Rayees Ahamed
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Rayees Ahamed
@RAYEESAHAMED
Scientist @ASTARsg | Ex-scientist @thermofisher | Alma mater: @MAHE_manipal Biotech🧬🤝AI 🦾 | Science🔬, Business💰, Politics🌏 (i choose truth over beliefs)








A person from Tamil Nadu travelling to Ceylon, Malaysia and Singapore can access any service in that country(especially emergency services) in Tamil Language. A Tamil Nadu Tamil who follows the Saivite or Vaishnavite faith can walk into any temple in these countries and feel at home, every single tradition, festivities, and archanai ticket, poojai, navakiragam, this and that is Tamil centric. A Tamil Nadu Tamil from Catholic background can easily connect with the Tamil prayer service in the Churches of Ceylon. The customs and traditions will also be same. A Tamil Nadu Muslim can easily connect with the heritage and cusine of Ceylon, Malaysia and Singapore. In fact Ceylon, Malaysian, and Singaporean cuisine have been heavily influenced by Tamil Nadu Tamil Muslims. I mean the whole 'Mamak' culture in Singapore and Malaysia is enough to prove this. They can easily find Thosai, Vadai, Kothu rotti made to suit the Tamil taste.. They can easily find theatres playing the latest Tamil movies, they can find archeological sites/heritage with relevance to Tamil Nadu. Even Sinhalese people and Malay people understand Vadivelu joke references. How much of this connection can a Tamil Nadu Tamil who travels to Bihar, Gujarat or Rajasthan experience? Nil.



🚨Foreign tourist arrivals to India fall 9.4% to 90.2 lakh in 2025.


This is why we in Tamil Nadu will always have more in common with countries like Singapore, Malaysia and Sri Lanka than north India. I’d definitely feel more culture shock in Hindia than in those countries.










@theliverdoc Ayurveda has existed for at least 3000 years. The so-called modern medicine started existing only a few hundred years back. The Govt is sincerely trying to collaborate to scientifically document the results. What's wrong in this progressive step?


















