There is nothing wrong about worrying

I have a niece who was once a habitual worry-wart. Or, in simple terms , an inveterate worrier. If she didn’t have something substantial to agitate about, she would inflate a minor issue. She could lie awake for hours ruminating about what results she would get from a critical medical test,

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Vignettes

Are we featherless bipeds?

Generally philosophers are a queer lot. They try to define almost everything in life in an abstract way. In ancient Athens, the celebrated philosopher Plato’s followers once decided to find an answer to the perennial question: What is a human being?

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Thorns on the Side

A nod for prevention

The island-wide campaign to destroy mosquito breeding grounds, planned for this weekend, is a most welcome move given the prevalence of dengue in Sri Lanka, apart from some cases of malaria. The two-day program spearheaded by the Presidential Task Force on dengue and the Ministry of Health should be a precursor to regular programs of this nature.

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