Sellur K Raju’s Experiment To Curb Water Loss Due to Evaporation
By T.V. Antony Raj Five years ago, Sellur K Raju, the former Tamil Nadu Minister for Cooperatives came up with an ingenious idea to curb water loss due to evaporation at Tamil Nadu’s Vaigai dam. The...
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By T.V. Antony Raj In Vatican, during the impressive Canonization ceremony held in St Peter’s Basilica today, Sunday, May 15, 2022, His Holiness Pope Francis canonized Blessed Devasahayam Pillai, along...
View ArticleFormer Embezzler Is Now the Minister of Trade, Commerce, and Food Security in...
Kachchakaduge Nalin Ruwanjeewa Fernando (born May 8, 1973) is a Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament. Nalin Fernando got educated at Joseph Vaz College, Wennappuwa, Sri Lanka.. He has a...
View ArticleTaj Mahal – Part 1: Amir Timur, Founder of the Timurid Empire
. . By T. V. Antony Raj . The name “Taj Mahal” is of Persian/Arabic/Urdu (تاج محل) origin meaning “crown of palaces.” The Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built Taj Mahal, a white marble mausoleum in Agra,...
View ArticleThe Tamil Word “Machaan”!
By T.V. Antony Raj I doubt the word ‘Machaan‘ used by the Tamils all over the world and the word ‘Machaang‘ used by the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka derived from the Tamil word have any connection to the...
View ArticleWhen I Born, I Black.
By T.V. Antony Raj Former South African President Nelson Mandela, who served 27 years in prison for anti-apartheid activities, remarked, “I detest racialism because I regard it as a barbaric thing,...
View ArticleThe Writing Slate
By T. V. Antony Raj . Now in this computer age, everyone is trying their best to do away with paperwork. The technological advancements in writing aids have made work and life easier for all of us....
View ArticleIs the pH Range for Coronavirus Between 5.5 and 8.5?
By T.V. Antony Raj In December 2019, a highly transmissible and pathogenic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2), emerged and caused a pandemic of acute respiratory...
View ArticleThe Ordeal of the Bitter Water
A vital element of the Torah portion Naso (or Nasso), found in the Book of Numbers in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), concerns a treatise of the Talmud. It explains the ordeal of the bitter water, an...
View ArticleThe Tail of the Fibonacci Chameleon
.By T. V. Antony Raj Patterns in nature are visible regularities of form found in the natural world. These patterns recur in different contexts and can sometimes be modelled mathematically. Natural...
View ArticleThree Popular Toothpastes
I am now 82 years old. My memory is failing. I can’t recall the names of people I knew when I was young, but I do remember the household items we used then. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, soap was...
View ArticleSellur K Raju’s Experiment To Curb Water Loss Due to Evaporation
By T.V. Antony Raj Five years ago, Sellur K Raju, the former Tamil Nadu Minister for Cooperatives came up with an ingenious idea to curb water loss due to evaporation at Tamil Nadu’s Vaigai dam. The...
View ArticleSaint Devasahayam Pillai – The First Indian Layman Declared a Saint
By T.V. Antony Raj In Vatican, during the impressive Canonization ceremony held in St Peter’s Basilica today, Sunday, May 15, 2022, His Holiness Pope Francis canonized Blessed Devasahayam Pillai, along...
View ArticleFormer Embezzler Is Now the Minister of Trade, Commerce, and Food Security in...
Kachchakaduge Nalin Ruwanjeewa Fernando (born May 8, 1973) is a Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament. Nalin Fernando got educated at Joseph Vaz College, Wennappuwa, Sri Lanka.. He has a...
View ArticleThe Tamil Word “Machaan”!
By T.V. Antony Raj I doubt the word ‘Machaan‘ used by the Tamils all over the world and the word ‘Machaang‘ used by the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, derived from the Tamil word, have any connection to the...
View ArticleWhen I Born, I Black.
By T.V. Antony Raj Former South African President Nelson Mandela, who served 27 years in prison for anti-apartheid activities, remarked, “I detest racialism because I regard it as a barbaric thing,...
View ArticleThe Writing Slate
By T. V. Antony Raj . Now in this computer age, everyone is trying their best to do away with paperwork. The technological advancements in writing aids have made work and life easier for all of us....
View ArticleIs the pH Range for Coronavirus Between 5.5 and 8.5?
By T.V. Antony Raj In December 2019, a highly transmissible and pathogenic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2), emerged and caused a pandemic of acute respiratory...
View ArticleThe Ordeal of the Bitter Water
A vital element of the Torah portion Naso (or Nasso), found in the Book of Numbers in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), concerns a treatise of the Talmud. It explains the ordeal of the bitter water, an...
View ArticleThe Tail of the Fibonacci Chameleon
.By T. V. Antony Raj Patterns in nature are visible regularities of form found in the natural world. These patterns recur in different contexts and can sometimes be modelled mathematically. Natural...
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