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Big temple - SK Pillai calculations
Hi All it should be very valid for us all to read the histories of kings and events contemprory to RRC thro out the world. that would tell us how behind we are in recording the history of our kings we cant decide when rrc was born, we dont know for …

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Big temple - SK Pillai calculations
Hi all I think rrc has fact and fiction mixed in highly equal proportions. what really do we have on his battles? venketesh

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srory of india by michael wood retelecast in discovery channel

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kandalur salai
HI Sps if we have not discussed this earlier could somebody post the actual edicts other than meikeerthis regarding this battle. venketesh

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Big Temple
> Ashtathique what a nice word to mention the 8 directions. a similar word 'enthisai' comes in pamban swami'ss shanmuga kavacham. 'en thisai potra nindra en arul eesanaana thin thiral saravanathaan thinamum en sirasai kaak…

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srory of india by michael wood retelecast in discovery channel
> > Rajarajan was crowned around 25th June 985 AD. His first war and > > victory was mentioned in his 4th year inscription and 'Kanthalur Salai > > Kalamarutha...' in his Meikeerthi. He has 3 types of Meikeerthis …

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vengaiyin paaichal
shot the photo or the lion?

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srory of india by michael wood retelecast in discovery channel
> Arulmozhi took the name Rajarajan on his coronation. year 985 AD. Do you > know what the names of two chola gupurams of the big temple and what they > signify] ] if the cornation edict of arul mozhi mentions the tile raja raja then it de…

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Hyder Ali's invasion of Tanjore
> Have you read the book "Empire's First Soldiers" by DP Ramachandran? A fascinating work. would certainly check it out i got really fascinated after reading darymples book on bahadur shah. how sikhs plundered delhi because of an…

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Hyder Ali's invasion of Tanjore
Hi Nanda read comment no 15 after the article. http://pragmatic.nationalinterest.in/2009/02/15/our-military-traditions/ seems to be a big issue. a whole list of battles seem to be under the list venketesh

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Hyder Ali's invasion of Tanjore
Hi historic battle of seringapatna wellesley beat tipu and later as duke of wellington defeated napolean in waterloo one of the few people to have a country capital named after him. new zealand. also wellington island in cochin named after him. s…

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Hyder Ali's invasion of Tanjore
Hi Nanda i too was surprised at memories running so long but this is what wiki says. there should certainly be a govt act if it was enforce . please search for one as i shall do venketesh

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Hyder Ali's invasion of Tanjore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repugnant_battle_honours_of_the_Indian_Army

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Hyder Ali's invasion of Tanjore
> Hyder Ali invaded Tanjore in 1781, at the height of the Second Mysore War.[3] Col. Braithwaite tried to stem his advance but was defeated and had to surrender.[3] Hyder extracted the allegiance of the Maratha king Thuljaji and plundered the cou…

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vengaiyin paaichal
Hi rahul trying to locate sunbird for you. venketesh > Wow!! sad that such a beautiful animal is being hunted to extinction as we > speak. > > Im reading Wilbur Smith's A Time to Die. A lion hunt and an elephant chase > are desc…

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srory of india by michael wood retelecast in discovery channel
-But his tracing out the address of a dancer with a 1000 year record stole the limelight

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Classical music shops in Chennai
> Thanks Venkat..where to buy AIR? And musicologist Sriram, the guy who wrote 'Carnatic summers'? What a wonderful book!! Air is selling its old recordings. sriram was a guest of honour on our PS function. he read out a review by kalki…

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Classical music shops in Chennai
maloo avm's shop still exists on ttk road old ones i think you can get from AIR as well as shruthiyalaya on oliver road. kindly specify genere or artistr and i shall ask musicologist sriram venketesh

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Mother of Sita
> 'Manager kadal la podanum' na - try the dasavatharam style... > or did u say 'manager kadala... ???' :) punning it he most creative of man's creations managera kadala podanum manager kadala podanum tamil was known…

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Mother of Sita
-Hi Madhu your writing reminds me of yesteryear member diwaker baskaran. check out his fantastic mails in 2005 venketesh

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Times of India - Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study
> Venkat, yes i was a fan of Revathi too :) BTW what is Ravana's son doing with Revathi and Saranya ?:)) aiyooo maloo i was talking about the names of daughters of my contemprories. i had a son so i did not go that way. >

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Mother of Sita
I guess good quiz questions of any era were to name the wives of lakshmana, shatruguna and baratha urmila mandovi and ???? mrs. janakar we are encountering for the first time one of the questions in PS function quiz was " there were 2 coupl…

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Times of India - Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study

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Times of India - Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study
-great analysis sathish many of my classmates named their daughters after top heroines of their college era. found a lot of saranyas especuilly when i named my son akshey people asked me why a sanskrit name? then i placed a small quiz before them…

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Dharma
Hi no offense meant but moderators decided this topic is getting too hot to handle no more mails on this subject will be allowed venketesh

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Times of India - Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study

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Times of India - Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study
Hi the more you read of logistics in those days its seems unbeleivable that one race dark in color and south of the vindyas and one race fairskinned north of the vindyas were battling each other and maintainng a seperate identity. to a southerner l…

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[off-topic] Man to become immortal by 2029: scientist
okay immortality and the next logical step of bringing back to life of the dead okay everybody back to work if you could bring back to life one person from history who would it be and why?

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water on the moon
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2008/07/10/ice-on-the-moon-score-one-for-tintin/

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PSVP Peruvizha photos
Hi Chandra why dont you post them in the group photos section ] cant open your file venketesh

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