belair where our family settled down. The Hassans then moved to another spot up the hill in Belair. Since I also chose to play cricket, soccer and rugger for Flinders ...