If you use the Internet fairly regularly, you are among the first 1.3 billion in human history to have Internet access. There are of course a couple of billion people on Earth who are more preoccupied with survival at a more basic level – struggling to educate their children, busy trying to escape conflict zones with their lives intact, refugees and those without means to feed their families – than to worry about Internet access.
They told me before they left, that they would bring back the gold. But that turns out to have been a slight miscalculation – they've brought back three.
Soul Sounds has had a very busy year. The wins at the 5th World Choir Games at Graz, Austria follow on the heels of several concerts – both in Sri Lanka and abroad – that saw the choir garner much acclaim.