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Articles by Israel Jayakaran

I am a retired Indian Army Colonel, a post graduate Electronics and ommunication engineer. After retirement I have taken to free lance writing and teaching the English language. Have done a lot of research on English grammar and made several discoveries hitherto unknown to the English speaking world. Have also evolved a new method of teaching English to learners from non-English speaking countries. Interested in the new method? Do get in touch with me.

FDI in Indian Retail market
February 1, 2012 – 2:51 pm | No Comment | 22 views
FDI in Indian Retail market

Doesn’t the Indian Cabinet enjoy a right to design a bill in the interest of the Nation and present it to the Parliament for approval? The Opposition parties  opposed  the bill of FDI in retail …

Shouldn’t the Electorate have a voice in the administration of India?
January 20, 2012 – 4:33 pm | 4 Comments | 44 views
Shouldn’t the Electorate have a voice in the administration of India?

It would appear that the Indian Electorate have no voice whatever in the administration of India once they have elected a Government  at the Centre! There is no mechanism  either to ascertain the views of …

Watch your step, unruly road rollers are around
January 17, 2012 – 3:04 pm | 4 Comments | 20 views
Watch your step, unruly road rollers are around

 I live in the city of  Chennai, India. Do you know what it has become famous for in recent years? The city has nearly become the Detroit of USA, going by the number of  4- …

One Husband Several Wives and One Wife Several Husbands
December 27, 2011 – 4:54 pm | One Comment | 50 views
One Husband Several Wives and One Wife Several Husbands

“History repeats itself” is no vain statement and it surely does if what has been reported  in the newspapers the  other day is true. The repetition  here has  a small twist, that’s all.
Some years back, …

Seychelles, a Victim of Sea Piracy
December 15, 2011 – 7:59 pm | One Comment | 34 views
Seychelles, a Victim of Sea Piracy

Seychelles is no more a paradise for rich holidayers and tourists. It has become  a hunting ground for  pirates, Somalian pirates. Their operational  area is from Seychelles to Mahe, gulf of Aden and Maldives.
The pirates’ …

Matters of the heart-\-break
December 9, 2011 – 1:45 pm | One Comment | 33 views
Matters of the heart-\-break

Are you in love with some person? Deeply in love? How free have you been with him/her physically?  If you have been  only hugging and kissing, this article is meant for you.  If you …

The Female to Male Ratio
November 30, 2011 – 10:04 pm | One Comment | 17 views
The Female to Male Ratio

It is the Creator God who decides on the sex of the baby being formed in a mother’s womb. The parents have no control over it at all. And God maintains a perfect balance between …

Go easy on your life, friend
November 26, 2011 – 1:16 pm | No Comment | 28 views
Go easy on your life, friend

India is in the  lime light for all wrong reasons. We are one of the ‘leading’ corrupt nations. Corruption is painted boldly on the face of all our leaders and other important people. As of …

On tooth brush and tooth paste
November 20, 2011 – 11:26 am | 2 Comments | 32 views
On tooth brush and tooth paste

 If I recall correctly, tooth  paste and tooth brush came into our life around the year 1941. I was in school  and in a hostel then. The name of the tooth paste was ‘neem’. All …

Do you wish to live for decades and absolutely healthy too?
November 13, 2011 – 8:30 am | One Comment | 13 views
Do you wish to live for decades and absolutely healthy too?

 When we read in the Holy Bible that Adam, the first human being of the world, lived for 950 years and his children Methuselah for 969 years, Lamech 769 years  and Noah [Who survived the …

How to avoid a Divorce
November 8, 2011 – 4:16 pm | 3 Comments | 102 views
How to avoid a Divorce

Suguna fell deeply in love with  Mukesh when she had gone to New Delhi on a college project work.. The love  was so overpowering Suguna felt that she could not live without Mukesh  even for …

‘Laughing’ is no laughing matter !
November 2, 2011 – 2:31 pm | No Comment | 18 views
‘Laughing’ is no  laughing matter !

You must have seen a caption such as “Laughter the best medicine”, in a few magazines.  Most of the  Monthlies and Weeklies  do run a column for  jokes, humour and so on. It is  …

The farce elements of Indian elections
October 29, 2011 – 7:58 am | No Comment | 29 views
The farce elements of Indian elections

 The election dynamics in India works in a very strange way.  Do you know a one percent swing of the electorate towards a particular political party could earn  them up to  ten  seats? Here is …

What will you do with your nuclear technology?
October 27, 2011 – 2:46 pm | 2 Comments | 31 views
What will you do with your nuclear technology?

Probably you would do the same and the third person over there would also do the same.  But I won’t..
The question is directed on the countries who have developed the nuclear technology, reactors and so …

The art of parrot prediction is dying down
October 20, 2011 – 5:34 pm | One Comment | 23 views
The art of parrot prediction is dying down

A man  carrying a small portable  cage with a parrot inside, is a common sight at all temples, parks and such places where there is a daily gathering of thousands of people, in India. He …

It can’t be bye bye to iddli, vadai and sambhar !
October 15, 2011 – 8:39 pm | One Comment | 23 views
It can’t be bye bye to iddli, vadai and sambhar !

This morning’s newspaper carried a horrible new item – Iddli and Sambhar  are the worst enemies for the heart  and also the major cause for diabetes.  The medicos claim that  Tamil Nadu  has the second  …

Washing dirty linen in public
October 10, 2011 – 6:07 pm | No Comment | 47 views
Washing dirty linen  in public

I like the Election time, you know?  And we get plenty of it in a democracy.  Currently the elections  for  various types  of local bodies in different cities, towns  and villages of my State Tamil …

On snoring
October 8, 2011 – 11:15 am | No Comment | 23 views
On snoring

 It is agreed that snoring is an awful habit.  One doesn’t acquire  it like a disease of a kind.  It comes naturally due to obstructions in your breathing system. Well, the habit could be rectified by …

Thanks and gratefulness to God
October 1, 2011 – 10:39 am | 2 Comments | 36 views
Thanks and gratefulness to God

Thanks and gratefulness to God Somewhere I read this morning about a little girl saying, ”I didn’t receive anything good from God today. Why should I thank Him and express my gratitude?” Many of us …

Wives indeed deserve a day of honour, don’t they?
September 27, 2011 – 5:35 pm | One Comment | 47 views
Wives indeed deserve a day of honour, don’t they?

Why is it that the world does not observe a “Wife’s day”? She is a mother all right but wife first. She needs recognition as wife primarily