A meaningful Christmas

Every year, around this time, most people’s thoughts turn to Christmas. It is the time when professing Christians are supposed to focus on Jesus Christ. After all, it is the ‘Christ-mass’ season! Traditionally, Christmas is thought to be a wonderful time, with its focus on giving, family togetherness, beautiful music and decorations, feasting on special foods and singing Christmas carols.

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Vignettes

Learning poems by heart

In this advanced Digital Age where knowledge is available on the click of a button, only old blokes appear to appreciate poetry. If you ask a modern day student whether he reads poetry, he will want to know why he should do so. In fact, a college student asked his lecturer, “What is poetry?” the lecturer repeated Robert Frost’s classic definition: “Poetry is the kind of thing poets write.”

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Thorns on the Side

Towards a better bus service

The Government’s plan to import and deploy an additional 2,000 buses for the Sri Lanka Transport Board is commendable. A sum of Rs.1,000 million has been allocated for this endeavour. The SLTB’s fleet is nowhere near that of the private sector, which seemingly has a commanding lead in the passenger transport sector. This will help augment the SLTB fleet to some extent.

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