Thursday, November 28, 2019

Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) and E.V.Ramasamy (1879-1973)

I wrote the below two para as part of an article, this two para was not included in the final published article.

Erodu- Peace and Firebrand

The mathematics genius Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) was born in Erode. He lived a very short span of 32 years, for that we curse nature forever! He has immensely contributed to the world of mathematics quite miraculously on which the world talents still discover the meanings. His life was full of struggle with abject poverty and number games with scientific meanings with abreast fire in thinking for thoughts. He gave a new infinite definition to zero! But the killer nature gave 94 years of long life to his wife Janakiammal Ramanujan (1899- 1994) but not without strives for better living. She had decades of tailoring of painful life with poverty before receiving recognition along with for her revered husband from governments and scientific community across countries.


The self-respect crusader E.V.Ramasamy (1879-1973) known as Periyar who lived a long life of 94 years was born in Erode in a wealthy family. Periyar’s quest was to demystify the Hindu traditions under the lenses of communists’ ideology. The social milieus of the early part of the twentieth century forced Periyar to be of progressive in the social discourse which he took frantically with the engine of egos than sound reasoning. Great Tamil Scholar K.A.P.Viswanatham was statute critic of Periyar and wrote a list of 14 compliant against EVR for entrusting him as president of Justice Party.

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