Sripathy JayamahaI am no scientist like Isaac

Newton nor a philosopher like Bertrand Russel.

However, there are a few wonderful happenings in the planet that we live in, that baffle me. Maybe somewhat silly of me. Evolution of men ends with the Neandherthal Man. Development of man stops. Then, suddenly the modern, intelligent, hand-some man came in, civiliza-tion began. How? Why?

Man has studied the uni-verse. About the twinkling stars in the sky and the plan-ets that orbit around the sun, while rotating on its own axis? How? Why? Our earth

take twenty four hours for the latter and three hundred and sixty five days around the sun giving us night and day. Also a year respectively, fascinating. Noble Newton showed us why objects fall onto mother earth. But why does everything that goes up come down? A world with-out gravity. Planets, satel-lites, meteors, jumbo jets, flying all over. The sky will be dark with swirling objects. Why gravity? Why an ozone layer to save living beings from dehydration why should there be the space between the earth and the sun com-prise of different layers as discovered by man? Thunder

and lightning occur at the same time. The speed of light and the speed of sound travel at different speeds. Why? we see lightning, then can thunder be far behind. Why? Still its fantastic. How is there a 4 C layer of water below the mighty masses of snow? Fish and other aquatic life live in it, why? The sea-sons in temperate regions. Autumn, leaves turn colour, begins to fall. Trees go to sleep. Animals go to sleep, the hedgehog, some begin to stock their abodes with food.

Winter, hibernation till spring. Why? How? What if the rhinocerous, hippopota-mus, elephant and the whale

were flesh eating? Where would we humans, and deni-zens of the sea and land be. Just think. Whales, shark, sea serpents, jelly fish swim-ming up stream to keep com-pany with the gatakimbula.

A nightmare. Have you seen the hik-meeya (white mouse) being pursued by cats. No. The former is slow. Has a bad taste. Always on the ground. It does not become the prey of cats.

But not so, the roof climbing, swift Rat-tus rattus. A cat's delight. Why had the land lubber being spared? How? The centepede is swift, could creep into any crevice in a second. Succulent meal for the birds. The milli-pede- hakaralla is very slow. Curls up when disturbed. Birds end terrestrial cock birds give it a wide birth. It happily roams about. Only humans harm them. Tell me why?

Please tell me as to what the world could

be had the mighty anaconda and the python had poison glands in keeping with their size? Or the common garandiya or rat-snake had poison glands. Catastrophic.

Human beings, from may be their infant stage to dot-age have an affinity to sweet food. Unless of course, the pancreas goes on the war path. No one likes bitter food. Same with animals and birds. They cannot be even conditioned to lap up bitter food. Why? How?

The hatched fingerlings of the salmon swimming down fresh water streams to the sea. They traverse the chilly seas of the North. After around four years, the gravid female returns to the same river stream that brought them to the ocean as finger-lings, swim upstream with-out food. Lay eggs, return exhausted and undernour-ished. Never to return to the sea. They become prey to other predators and human salmon hunters. Now, why the same source of fresh water. Scientists have tagged them. But they have never been able to tell the world why?

Massive earth tremors that brought desolation to mil-

lions. The tremors took place in the ocean bed. What if they had taken place on land. Mount Everest, Antar-tica, Arizona, Florida, The Siberian wastes or in the Inland Sees like the Dead

Sea, Caspian Sea, Black Sea or in the Sahara. Unthinka-ble. Our lovely scientists can tell us why. But how end when ? That is the question.

Yes! We learnt about all this from cradle to grave.

Beautiful with all these unan-swered questions, I still believe that we, as humans, and all other living creatures and nature can live in har-mony and peace in our lovely planet.

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Muslim Ladies College (MLC) Colombo organised a Teacher Training Programme at Ramada Hotel Colombo recently. A lot of teachers from MLC participated at the seminar. Minister of Education Bandula Gunawardena was the chief guest and distributed certifi-cates to the participated teachers. Principal of the MLC, Dr. Hajar-jhan Munsoor, Consultant,Ministry of Education Dr. Lalitha Batu-vithage and Deputy Director of Value Education M L Ahamed Lebbe conducted the training programme. Deputy Director of Education,P M Illapperuma and Hambantota Lanka Salt Limited Director M H M Niyas were also present at this seminar.

MLC Teacher Training Programme

Minister of Education Bandula Gunawardena addressing the gathering

Staff Mrs. Puviraj receiving the participating certificate from Minister

Staff Mrs. Najumuna Farook receiving the participating certifi-cate from Minister

Teachers at the seminar

Principal Dr. Hajarjhan Munsoor presenting a memento to the Education Minister Bandula Guna-wardena

Balloth Ekka Ba, one of the most popu-lar stage dramas written and directed by Ravindra Ariyarathne which is loved by many audiences for its hilarious touch and showed around many countries, will be staged once again on Saturday (October 6) at the Young Men's Buddhist Association (YMBA), Borella at 3.30 and 6.30 pm.

The drama will be staged with a host of popular artist such as Wijaya Nandasiri, Roshan Pilapitiya, Gihan Fernando, Kumara Thirimadura and Anusha Dissan-ayake.

Music will be by Shantha Peiris, back ground creations by Luvoline Vandawall and stage management will be by Asoka De Soyza and Shantha Udayakumara. The costumes will be designed by Gihan Fer-nando and Demal Fernando. The lighting effects will be by Upali Weerasinghe and make up will be by Saman Hemarathna

which will create an unforgettable visual experience.

Balloth Ekka Ba is produced by Asle J.Lanka Computer Training Institute and Jude Srimal is the main organizer of the drama.

Tickets are available at Sarasavi book shop - Nugegoda, Sadeepa book shop - Borella, Salaka Senkada - Town hall and at theatre gate.

Balloth Ekka Ba at YMBA