Peace for the World

Peace for the World
First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Thursday, October 17, 2013

by Tisaranee Gunasekara

“….a society based on nothing but selfishness and greed is not a society at all, but a state of war of the strong against the weak”

Charles Simic (Bleak House – New York Review of Books - 16.10.2013)
( October 17, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lanka is becoming a hungrier place. According to the 2013 Global Hunger Index, Sri Lanka’s hunger-score is 15.6. This marks a worrying increase from the 2012 score of 14.4; it is also the highest hunger-score since 20071.