- Sharif Alam writes on Jim Grant's first visit to Bangladesh - 1980 which would be of interest to many of us here who had known and worked with Sharif in Bangladesh at that time.
- Jonathan Crick's "heartbreaking story of loss and grief from Gaza that At least 17,000 children are unaccompanied or separated from their families strikes a yet another note of alarm
- Niloufar Pourzand shares the link to the original article on Al Jazeera carrying an update in naming 11,500 of the Children known to have been killed in Gaza up to 2 February
- Dawn Clancey shares the link to the original article carried on Pass Blue on UNICEF effort to clean up the garbage and human waste in Gaza
- Tom McDermottt shares a link to the original report carried by AP News along with a summary of the article on Israel building buffer zone by bulldozing buildings 1km into Gaza, which adds to the note of alarm on the escalating conflict.
- Can the US and UNRWA Donors 'Walk Back from the Brink'? Tom McDermottt, shares links to articles in NY Times and Washington Post that make it clear how the political blunders and bureaucratic wrangling have led to a disastrous situation for aid to Gaza.
- Detlef Palm's Real Cash for Real People provides a cogent argument on why Cash for People has become a staple policy advice for government-run social protection programmes.
- Ramesh Shreshtha's article on Future of Development provides a thought proking perspective.
- Ken Gibbs ventures on a new series: Time and time again, Part I - The Simeon Smithard Clock
- Richard Morgan, our bard, features this week with Pursued by a Bear: A Poem
- And Fouad Kronfol adds to the Music - For a change of tunes with his link to the original sirtaki Zorbas.
There is much more for you to scroll through, including the lively debates that have been generated around your contributions. Let us, however, continue in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, which remains immortalised by these words:
"With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in.......":
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