A new vision is vital to prevent infant desertion

Imagine being abandoned in the street as a baby by your mother. It's a terrible way to come into this world, but for many abandoned new-born babies, it's a stark reality. Technically, such infants are called foundlings. In 1990, one of my team members came across a foundling abandoned as an infant in a public phone booth in the Capital.

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Vignettes:

Is philosophy what philosophers do?

What is philosophy? Who is a philosopher? Such questions still remain to be answered satisfactorily. However, there have been a string of philosophers starting from Socrates, Plato and Aristotle who lived in the sixth century BC up to Bertrand Russell and Jiddu Krishnamurti,

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Thorns on the Side:

Facing the tsunami threat

If you are one of the thousands of Sri Lankans who experienced the tremor - and the threat of a tsunami - last week, memories of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami would have kept you literally on your toes.

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