The idea is mine, but the image is yours (Google Nano Banana) - “Dream denied.”

 

The idea is mine, but the image is yours (Google Nano Banana) - “Catch of the day—if you can afford it.”

The idea is mine, but the image is yours (Google Nano Banana) - “Any motions before we’re completely submerged?”

The idea is mine, but the image is yours (by Google's Nano Banana & chatGPT).

Trump’s tariffs, tax cuts & deregulation: higher costs, bigger deficits, and gains for the rich—while ordinary Americans pay the price.

The idea is mine, but the image is yours (by Google's Nano Banana). cartoon 1 - Trump says that the UN is ineffective!

 

My recollections on Thamil Drama in Colombo! - K.S.Sivakumaran -

This is one of the letters written to me by the late art and literary critic K. S. Sivakumaran. In it, he briefly mentions Tamil, Sinhala, and English plays staged in Colombo, the people who were involved in theatre, and his own contributions. In that sense, it carries great importance. September 15 is the remembrance day of K. S. Sivakumaran. In connection with that, I am sharing this letter.  

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My recollections on Thamil Drama in Colombo!  

In the 1960s and 1970s, I was a keen drama critic. Having seen the Colombo North cine-dramas and Rajaratnam's Colombo South comedies. I wrote a column called “Manathirai” in Thamil in the Thinakaran Vaara Manjari. I criticized all the slapstick presentations that went by the name Thamil Drama. This was because I read many books in English about Drama and Theatre and understood that what we witnessed were recreating Indian Thamil film sequences and using colloquial Yaalpaaana speech comedies. In 1953 or 1954, the TKS Brothers visited Colombo and staged a professional drama presentation. There was a semblance of theatricality in their presentation. I also witnessed one or two plays of the doyen of Lankan Thamil Drama-Sornalingam.

It must be 1961 or 1962, I saw a play called Mathamarram written by the late A N Kanthasamy, a writer and a Marxist thinker. When I saw that I was baffled. It was a different cup of tea for me. It was like a Shavian play. It was provoking and feast for thinking. I wrote a review of it in Tribune, now defunct.

About the thoughts of my two favorite astrophysicists…”

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Thought-provoking reflections of astro physicist Brian Greene on reality and time…

This reflection of astrophysicists  Brian Greene on time inspires a deeper exploration. In our universe, in our existence, the events that occur moment by moment are arranged in sequence, and through that sequence of moments we experience what we call time.

But if other extraterrestrial civilizations did not perceive time the way we do—if their existence was experienced differently—then just as time appears to us as a dimension, perhaps for them there might be another dimension through which they perceive reality. What an extraordinary thought! These are the kinds of reflections that appear in his writings, and they deeply fascinate me. It is such ideas that have made him one of my most admired physicists.

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The ‘Wormhole’ that connects universes

The ‘Wormhole’ that connects universes

Another of my favorite physicists is Michio Kaku. His writings on astrophysics also broaden our thinking. In this video, Michio Kaku explains with clarity and simplicity the idea of a wormhole, which emerges from Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. The hypothesis suggests that a wormhole is a pathway that establishes a connection between two different universes.

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Michio Kaku is another one of my favorite astrophysicists.His writings on astrophysics also broaden our thinking. In this video, Michio Kaku clearly and simply explains his views on the “wormhole,” as predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Einstein’s hypothesis describes a wormhole as a shortcut pathway that either connects two different universes or links distant points within the same universe.



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