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.

There was a tremendous outpouring of support.

Sometimes the bodies mingled by the fire are differing enough as to fixidity and volatility , and yet are so combined by the first operation of the fire , that itself does scarce afterwards separate them

The giant was silhouetted against the door.