You may or may not have heard about this brilliant poet so as an introduction, let me quote George Russell’s words about Gibran: “I do not think the East has spoken with so beautiful a voice since the Gitanjali of Rabindranath Tagore as in The Prophet of Kahlil Gibran”.

Although renowned as a poet he was also a painter through which he tried to communicate his impeccable wisdom about life and its nature. Gibran’s thoughts and paintings are so profound that they help us to see through many superficial facets of life and the materiality that covers the profoundness of nature.

Among his many glorious writings are ‘The Prophet’ which speaks of marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy, sorrow, bliss, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crimes and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self knowledge, teaching, friendship, good and evil, prayer, beauty, pleasure, death and you name it!

Born in Lebanon in 1883, he migrated to the United States with his family in 1894 where he would spend most of his life until his death in New York in 1931. Having an authorship for over 25 books, Gibran soon earned popularity not only as a poet and an artist but also as a prophet due to the nature of his writings.

He often aims directly at the expression of spiritual inner life of man but what makes him so popular is his simplicity. Any mundane person could read Gibran’s works and perfectly understand what he means with a message that has smoothly pierced through to the very bottom of one’s heart. So, in modern day terms, we could even call him a ‘silent killer’ in a sense. His intensions are also clearly demonstrated through his writings. He wanted to bring about a spiritual awakening in the man kind. He wanted to direct and guide people to see beyond the bliss in to understanding life in its true nature and as of today, we can see that he surely did accomplish his task. Although so many years have flown behind after his demise, he is one poet, a philosopher and an artist that is truly cherished up to day.

Memon community is widely spread around the world. They are well-known for trading and are renowned as rich businessmen. In this brief article, we will explore the Memon community in Sri Lanka and their customs.

Among hundreds of social and business networking sites, there are only few standup for quality and classy service. After the social and business-networking boom, there is only handful of survivors catering the Internet users today. These web sites cater different user segments such as teenagers and young adults, senior citizens, work at home professionals etc. In this article, we are reviewing Cambridge Who’s Who service briefly.

Cambridge Who’s Who can be identified as a networking facilitator for executives, professionals and entrepreneurs. It acts as a directory for above categories and has somewhat strict conditions for membership. Candidates will have to go through an evaluation process before they get their membership. That may be one method for ensuring high quality profiles on members so that, members can benefit from each other. As any other service, Cambridge Who’s Who too, comes with a membership fee.

Cambridge Who’s Who publishes the member biographies in three mediums as hardcover, online and CD-ROM. These three mediums are offered targeting different reference options for members. But when it comes to up-to-date information, online directory should be the ideal medium for using Cambridge Who’s Who because with the fast growing member community, hardcover and CD-ROM will quickly be outdated.

Currently there are about two hundred thousand biographies of members spread across a number of countries. Although Cambridge Who’s Who is an international directory, the majority of members are from countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and England. If you are willing to network with other professionals and entrepreneurs to enhance your business contacts, to get a wider customer base for your product or service etc., you can try out Cambridge Who’s Who on a one year membership and then extend it, if it works out for you.