R.Michael Paulraj

R.Michael Paulraj is basically interested in the study of history and ethnology. He has studied medieval history of Europe, ancient history of the Middle Eastern peoples, and the prehistoric and later migrations of racial groups and their settlement in different parts of the world. He holds an MA in English Literature. Phonetics was an important subject he studied as part of his postgraduate course.

He has written on various topics in leading English newspapers and other publications in India since 1989. He is also a contributing writer to the online newspaper Instablogs.com. His writings have covered international affairs, racial and social problems, the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, proliferation of nuclear weapons, and environmental issues.

His flair for the study of languages and comparative linguistics led him to work on the philological similarities he found between the indigenous English and Tamil vocabularies. The findings were compiled into a book titled Key Words of a Kinship.

He was born in the coastal town of Kudankulam, the controversial site of the Indo-Russian project for a 4000-megawatt nuclear power station at the southern end of India.