The followers of Sri Ramalingam alias Vallalar might be aware of Vallalar’s statement “One day, Vadalur will become Cuddalore”. I have been thinking for long time, what it means? The towns Vadalur and Cuddalore belong to South Arcot district (figure-1) until early 1990s, in Tamil Nadu province, India. Since the South Arcot district is very […]
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19th Century Climate Scientist’s article on “Formation of rains”
Sri Ramalingam’s piece of work during 19th century on “how rain forms” is an extra-ordinary scientific work considering the time he had written without even having a primary school education. May be this piece of work is to clarify the doubt among the people on “how rain comes?”, as people had a wrong belief (according […]
Deforestation and Disaster preparedness in Thiruarutpa
“Scientific information in ancient Tamil literature THIRUARUTPA” Sri Ramalingam (alias) Vallalar, wrote Thiruarutpa (www.thiruarutpa.org) in 19th century, which is famous literature for spiritual principles. However, many scientific information could be observed in his works. This makes us to think, how amazing people lived in the pre ICT era. The valuable information from ancient literature’s could […]