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RRC Life History :: Chapterisation
Hi I have little to do on this. its SPS's dream project. I guess SPS knows more about the man RRc than anybody else. most of us are still battling between AmV the myth and RRC the man. venketesh

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RRC Life History :: Chapterisation
Hi a lot of things about RRc remains hazy but that doesnt dim his achievements. perhaps we shouldnt be so demanding of our historians to produce all evidence. we have to be reasonable condidering that a lot of evidence was erased by the events of…

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Arts in India: Thanjai Paintings

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Arts in India: Thanjai Paintings
Hi if you go to those chambers you wil notice that several things are incomplete. the 108 karnas sculptures are not finished. empty stones stare at you in 6- 7 panels. so there was no interest to redo the paintings.( my logic is their first int…

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Arts in India: Thanjai Paintings
from wiki fresco technique consists of painting in pigment mixed with water on a thin layer of wet, fresh, lime mortar or plaster, for which the Italian word for plaster, intonaco, is used. Due to the chemical makeup of the plaster, a binder is …

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Arts in India: Thanjai Paintings
A possible explanation could be that they > were done in haste! I have heard of information about the massive delay in > time while constructing the big temple . And it is perhaps because of this > reason that the sarfoji kings decided t…

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Vaaram Oru Alayam #39(Arulmigu Thaalapureeswarar Alayam - Thirupanagkadu)
Hi lots of temples with panai as thala viruksham. the interesting thing is many of them except malapadi are named after the tree itself. thiru panangkadu near kanchi, puravaar panangkaattur( near villupuram) thiru pananthaal( near mayavaram), thir…

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Can animals predict death
Hi Pavithra idintha kottai is my favourite too so similar to O. Henry's last leaf short story. in this too a master story teller weaving his masterpiece story which will be his last. venketesh

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Can animals predict death
-Hi kalki loved these supernatural phenomena. he wrote about a lot of dead people visiting the living. also past life memories. like kunthavai explaining as vitta kurai thottta kurai 3 of kalkis stories' solaimalai ilavarasi, idintha kott…

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Arts in India: Mamallapuram
-Hi behl. the name sounds rather familiar. was he the guy who photographed and for a long time held the copyright to the pictures of the upper chambers of the big temple? the copyright rose because no one else was allowed to photograph it after hi…

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kothamangalam subbu's chola novel
Hi I can organise a meet with MR. viswanathan s/o of kothamangalam subbu sometime in chennai. we should do our homework and ask questions to clear up with him. kothamangalam subbu had 3 wives I know. the third being sundaribai the comedianne. he…

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kothamangalam subbu's chola novel
I have talked about kalaimani's novels in the past but no one seemed to bother. sir ippo thaan kothamangalam subbu wrote under the name of kalaimani nnu enakku theriyum. thanks for mentioning ( and supporting shoba's contention that t…

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Amazing if true......
> > Mr.Venketesh's giraffe example is really good. Probably the sculptor was influenced by the drawings of either the cavemen or travelers who always know a lot. Hi Rahul want to hear about my girafee theory. lots of african slaves…

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Amazing if true......
Hi vijay it looks like a tailed variety of the tapir. an animal frequently found in that area but was hunted down during the cambodian war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Tapir its still found in neighbouring countries. there is a statue o…

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kothamangalam subbu's chola novel
Hi here are the achievements of kothamangalam subbu. sems to be a link with kalki. we should compatre the two in a thread. Books written Natakame Ulagam, Panjamirtham, Manju Virattu collection of dramas wrote and enacted in AIR. Gandhi Mah…

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kothamangalam subbu's chola novel
Hi the ad in vikadan claims its about cholas. lets see when we get the copy.

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kothamangalam subbu's chola novel
Hi kotha mangalam subbu was the best ss vasan could manage after he lost kalki. subbu also seems to have been an untiring worker. so many film scripts , novels( under pen name kalaimani- including the mega hit thillana mohanambal) his crowning ac…

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kothamangalam subbu's chola novel
> > reminds me : KAMAL has written an excellent article on PANDYA > KUDAVARAI - kind of Prelude.. in varalaaru.com > > Seetharaman's Srivillputhur has comeout well. has kamal written about mahibalanpatti? > > sps &…

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NAMBI ANDAR NAMBI
Hi Sps Now Diwaker has given some evidence linking rajraja and nambiandar nambi. i use the word linking in a broad sense as diwaker himself. I understand its subject to verification by other sources. But i want to also know what was the evidence …

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THIRUMURAITHALANGAL
Hi if we could list these teples acording to nearby towns it would generate more interest. if we classify like the earlier north of cauvery and south of cauvery, thiru siraapalli( uchipillaiyar hill) and thiruvanaika though only 2 km apart come…

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Uthira-kosa-mangai
Hi Sps can you check out on Mahibalan patti kudavarai koil from agasthiyar group. Dr. Jaybee hails from that area, and must have surely discussed it. venketesh

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Uthira-kosa-mangai
Hi Sps was away for my niece's wedding. it was at a place called nerkuppai in sivakangai district just before the town was a place called MAHIBALAN PATTI with an ASi board saying there was a kudavarai koil of 7-8th century there. also from…

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Uthira-kosa-mangai
Of course Kailayam now is not a tough yatra if you have the means. hi Shoba, thats right. if you have the means you can be transported in a helicopter land at the banks of the manasarovar and see the hill from there. no breathing trouble, no alt…

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Uthira-kosa-mangai
Hi i have nothing against ravana. just that he failed in his marital matters.- precisely what mandothari prayed for- right? venketesh

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Uthira-kosa-mangai
he might have visited almost all except ' Thiru Kailayam'. > My father must have visited close to 150. Avarum parka Sivapazhamathan iruppar :) Hi Shoba thiru kailayam is no longer the great obstacle. it is ketheshwaram in lanka. t…

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Uthira-kosa-mangai
> This explanation is from the book " Thirumurai Thalangal" by Pulavar Jaya Senthilnathan, published by 'Vardamanan Pathipagam'. > This book covers the 276 thirumurai places , giving in brief the sthala puranam, speci…

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Uthira-kosa-mangai
> > I think in this place, Ravana's wife Mandothari did > some penance to get a good husband. bad advertisement for the place? actually shiva appeared as a baby to both mandothari and ravana here. we have a medium sized thread o…

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Vaiko speaks on PS at Delhi - Information
> When I spoke of Ponniyinselvan and our PS Group, he( vaiko) was very much > enthusiastic and wanted to know more details on RRC and also of our > group activities. > > vaiko took a leaf out of pS book when he emulated vanthiyath…

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WHO IS BETTER EDITOR
> 'Ramayanam' book was presented to adiyen by the great Mahatma( rajaji) in 1972 March, at his house at Bazullah Road the house was built by kalki to his taste. long corridors to walk and a nice swing both of which were kalki…

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Vaaram Oru Alayam #37(Arulmigu Idaisuranathar Alayam - ThiruIdaiSuram)
-Hi idaisuram is a fantastic temple, nestled between a few hills but I doubt if it is so close to thiruporur. it definitely must be a longer distance. i remember it was closer to chingelpet. 5 km or so. the temple was renovated by the saravana bav…

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