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Dasavatharam :: Trailer link
Hi obviously the story starts when the chola dropped govindarajar of thillai in the sea.? from the trailer we can see a vaishanavaite priest who resists the soldiers when they try to open a door of a temple with battering rams. the god inside the…

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Thillana Mohanambal
-Well atleast sujatha went one step ahead and wrote directly for the movies. kalki, akilan, r.k narayan, jayakanthan, sujatha are some of the authors whose published works were made into movies. anybody I left out??? i think a pattern would emer…

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Thillana Mohanambal
> I think movie is a different medium and shouldn't be compared to the book. for more reasons than one. the primary reason is the book is viewed by different people in the perception of their own experiences in the visual medium you are…

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Thillana Mohanambal
Hi the old bound books of the story serials also offer us an insight into the living those times. a couple of years back we did run a discussion on the advertisements in ponniyin selvan serial in kalki magazines. in particular there was a disc…

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Thillana Mohanambal
> > the best places were the luz busstop old man - but it was pulled down > by the corporation i think in 1992..or 94. the old man was a computer > by himself - you would think that the whole place was a maze of > books ..but he…

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Thillana Mohanambal
Hi Very True Mr. Vishwanathan s/o kothamangkalam subbu also mentioned that they were on the look out for some of his father's writings which were missing. venketesh

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Swami Vivekananda House - Chennai -
Hi but the local political rumour mill is churning out reasons for the government desperately seeking a highly visible place urgently. woodlands drive in and vivekananda house are high on the list. kadavulukku thaan velicham..... venketesh

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Swami Vivekananda House - Chennai -
Hi the entire history of the ice house. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/01/02/stories/ 2003010200820300.htm venketesh

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Swami Vivekananda House - Chennai -
Hi I dont think they are demolishing it. they want it back at the end of the lease. the govt however is on a demolishing spree. the main building in the govt estate which used to be the governors residence is under the hammer. venketesh

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Thillana Mohanambal
Vijay me and millions like me would have ended up being allergic to tamil if we had failed in the exams. venketesh-

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Thillana Mohanambal
Hi in my humble opinion konar notes has done more 'sEvai" to tamil learning than all poets writers and tamil liguistic piriyarkal. forget the notes, but the fundamentals that tamil could be more simpler and accesible to the common man( …

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Thillana Mohanambal

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ayyanar kovil kuthirai - clay horses of ayyanar
Hi now that you speak off i think even in kalvanin kathali the lovers meet near a dilapitated temple of this sort kalki grew up in a rural surrounding of buthamangalam and manalmedu. almost all the people he met there have been charecterised. ay…

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Balakumaran Interview & Ponniyin Selv & Tamil Authors

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A journey by sea, to revive voyages of the Cholas
Hi national geographic used to sponsor sea voyages of even mythological charecters like jason an sindbad. but they made sure the explorers build boats exactly like described in the epics and make people travel in them. most were by severin a d…

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dasavatharam
Hi a new write up on the above said movie. where the hero is tied to a statue of perumal and is submerging into the sea. so we can get an idea about what we can expect. paarthiingalaa? asin, kamal , dasaavathaaramnu oru vaarthai kuuda sollaama …

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Members in midwest/southern US
> > Also anyone from Singapore/Malaysia/Thailand? vijay kumar is from singapore

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dasavatharam
kollaiyadikka ponavan raamayan ezhuthunaar kopurathularunthu kuthichu tharkolai seyya ninaithavar thirupukazh ezuthunaar appadi asinai thedum yaaraavathu Ponniyin selvan padikkalaam illa? i can hear sathish say aamaamilla? aamaamaa illaiyaa? venk…

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kalki and social issues
Hi around that time a chera king had even converted to islam and built a mosque. marco polo visiting mylapore during later pandya times visits the shrine of st. thomas. and pallavas had a lot of association with pallavaram and mylapore. they mu…

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kalki and social issues
> I think somehow Poonguzhali/SA becoming king and queen was an > afterthought he had somehow to conclude a story that was becoming > increasingly complex. Hi i was one amidst strong opposition from many group members who fet other wise…

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kalki and social issues
Besides one of the strong > reasons Sivakami was not allowed to marry NP was becasue she could > not dance any more and the dance culture would lose a great artiste. > Am I missing something here? Hi kalki was evolving as a historical…

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my video on differently abled
Hi all atleast two moderators sps and me participated on two sides of this argument. so the ultimatum was to us as much as others. local politix( asterix stlye) creates so much heatmeans just imagine our argumenst on the cholas and kalki. dont ta…

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iniya puthandu vazhthukkal -TOPIC CLOSED.
adappaavikalaa enna thiirthu katrathunnu mudivu senjutingala. asin drenched foto i talked about but that was in ful costume with bakthi paravasam on her face. i'll locate the pic and send vijay and sathish. but talking about quarries, i visi…

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dasavatharam
one of the stills released for the movie has a drenched asin and kamal with a statue of perumal( most propably recovered from the sea)

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narumugaiye narumugaiye
ennangadaa? round katti adikkiriinga???? venketesh

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Kalki
Hi > So did Kalki give up on the cause and start historical novels ? > > Curious to know. its only on kalki's writing periods. inhis early years kalki espoused so many causes from prohibition to khadar actively( other than writing…

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narumugaiye narumugaiye
> This was actually dug up when I was running an argument with venkat on the extent of ******* rasam in his works....when we dug up some real eye openers from an old book . Life of tamils during the sangam age... enna bakthi rasam pathi thaan…

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iniya puthandu vazhthukkal

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Sack of Srirangam
-Hi some of the early leaks of the story indicated story starts in chidambaram. even today i met one of the actors who plays a role in the movie. he's so old that its going to be his last movie perhaps. i should have asked him. venketesh

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Sack of Srirangam
Hi I heard it was the govindarajar statue. since story is about terrorism and germ warfare i assumed kirumi kanda cholan is a part of it. ellaam kamalukkE velicham. venketesh

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