Two More Articles

 Below are two more of my Articles published in the Island and the Ceylon Today Newspaper.

My First Newspaper Article

The article was titled 'Benefits of Home Schooling' published in the Island Newspaper. This is the first time an Article of mine was published in a main stream newspaper.

Mac OS Big Sur

Mac OS Big Sur Operating System has been so fast and sleek, I am having a faster experience in working with it.

What inspired me more is how efficiently Apple Inc. has been very considerate in giving a greater experience compared to its predecessors, so Thank You Apple Inc for giving this experience.

Poetry Time : Little Corona

A tiny little virus called Corona

Also called Covid-19 came from China

Started from a city named Wuhan

Causing trouble filled with harm

Right from China in the Eastern End

Continued to the Europe started its trend

Attcking the countries and continents alike

Challenging to world to start a fight 

Now its leading in the mighty USA

The whole world keeps mum , What can they say

While the naughty little Corona loves attacking someone each day

For Goodness sake Covid 19 please go away

Lanka Government Cloud

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An informative Interview with the ICTA Chief by Business Mirror, Cloud Computing Enthusiasts will be happy to know that the Sri Lankan Government has its own Cloud Computing Infrastructure - Lanka Government Cloud (LGC Ver.2)

Writing in Pencil

With the advent of the Corona Virus. I realised that there was a stock of pencils at home and only a few pens, which were already in use, at this hour of scarcity I decided that the wisest thing to do is to use a pencil.

You can't replace the value of Ink with Carbon but after writing with a pencil, I started looking at my notes and writing in a new paradigm.

Though it looked slightly primitive, the boldness in letters did give it a striking difference compared to the Pen.

In addition to that it brought in lot of nostaligia.

Why is Self Isolation Difficult for Sri Lankans

With the advent of the Corona virus. Curfew has been imposed in Sri Lanka, to encourage people to stay at home in order to prevent the spreading of this disease. 

Curfew is not a new word for Sri Lankans, we faced it in the 1970’s - 1980’s during the Southern Insurgencies, Then again in the 1980’s - 1990’s during the 30 year war. Once again in last April during the Easter Sunday attack.

Despite being used to such conditions, Self Isolation has been a difficult or rather annoying for the inhabitants in this Island. 

A Corona patient recently discovered by the health authorities, has been travelling around his village despite warnings given by the government to self isolate, so the health authorities had no other option but to put the entire area into self isolation for the safety of that village, only to find out that a family member of that patient had been the next victim. 

The Sri Lanka police has to make a special effort to stop people from loitering along the streets, as some people started carrying medical prescription with their humble motorbikes or trishaws just for the sake of travelling, which is a rather strange phenomenon despite the Government implementing a scheme to provide rations and medications to the door step.

Why has self isolation been a problem ?

The immediate answer one may give is poverty, which maybe true to an extent, as people living out of meagre earnings by doing day jobs have been the worse affected. However the truth is slightly different.

Sri Lankans aren’t very efficient introverts, though you get a few who wouldn’t mind it, the inhabitants are almost always community driven, from tenements in Colombo to communities in the villages to workers in trade zones, people tend to move in clusters.

Even Agricultural work is done in groups. There has been a custom in Sri Lanka known as ‘Attang’ where people who have finished working in their fields would voluntarily work in fields of their fellow villagers without any pay, again grouping of individuals.

Month of April brings the traditional New Year among the Sinhala and Tamil communities, where traditional games are been organised and people in villages flock in large groups. So we are a community driven Country

It is already evident that one of the ways to prevent the spread of this disease would be to self isolate as human beings are the carriers of  this unseen enemy, yet with great reluctance people stay in their own homes until it reaches a breaking point, which had shown some increase in domestic violence in the Country.

However after going through several other South Asian media I realised that this may be a common occurrence in our sub continent, and if someone comes up with a solution to motivate self isolation among these inhabitants, it would be a better option than reprimanding them.