Three 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...
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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 the 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,...
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...
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 ArticleSons of Donald Trump Love to Hunt
By T. V. Antony Raj . . Brothers Donald John Trump Jr (born December 31, 1977) and Eric Frederick Trump (born January 6, 1984) are the first and the third sons of former US President Donald J Trump and...
View ArticleDonald J. Trump, the “Walking Eagle”
. By T. V. Antony Raj . Donald J. Trump, the outgoing President of the United States had thought of running for president in 1988, 2004, and 2012, and for Governor of New York in 2006 and 2014, but...
View ArticleIts performance that Counts!
By T.V. Antony Raj. .A priest dies on All Souls Day and is waiting in the queue at Heaven’s Gate. In front of him stands a guy, wearing a loud shirt, leather jacket and jeans, and sporting sunglasses....
View ArticleThe Secret of His energy!
By T.V. Antony Raj . . After the virile old man celebrated his 100th birthday, a reporter asked him the secret of his energy. Old man: “Well, after getting married, my wife and I agreed that whoever...
View ArticleThe Pandemic President of Havelocks!
Reproduced from https://community.lk By Tasha Devotta .. Thusitha Peiris, President of the Havies Club, Colombo. .At 106 years of age, Havelocks is one of Colombo’s older rugby clubs. Over the years it...
View ArticleI was Born In 1941
. ..By T.V. Antony Raj. I was born in 1941. In the 1940s most of us were born at home. Our mothers fed us at any time of the day, and when we cried. We did not sleep in cribs; we slept with our...
View ArticleAre Alkaline Foods the Panacea for Coronavirus?
.By T.V. Antony Raj. A couple of days ago I saw a message on a Tamil TV news channel that said the pH value of the novel coronavirus ranges from 5.5 to 8.5? It also said that consumption of alkaline...
View ArticleAfter Shaking Hands…
.By T.V. Antony Raj. The Albanian proverb, “After shaking hands with a Greek, start counting your fingers” reminds me of the song “Dread and the Fugitive Mind” written by guitarist and vocalist Dave...
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