Sri Lanka, March 21 -- Sri Lanka's national legislature voluntarily delayed its sittings to give leadership to the national initiative for a weekly sacrificed working day on Wednesdays, begun this week as a fuel-saving measure. The nation's schoolchildren have, en masse, to forego all their educational tours for the indeterminate future for the same reason. The transport industry and many other industries and the entire agriculture sector, all now face painful contraction as the energy crisis worsens.South Asians & Diaspora

Sri Lanka has acted fast and early in response to the energy crisis now sweeping the world with, as usual, the worst affected billions being in the impoverished Global South. This country was the third in South Asia a...