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Sunday September 16, 2007
Vol. 42 - No 16
 
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Being the change VERTISTMENTS

Moving towards bringing about change in their communities, this is exactly what a certain group of young people are attempting to do. Stimulating thought and action amongst fellow young people, this entity is attempting to make Sri Lankan youth proactive and sensitive to issues related to them, in society.

 
Holding on to the fairies

Although the prevalence of child prostitution in Sri Lanka is quite a 'public secret' these days, hardly anything is being done about it, on either a social or policy level. "Having learnt a lot about the subject while working on a pitch for a social responsibility campaign on child sex tourism in 2005, I thought I just had to do something and since the one thing I could do was write, that's just what I thought I'd do," says poet, actor, singer and creative writer – Brandon Ingram. And thus, he started work on the book in early 2006.

 
Click click
Digital electronics are creeping into more and more of the everyday gadgets and tools we use and it has already taken over everything from typewriters to alarm clocks. Modern car engines and even their brake systems are synchronized and manipulated by computer chips. In less than a decade, digital cameras have all but completely replaced their analogue ancestors, and thus it is worth exploring the digital take-over of our tools.
 

   
   
 
 

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