This is apropos a Business Recorder op-ed "By Banigala I sat down and wept" carried by the newspaper on Thursday. Profound. This is the only word that I can use in order to express my deeper fondness for Shabir Ahmed's articulation. His is his own style; or he employs a particular procedure by which he sends his message across. Here is his argumentation, for example: "Hopefully, the lot of the weaker classes will improve one day but today, clamped between inflation and fewer job opportunities, it is not easy for them to make ends meet. The number of out of school children that he talked about is growing as is the incidence of stunting."

Keep up the good work, Shabir.

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