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Facing natural disasters
Disasters are always most poignant, most chilling, when you know the terrain and the people. So I had stood on the sea wall in Galle, watching kids fly kites, a few months before the tsunami engulfed the south of Sri Lanka. Lakshman Kadirgamar - The quintessential Sri Lankan
It was a privilege to have known Lakshman Kadirgamar (LK) who was born on April, 12, 1932 and died on August 12, 2005. Ours was a brief but glorious friendship. Fittingly so, for in most matters, the LK I knew preferred quality to quantity.
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A Kashmiri earthquake survivor (C) carries a box on his shoulder as he walks in front of collapse buildings in an earthquake-hit area in Muzaffarabad, the capital of the Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, October 12. Around 2.5 million people left homeless by a mammoth quake which killed 23,000 in Pakistan need urgent help as winter approaches, country's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said. (AFP) |
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Culture & Arts: Sri Lankan talent breaks through to Asian high |
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