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The Extraordinary Alagu Subramaniam

A Tribute penned by his grandniece Premila Thurairatnam: one initially published  in THE CEYLANKAN  magazine Nov issue &#;&#;&#;&#;&#;.. whilean abbreviated version appeared in the Daily Mirror newspaper (21 Nov ) – Revised and published in ‘Closing Time’ book&#;. while some highlighting has been added here by The Editor, Thuppahi

Alagu Subramaniam (–) was a barrister-at-law, short story, radio script writer and playwright who hailed from Jaffna. His father was a judge and his grandfather a literary personage. Alagu had successfully combined in himself, his father’s legal career and his grandfather’s literary genius.

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Alagu was a prominent figure in London’s Bloomsbury literary circle¹ in the s and 40s. He wrote short stories that capture the behaviour of people whether it be Ceylonese during the colonial era or contemporary English life during and prior to the war. These stories were broadcast on the home and overseas services of the BBC. His short story ‘The Mathematician’ has been compared for its good-humoured raillery with one of the greatest writers of short fiction in history, Anton Chekhov². More recently in , Senior Prof. E.A Gamini Fonseka, of Ruhuna university wrote a paper on the story ‘Professional