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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

My failed quest for immortality


My Failed Quest for Immortality
 
by
Gyan C. A. Fernando
Illustrated by N. Senthilkumaran

 
medical immortality

I suppose I was young and full of dreams at that time, not that much has changed in the dreams department since, but I am no longer young.
One of my ambitions in my early days in Medical School was to have an organ or a disease named after me, you know the sort of eponymous diseases and organs like the Hand-Schuller-Christian thingy and the Bartholin’s gland.

The Train Halt with No Name

The Train Halt with No Name
A Most Curiously Named Railway Halt in Sri Lanka 
or 
Train Halt No 1
 
by
Gyan C A Fernando
Cartoon by N. Senthilkumaran
Many crowded trains pass through this station daily on the busy Coast Line of Sri Lanka to and from the capital, Colombo. Of the thousands of passengers who pass this rail halt not many know how it got its curious name.
Not many trains stop here anyway.

Train Halt No 1 in Sri Lanka

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Why Boys Love Trains and Girls Love Dolls

 
Why Boys Love Trains and Girls Love Dolls





Pseudo Scientific Research of the Zany Kind!
This article appeared in the Lanka Railway Digest (August 2012 issue)
Read it here:  LINK