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First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others
                             - Thomas a Kempis


 

War and peace ‘the aviation perspective’

On July 27, 2011, the flight bringing first aid to famine stricken Somalia landed in Mogadishu. It carried 10 tonnes of plumpy nuts enough to offer 3,500 children suffering from starvation a respite from death. According to the Economist, famine is declared when 30 percent of the children are actually malnourished,

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How traditional rice survives

According to the Mahavamsa, which tends to be reticent on the subject of food, the legendary King Vijaya ate rice given to him by the Yakkhini Kuveni and cooked by his followers. It has been the staple diet of the people of this island for all our recorded history and earlier. Rice seems first to have been cultivated in the Yangtze valley of China about 10,000 years ago.

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D. R. Wijewardene’s 126th birth anniversary:

Great patriot who rendered yeoman service for Independence

The secret of D. R. Wijewardene as a powerful newspaper proprietor was due to his high degree of discipline, dedication, devotion, commitment combined with loftiness of his character and versatility of his intellect. Further, no field of human endeavour was left untouched by the swaying amplitude of his imagination, encompassing sweep of his thought, felicity of his words and the indefatigable zeal of his actions. No wonder, he left an indelible impression in most of what he touched with rare dynamism and exemplary zeal,

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