From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.

But there seemed to be not a whiff of life left in either of the unfortunates.

[…] yet even he could not stand against that sin when temporarily infected with the poison of Bibliophobia.

Zeuxis the curious picturer painted a boy holding a dish full of grapes in his hand