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Janaka Jayawickrama

Disastrous Disasters – Again! Some Thoughts about Sri Lankan Experiences on Cyclone and Floods

Disastrous Disasters – Again! Some Thoughts about Sri Lankan Experiences on Cyclone and Floods

Sri Lanka and its people are not new to natural hazards. Droughts, floods, landslides, epidemics and many other hazards are standard features of the recent history of the Island. The current predicament of the country due to Cyclone Ditwah, which unleashed catastrophic flooding and landslides, is the latest disaster people

Charity Unmasked: A Closer Look at the Humanitarian Reset

Charity Unmasked: A Closer Look at the Humanitarian Reset

“The United Nations was not created to take us into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.” The above quotation is claimed to be from Dag Hammarskjold, the second Secretary General of the UN from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. This quotation

A Sri Lankan Paradox: Our Country is a Reflection of Ourselves

A Sri Lankan Paradox: Our Country is a Reflection of Ourselves

There was once a man that’d been wounded by a poisoned arrow. And when his family wanted to find a doctor to help him, the man said no. The mortally wounded man said that before any doctor tried to help him, he wanted to know who had attacked him.