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February Trip - Participants summary
good idea can have a meeting also v.k and sps decide.

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February Trip - Participants summary
Hi sps atleast 3 have confirmed from bangalore. the trip should be convenient for them to reach and join us. so they can reach saturday rest and join on sunday trip. so it ought to be a sunday. or bangaloreans can you reach early saturday and …

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February Trip - Participants summary
hi basically a one day trip early to late historical sites on the ecr covering sangam age, cholas, arab,dutch and pallavas. actual itinery and date to be worked out will have support from asi I guess. venketesh

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happy birthday
yes rahul thats what compatriots are for. same side goal sorry but somebody else needs to explain it venketesh

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happy birthday
barathi and women's lib bharathi must be proud if he visits his land today. nimirntha nannadai, nerkonda paarvai nilathil yaaarukkum anjaa..... 2 instances.where they exceeded even barathi's imagination. sunitha williams is in space t…

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happy birthday
-and his romantic songs suttum vizhisutar thaan kannamaa sooriya santhiraro? vatta kariya vizhi kannamaa vaana karumai kollo? takes you back to the days when you fell in love first when the girl you love seems to rival the moon the sun the stars …

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PS MEET IN CHENNAI :: FEB 07
25 december -small group in 1 car we could go to thiruvallur and see the cavemen sites at poondi also see 2 thevara sthalams nearby.

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PS MEET IN CHENNAI :: FEB 07
Precisely explained sathish so much of the time we relish the finished product without analyising the job behind. this pidari quarry is as important to pallava architecture as the legendary " 7km ramp from sarapallam" in tanjore. als…

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PS MEET IN CHENNAI :: FEB 07
hi sps tell us a date please. venketesh

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PS MEET IN CHENNAI :: FEB 07
Hi all ps meet february lets plan a one day trip. all the talk on ps can be on the way. my suggestion leave chennai by 6.30 valmiki temple ecr 8.15- marakanam - chola architecture 10.30 alhambra fort - smabuvaraayar and arab fort 12- pallava st…

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Iam a new member. Please read through.
what a time we used to have last year when diwaker the pungkuzhali hater and nadarajan srinivasan- a pungkuzhali fan battling it out however diwaker never had a good word for any charecter of kalki's venketesh

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need help
Hi poomagal and welcome. there are plenty of pictures of rrc in our photos section. go thro them. when are you reading ps for the 21st time??? venketesh

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Ponniyin Selvan - CALENDER 2007
Really a great idea! would be a memento to store after the year is over but then if it is going to be a personal calender ( as it was when deepa started it) there would be no problem. if we have plans of selling it then we run into copyright probl…

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Marina Meet on 2nd Dec :: SWETHA
Hi tranquebar is an area that was leased out to the danish by maratta kings of tanjore. there is still a fort there. I think its the southern most european settlement.Correct me if I am wrong. and the previous one is porto novo- parangipettai. I…

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Ponniyin Selvan - 2007
-18th century paintings of the temples by european travellers give a good perspective of the temples before urbanisation. there are pics of kailasanathar temple in kanchi and chidambaram in 1730s doing the round on the net.

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PS MEET IN CHENNAI :: FEB 07
-Unnai marakka mudiyumaa???? suganya aanaa somehow unnai 'bangalore' oda connect panna mudiyala avvalavu aalama ellor manathilum pathinthu vittathu venketesh

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kalki memorial event
hi in the memorial event the chief guest was justice chandru of the madras high court. he read out a line from kalki's book on srilanka( 70 years back0 there are 3 types of tamils in lanka. the jaffna tamils who are highly intellectual. the…

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Marina Meet on 2nd Dec
> > And talking about Deepa's participation, it reminds me of Swetha > around 1 and 1/2 years back... :) > Thats a wonderful compliment for deepa.- to be compared to swetha. deepa, swetha is one of the most knowledgable people …

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Important - Unpublished reports of ASI
Hi Know what is the easiest title to obtain.- HISTORIAN anybody can go about , climb a few temples, take a few photographs, read a few inscriptions all in a couple of years and claim to be a complete historian. then you can write articles, g…

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Respect and Admiration
-HI deepa's mails are like a breath of fresh air. and so inquisitive she is. makes you think about angles you have never thought of keep it up deepa venketesh

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Unpublished reports of ASI
madan political parties have two types of followers supporters and sympathisers. supporters are those who attend the meeting even if it rains! transport illai na meeting miss pannuven enbathu sympathizar category

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Respect and Admiration

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Unpublished reports of ASI
saturday 5.30 pm gandhi statue madras meeting? we will have to finalise by friday evening. come on all. perk up. we have lots to talk.

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Bahadur shah zafar and exiled kings
irony last king of india was buried in burma- the last king of burma died in India also the first and the last mughal kings are buried outside india. kabul for babar and yangon for bahadur bahadur- a poet laments " so unlucky is zafar doesn…

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Important - Unpublished reports of ASI
Hi I guess a lot of studies and finds were grossly repetitive. say if some one finds a pot full of similar chola coins- say a thousand of them we cant do justice to all. I feel asi is in that trap. new technology and better personnel are making wo…

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Unpublished reports of ASI
hi sivaram wants a madras meeting this weekend. can we meet in museum for a change and a fore noon meeting? come on guys christmas is not far off. we need to plan. Is Mr. Sriraman willing to do an assorted one day trip with us pre historic, palla…

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Unpublished reports of ASI
Hi 1.we cant generalise 2. the interest in our past is preserved by wonderful people like sriraman, rajavelu whom I have had an opportunity to move with. 3. participating in the beach meetings with sriraman opened up a new world for me and steer…

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The last moghul
the last moghul bahadur shah zafar ( see his photo in the heritage quiz section in photos folder) Just before he passed away in a British Army officer's garage in Dagon township of Yangon, burma following the failure of the 1857 war

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The last moghul
Hi what a co incidence. am reading white moghuls right now. its actually about englishmen of the east india company who became so indianised in the hyderabad state. the last moghul must be about bahadur sha zafar. one of the best accounts of h…

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Similarities between PS and SS
Hi I just happened to receive a set of bound sivakamiyin sabatham serials. mostly dated 1945( was it the original?) not many advertisements though. one was for gramaphone records of the movie 'Meera' with MS. musical reviews by kalki as…

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