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Ponniyin selvan as a Mega serial
Dear Meena you are 100 percent correct if not more most of us have imagined the faces and facial expressions of the charecters in our own way. the serial would destroy that "first love" but i think some of us can get together and produce …

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Mystery Novel
a a kaaa thiruppi vEthaalam murunga maram eridichchu (3 naal leave la puththunarchi petru vantha veethaalm.) yow dhiwaker ponniyin selvan is not a mystery novel. mystery and suspense is just a part of it. kalki's greatest achievement was hum…

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Kaanagam Ugandha kaali
Dear gokul is this punjai temple thiru nani palli( sambanthars maternal grandpa's place) kudavasal once referred the temple , but i forget for what i only remember the space around the lingam in the karuvarai. the space is enough for one ele…

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thiruvengadu
dear all childless couples are recommended by devaram to have a bath in the three ponds at thiruvengadu sambantar says vengattu mukkula niir..... pillai .....varam peruvar and finishes the song with aiyuravendaam( dont doubt) umapathy sivam( auth…

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thiruvengadu
one more trivia about the kali in thiruvengadu the neck of this goddess seems in a very odd ( an humanly impossible) angle. the local legend says neck is broken in the dance competition with shiva

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Blending India's history with its futu APJ Abdul Kalam
Dear all its great to have such a wonderful president. but can he realy change the indian society and make it resemble the past glory? a social worker who comes to india in the 19th century says i found two pieces of ivory in the forest and felt h…

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who made the difference?
amma thaaye swetha, i go to perumal temples also. no veera saiva velai. (thrice a week i go to srinivasa perumal @ chitirai kulam.but see aanju daily) arulukku kapali, porulukku perumal. ha ha and now that we have a list can we hear about their m…

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who made the difference?
ha ha i missed kudanthai jothidar didnt i but there are many more charecters. my vote goes to karuthi man( kariya thirumal) can anybody else justify this?

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Nayanmars - Manickavasagar
Dear Dhiwaker manikavasakar defeats the budhists in debates, just as sambandar does to the jains. also he makes the dumb daughter of the sinhala king speak, in chidambaram temple itself. buddhism seems to have been a major influence in the tamil …

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Nayanmars - Manickavasagar
Dear Dhiwaker i will surely try to find out who classified the samaya kuravars as one entity. that should give one clue. manicka vasagar must have been around when there were buddhists to be his rivals and the pandyan king as the ruler.

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nayanmars
Dear diwakar i always knew manam oru kurangku but after interacting with you i realise its a chimpanzee its a wonder how you jump from one topic to another ignoring the wide chasm inbetween? ellaam vayasu paa

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Nayanmars - Manickavasagar
Dear Dhiwaker manika vasagar is one big enigma. we dont know when he lived to my knowledge he hasnt mentioned the others and then the others havent mentioned him why he was left out only emberumaan knows. till we get his era right, we will still …

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nayanmars
Hai Diwakar just dont imagine all the 63 are nose cutters or hand cutters. some exemplary activities by the nayanmars can also be seen. my favourites are karaikal ammaiyar and poosalar poosalar a man in penury has a life long ambition of building a…

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nayanmars
dear Dhiwaker Kazharsinga Nayanar was a Pallava monarch, belonging to the family of Kadavar. his wife the queen picked up a flower meant for the shiva temple and smelt it. another nayanar Seruthunai Nayanar got angry and cut off her nose for that f…

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vallalar
Dear all as far as i know the only acknowledged sidhdhar in the 63 nayanmars is thirumoolar sidhars i feel are more mystic than the routine saints and who qualifies more than vallalaar? perhaps since he is much more recent we do not give him the v…

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nayanmars - Siruthondar
Dear diwakar avarkaLe ( i wont stop this till you do) siruthondar cooked his son at shivas request. i didnt mean siruthondar when i said political appointee he entered the list based on the merits of his post war experiences.

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nayanmars
Dear all though a devoted shaivaite, i am a little critical of the ways some of the the nayanmars were chosen no there was no comitee to choose them. sundarar listed something like 59 people and sekilar added sundars family to it and made it round…

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New Kalvettu in Thanjai
some people love what they do some people keep doing what they love personally to me, ponniyin selvan related matters are the latter

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nayanmaars
definitely appar and sambandar deserved their places. so did karaikal ammaiyar( the only sitting one if you noticed) so did a host of others. the two political apointees that you missed were charecters in ss narasimhas brother in law- the pandyan-…

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nayanmaars
Dear dhiwakar 3 nayanmars come in sivakamiyin sabatham and another one is mentioned as a contemprory. who are they? venketesh.r

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what is a katrali?
i would certainly love to learn more on the social aspects of katrali. in those days building a katrali involve mind bogling logistics. for example a village can decide to build a brick temple. but a katrali definitely needed higher investments and…

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(no subject)
chathurvethi mangkalam kidaiththaal EOU start seyvaraam Dhiwakar. ayyoo avaru lollu thaangkalay dhiwarakarai naadu kadaththinaal will that count as a EOU? venketesh

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Ottomon Nandhini
dear all Muthuprakash has furnished an excellent list for those like us who dwell in the cobwebs of the past members should also check for a huge qty of historical novels available in project gutenberg on the net since it has only books published 50…

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Ottomon Nandhini
once again a book not for the faint hearted but full of plots and twists and turns is "delhi" by khuswant singh traces history of delhi thro the lives of the protagonsits over the last 1000 years another must read for history buffs is t…

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AADI 18TH :: PUNARVASU
dear sps we chennai vasi's dont have to think about kaviri river when we have our bath on aadiperukku we are actually using kaviri water for it. the kaviri water from mettur comes to veeraanam via the colerooon and is pumped to chennai so w…

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Udayar and pillars of the Earth
Dear sri, ken follet is one hell of a writer. pity we dont have many such people in our vicinity. and pillars of the earth was a really descriptive novel of a society in medival england around the murder of archbishop of canterbury, with the constr…

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Most disturbing Death
when a man realises his follies and repents its a moving scene. not only that when he takes up the blame for a murder he certainly did not commit( at the cost of his life long reputation)it is certainly commendable. an old and broken man, realising …

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Udayar and pillars of the Earth
dear all i think udayar has very little inspiraton behind it.let alone p o e its just a samooka novel in a historical background. ken follet's pillars of the earth is one great book with enormous details about the period. right from architect…

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Aabathudhavigal
if we take kalkis word caste also played a role in sections of the army. in the rameshwaram episode he talks to representatives of the kaikolar vaguppu famous warriors of those days,they were chosen to be the agaparivara padai.kalki says they are …

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Aabathudhavigal
- are the aabathudahavikal the pandyan equivalent of the chola velakkaarapadai? perhaps the objectives are same. (but in ps , velakara padai sacrifice themselves after the king is killed inspite of their protection the abathudavikaL go after the …

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