Dinesh Aluthge

CNA's The Mark Of Empire Series - Anuradhapura Kingdom, Sri Lanka #SriLanka youtube.com/watch?v=vLDTBF…

Radio Ceylon celebrated it's 100th on December 16, 2025. Why should it matter to India? It's an interesting story In the early 1950s, India’s Minister for Information and Broadcasting, B.V. Keskar, banned Hindi film songs on All India Radio (AIR), labeling them too "vulgar" and "Westernized." Radio Ceylon seized this moment. Using powerful shortwave transmitters left behind by the Allied Forces after WWII (Radio SEAC), they beamed Hindi film music directly into Indian homes. The most famous radio program in history, Binaca Geetmala was launched on Radio Ceylon in 1952. Ameen Sayani’s iconic greeting, "Behno aur Bhaiyo" (Sisters and Brothers), reached millions of Indian listeners every Wednesday. To this day, the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) houses one of the world’s largest libraries of Hindi film music. ​Fun Fact: When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were climbing Mount Everest in 1953, the only radio station they could clearly receive at the summit was Radio Ceylon! @SLBCnewslk @Mahishini @airnewsalerts

Tuning the Degradability Profiles of Polyesters with Indium-Catalyzed Incorporation of Poly(ε-thiocaprolactone) Blocks | Journal of the American Chemical Society @UBC pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

@UmeshMoramudali This is a real problem. I knew someone from a different university who was bonded to the full foreign scholarship amount (again the university played no part in it). They even included the living allowance in their calculation. The person just quit and left.

On today’s uni drama : University administration wants me to sign a bond worth 15 million, but refuses to share the calculations of it, stating that it is “confidential”

@DalrympleWill Welcome to Sri Lanka! Happy Birthday, William!

Yapahuwa, 13thC capital of Sri Lanka

@DalrympleWill I can share some sources. I learnt about this from Prof. Osmund Bopearachchi's work. Lecture (51 m): youtube.com/watch?v=rV0b7j… trivalent.sljol.info/articles/38/fi…

@Dinesh_CAl Do you have photos?

More and more evidence appearing every year that India was Rome's most important trading partner

Please donate to help the Robb family who lost their house in the California fires. gofund.me/5a056e5a

@lew1ya I am sure it will be a hit! Honestly don't see anything wrong with the menu.

@Dinesh_CAl He had a Thai restaurant in the same space before, and it was very impressive - unfortunately the chef left, but I trust the vision!

A friend's restaurant launches in Una on the 12th. He posted this on fb and got 'laugh' reacts...

Congrats to #NobelLaureate @francesarnold, recipient of the 2025 Priestley Medal, the highest honor awarded by ACS which recognizes an individual for distinguished service to #chemistry. brnw.ch/21wLb7x #ChemTwitter #Awards #NobelPrize

Exciting news! A $30 million lead gift – from former Caltech postdocs Drs. Jack Zhang and Mary Luo – endows the Rudolph A. Marcus Center for Theoretical Chemistry. This gift pays tribute to the decades of friendship and support provided by Prof. Marcus. cce.caltech.edu/news-and-event…

The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce @LaurelSchafer as our new Head. Dr. Schafer has served as the Associate Head, Research since 2016 and is the first woman to be appointed as Head of the UBC Chemistry Department. 🔗chem.ubc.ca/chemistry-welc…

@wpiers1 @cathleencrudden So no BCF in DCM?

@cathleencrudden Right up there with BCF.

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of UVic chemistry professor Ian Manners earlier this week. Ian was a world-leading scientist and an outstanding member of our Faculty, and will be profoundly missed. ow.ly/6Vi850QgE4j

Profs. Corinna Schindler & Corey Stephenson will join UBC Chemistry, jointly appointed with @UBCbiochemistry in the summer of 2024. Both are award winning researchers, with Stephenson being appointed as a Canada Excellence Research Chair at UBC. Read more: chem.ubc.ca/corinna-schind…

Great to see all the love Harry is getting from people who know him! #HBG

RIP Jeff. You will be missed. Thank you for you grace and kindness.

Last Friday, we celebrated the 100th birthday of Prof. Rudy Marcus! A symposium featured a myriad of colleagues & former students honoring his mentorship & his lasting academic career. Thank you all who attended this special celebration. Congrats, Rudy on your centenary year!

Celebrating Rudy Marcus’ 100th birthday ⁦@Caltech⁩ ⁦@CaltechCCE⁩ ⁦@NobelPrize⁩ . Still loving #chemistry!!