Wednesday’s Wanderer
>Kumar Sangakkara —> >Greenland
Over 10,000 runs in Test cricket. Even more runs in One Day Internationals. And not to mention his role behind the wickets, accounting for innumerable dismissals. So when Kumar Sangakkara announced his retirement from T20s, saying that the current World Cup will be his last, an entire nation was jolted.
And when he added that the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand will be his last WC in the ODI format, the shock was only increased many fold. Add to it the fact that Mahela Jayawardene has also decided to quit T20 cricket, Sri Lankan fans are now eager to see these veterans in action in the shortest format of the game.
This tear drop shaped island off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent has a documented history that spans over 3000 years. Sri Lanka, with its strategic location, has therefore been of importance throughout.
A diverse country with a number of religions, languages and ethnic groups, Sri Lanka’s main economic sector continues to be agriculture. Apart from tea export, rice production and other agricultural products, tourism and clothing are also becoming vital contributors to the country's economy.
Agriculture is probably one of the oldest systems that human beings have had in place. The cultivation of plants, animals and other forms of food, all come under agriculture. It is even believed that civilizations were an off-shoot of the development of agriculture as it created a surplus of food, thereby allowing for more leisure time.
Agriculture in Greenland is supposed to have picked up from the Middle Ages, when the Europeans started settling these areas. An autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, Greenland is located between the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans.
Did you know that even though geographically Greenland remains a part of North America, it has now been culturally and politically associated with Europe for more than thousand years? Also, despite being the world’s largest islands in terms of area, it continues to be the least densely populated country in the world.
With the last stable bit of Greenland ice becoming unstable, the population density might actually become worse. A study in the latest edition of ‘Nature Climate Change’ suggests that melting of this ice would lead to rising sea levels.
So the path that we have traversed today is:
Kumar Sangakkara —> Sri Lanka —> Agriculture —> Greenland
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