Sustainable human settlement

Since 1985, the United Nations celebrates ‘World Habitat Day’ on the first Monday in October, of each year to focus attention on the state of human settlements and the basic right to adequate shelter for all has been celebrated on several themes by the UN Habitat. This year the ‘World Habitat Day’ will be celebrated on the theme of ‘Better City Better Life’. The United Nations has chosen this theme to raise awareness on quality of human settlements.

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On journeys of W G Weerasinghe

They say a man roams the world in search of the truth and comes home to find it. This is basically an observation that things are never as far as we might think they are or are led to believe they are. Distance is erroneously defined and measures in terms of miles or kilometres, flight-time or road hours, number of coffee/tea stops, night-stops and fuel-fill-ups. These 'real' things do exist of course but when it comes to truth-elicitation the perspective and experience that travel gives can be adequately compensated by a more conscious engagement with the hear and now and the physical-social vatapitaava or environment.

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Al-Haj M M Mustapha - Tenth death anniversary :

Political colossus in Eastern Province

The late Al-Haj M M Mustapha who rode like a colossus in the political arena of the Eastern Province for well over three decades passed away on October 3, 2000. Since he shunned himself from politics for quite sometime the younger generation especially those who are below 40 years may not be aware of the signal role played by him in politics.

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