Sam's literary pursuits ....
Hi Guys!Just thought of sharing with you some of my published essays in the local Daily News in recent years. I wrote these in the year 2004 while working in government service, and you will discern that I had a lot of free time to do these pieces just to keep away the boredom of observing the passing hour! These subjects I chose with great care, and may interest some of you guys. One essay (3A) by Rohan Jayawardana refers to my article on Troy and serves as a sequel.These essays are all available for download from the Web Online Daily News by simply clocking in the title and name of the author. Hope you guys will be able to see the photos/pictures which sometimes doesn't appear unless the original is downloaded. Anyway, good luck and enjoy your read.
Luv always
Sam
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PUBLISHED WORKS: FIROZE SAMEER
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
June-96: Genealogical Table of Sri Lankan Muslims: Family Tree Data. Vol.I (with Fazli Sameer).
(ISBN 955-9470-00-0: Colombo: Authors, 1996: Library of Congress Control No. 98917268): 143pp.
Asian Genealogy Website http://www.rootsweb.org/~asiagw
Nov-99: dOSSIEr COREA: A portfolio on crime
(ISBN 955-96740-0-5: Colombo: Author, 1999: Library of Congress Control No. 99953012): 103pp.
Apr 3-4, 1999: Report of the 1998 Gratiaen Prize Committee for Creative Writing:
Reference to dOSSIEr COREA (Weekend Express p-23)
22.12.99: Insights into Criminality:
Review by AC Alles, former Actg Chief Justice on dOSSIEr COREA (Daily News p-17)
20.02.00: That Journalism Course at the ‘Poly’ by Kirthie Abeyesekera.
Reference to dOSSIEr COREA (The Island p-6).
08.01.05: Mohanraj’s Apsaras Music Group - A Profile. Vol. 1: The first thirty years: 1975-2004 (16,322-words: Unpublished)
DIRECTORIES
01.05.97: Sam’s Directory 97:
English Medium Royal College 1961-Group & Royal Primary School 1955-60.
10.03.00: Royal College 61-Group Directory (Millennium Reunion).
11.01.06: Royal College English Medium 61-Group Email/Mobile Phone Directory.
12.04.06: Royal College 61-Group Email Directory.
NEWSPAPER PUBLICATIONS
21.01.75: KPS Menon: The American Language (Daily News back-page).
05.05.79: Death of Double-O Seven: The Life of Ian Fleming, Creator of James Bond
(Observer: Saturday Magazine p-9).
20.05.79: Getting Away from it all Forever: Studies in Suicide (WEEKEND p-?).
10.04.80: The Jackal and the July Plot: Assassination Attempts on Gen.Charles de Gaulle and Adolf Hitler (with Qureisha Nizar) (Honey p-13).
23.03.84: Stoning to Death and Islamic Law: Death or Lashing? (OP-ED: Sun p-6).
28.08.87: A Poser for Future Security: Grenades Blast in New Parliament (Sun p-6).
26.09.87: Recollections of the SWRD Assassination (Daily News p-30)
28.01.88: ’62 Coup and Upsurge of Indiscipline: Officers’ Plot to Overthrow the Ceylon Government
(OP-ED: Sun p-6).
04.02.88: JR- The Last Man In: Cabinet of The Rt Hon. DS Senanayake, PC (Daily News p-4)
27.03.88: The T-56: A Terrorist’s Best Friend (WEEKEND p-9).
22.05.88: A Day at the Montessori: How Nabila and the Tiny Tots Learn Their Basics (WEEKEND p-20).
04.06.89: Lanka’s Indo-China Syndrome: The Difficult Task to Achieve Peace (WEEKEND p-6).
09.07.89: Sri Lanka’s Deadly July: Fateful Month in a Nation’s Calendar (WEEKEND p-8).
12.03.90: The Wizard of Scoutcraft: Royal College’s Brevet Lieut-Colonel MKJ Cantlay, e.d., JP. Letters from Laki Dissanayaka (Daily News p-15).
06.05.90: Innovative Style in le Carre’s Espionage: John le Carre’s 12th Best Seller, The Russia House
(Sunday Times p-15).
14.07.91: At 80, it’s Travel, Typewriter & Tennis for AC Alles: The Complete Works of a Former
Judge of the Supreme Court & Actg Chief Justice (Sunday Times p-13).
22.09.91: Apsaras Takes Wing: Music Prodigy Muthuswamy Mohanraj’s Tamil Orchestra
(Sunday Observer p-12).
13.03.80: Lieut Col. Cantlay turns 80 (Daily News p-7).
22.05.94: The Origin of Tips: Former Hotelier Bert F Cramer Speaks to AF Sameer (Sunday Times p2).
23.01.00: Mathew Peiris: From Mysticism to Murder.
Observations on AC Alles’s book: Vol.12 Famous Criminal Cases of Sri Lanka series (Colombo, Aitken Spence, 1999 2nd Ed: ISBN 955-95203-4-2) (The Island p-12)
26.07.92: Doctors and the Law by AC Alles: Commenting on a section of the review (The Sunday Island p-6).
03.03.04: Reading British - Five famous modern authors:Ian Fleming/ James Hadley Chase/John Lé Carre/ Frederick Forsyth/JK Rowling
(Daily News: Art Scope: p-vi).
09.06.04: Hollywood movie springs from Homer’s epics: The Iliad/The Odyssey/Virgil’s The Aeneid/ Quintus of Smyrna’s The War at Troy.
(Daily News: Art Scope: pp-v & vi)
30.06.04: Sequel on Homer’s Epics by Rohan Jayawardana: Of the Aeneid, Caesar Augustus, Jesus and Zeus (Daily News: Art Scope: p-vi).
21.07.04: Horror of Hannibal Lecter
Thomas Harris’s complete works/movies: Black Sunday/Red Dragon/The Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal
(Daily News: Art Scope: p-vii).
13.10.04: A tribute to Gamini Fonseka: Sinhala movie idol & director/Statesman.
(Daily News: Art Scope: p-vii).
27.10.04: Brando’s Godfather revisited: Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy.
(Daily News: Art Scope: p-iii).
24.11.04: Mohanraj sustains music tradition: Apsaras moves into third decade.
(Daily News: Art Scope: p-viii).
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
15.01.98: Flesh-eating (Daily News p-20).
28.01.98: Street names (Daily News p-20).
20.02.98: Vehicle Registration Nos (Daily News p-18).
29.12.99: Chandrika’s golden chance (Daily News p-14).
APPRECIATIONS
05.09.87: Abdul Wahab Mohamed Ghouse (Daily News p-12).
13.09.88: R Muthuswamy (The Island p-7)
23.02.89: Mohamed Noor Deen (Daily News p-10).
11.09.91: MIM Sahill (Daily News p-11).
13.01.02: Rohan Hapugalle (The Sunday Island p-13).
13.01.03: AC Alles (Daily News p-6).
UPDATE ON PUBLISHED WORKS: FIROZE SAMEER
NEWSPAPER PUBLICATIONS
(1) 27.08.06: The Other Side of the Sathasivam Case
A review on A Murder in Ceylon by Prof. Ravindra Fernando,
MBBS, MD, FCCP, FCGP, FRCP(Lond), FRCP(Glasgow), FRCP(Edin.), FRCPath(UK), DMJ(Lond), Senior Professor of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Faculty of medicine, University of Colombo.
(Colombo, Vijitha Yapa Publications, June-2006: ISBN 955-1266-20-X: First Edition, Hardcover 480pp). [The Sunday Times, p4 (Books)]
Also refer to:
(a) 29.07.06: Daily News p12
Expert Testimony in Sensational Murder Case Analysed:
Review by CR de Silva, PC, Solicitor General (Attorney General since 07.04.07).
(b) 25.07.07: Daily News p41
Courtesy The Sri Lankan Anchorman, Toronto Canada, June, 2007: (http://thesrilankananchorman.
com/client/NewsDetails.
aspx?ID=532).
Fascinating Book on Sensational Trial:
Review by Sir Christopher Ondaatje, OC, CBE.
(2) 30.06.07: JonBenet Ramsey – A Heartbreaking Tragedy
A review on The Death of Innocence: The Untold Story of JonBenet’s
Murder and How its Exploitation Compromised the Pursuit of Truth by
John and Patsy Ramsey (U.S., Thomas Nelson, Inc., Mar-2000. ISBN 0-7852-6816-2: Hardcover 396pp)) [Daily News, p23 (Book Reviews)]
17 March, 2008
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UPDATE-2 ON PUBLISHED WORKS: FIROZE SAMEER
NEWSPAPER PUBLICATIONS
25.05.08: He Lit a Flame That Thrilled Audiences Through the Ages: Ian Fleming Birth Centenary - 28.05.08. [The Sunday Times, p4].
20.07.08: Hollywood Plots Hitler Thriller: The 20 July Plot. [The Sunday Times, p4].
27.07.08: That Massacre Upon Massacre: Black July, 1983, 25th Anniversary. [The Sunday Times, p4].
26 October, 2008
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