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Mohini Theevu
Hi maloo in mohini theevu the description of the ship crammed with smelly unwashed refugees sailing with lights off fearing the japenese u boats - the description was great his island story however was at best ordinary in his poorva janma sto…

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Malik Kafur
-Hi Vijay march 2010 both "kanchi" and "Madurai" ( tamil)should hopefully be released. this year I decided I would not race with the chennai book fair in mind well malik kafur , though on the wrong side was a phenomenal warri…

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my dinner invitations
> The problem i think nowadays is too much eating out and distractions not leading to lack of quality family time varieties of food that we are exposed to and the drudgery of cooking ( and cleaning up after that)are main reasons too. (…

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poompuhar once again

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my dinner invitations
dinner with..... bharathi of course- and i would have pleaded with him to take a parcel of food for his starving family venketesh

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Whom would you like to have dinner with?
> Does anyone have a choice of whom to have dinner with? My choices would be Amarar Kalki of course, Walt Disney and late actor Nagesh. maloo beat you on that i have had a lunch with nagesh, a few hundred cofees and quite some snacks. i was qui…

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Dolmen with petroglyphs found near Villupuram
Hi gift siromoney used to write about a dolmen very near to guduvanchery railway station. could it still be there? http://www.cmi.ac.in/gift/Archeaology/arch_tambaramhistory.htm venketesh

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So who was really responsible for Partition?
> > I'd like to point out one small point that articles like these either forget, > > get wrong or simply side-step: > > ms were > > the rulers of the country. The rulers and their chiefs were Muslims, so were > &…

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Churchill

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Thyagarajan
> > Thiruvarur main deity is Thiyagarajar. Also this is the birth place of > thyagarajar, muthusamy dhikshithar and shyama sasthri. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiruvarur > > > Rgds, > Satheesh kumar R Hi Sathees…

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Thyagarajan
Hi whats happening here? a sort of quiz? venketesh

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Churchill
Hi today a ruler with eyes on another man's territory would be abhorred and seen with utter distaste. mores have changed. even a man with the ambitions of RRC cannot be viewed as great if he lived today. venketesh

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Churchill
.the Bengal famine..1942 there are many theories towards it. the latest one by nobel laureate amartya sen but let me tell you theories are rubbish when it involved the death of 3 million people. it was a disaster. a blot in the pages of history fi…

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Churchill
> On the other hand..let us not let our overwhelming love of decency overshadow racism and underlying contempt of our culture and values. In othe words we have lot of people who write very eloquently - Dr Radhakrishnan, Nehru, even Mahakavi Bhara…

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Churchill
-Hi Vj the inherent superiority feeling comes to most races. and we were a conquered race. our capitals leveled our kings exiled. what more could you expect doesnt our own caste system endorse that. it may be contreversial but certainly the british…

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military tanks
l the tank wheel strips (what do they > call the metal belts that run around the wheels on taks?) to leave an > impression... tracks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_track

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military tanks

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military tanks
Hi had a chance to travel thro punjab on road delhi to himachal via nangal the tremendous investments on that main highway thro panipet and kurukshethra amazed me. i was told in wartime this road transports the bulk of tha rmy to the punjab borders…

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Churchill
HI TMS you should agree that churchills fellow countrymen did not share his virulence. gandhi met a host of people including the king on his trip there. venketesh

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Churchill

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Churchill
One is compelled to think what if they didnt' come and what if each state was on its own..perhaps more of culture would have been retained but a national identity lost..who knows really.. Hi Maloo very true. HISTORY SHOULD HAVE BEEN NAMED AMB…

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Churchill
churchill openly opposed indian independence on 2 counts. it would increase un employment in britian and it would cause civil strife in india. the latter was proved right venketesh

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Churchill
> Churchill did not think high about Indians or India. He is considered to be one of the greatest war-time PM and brilliant; but his biases and prejudices did find avenues to leak out. Hi but they were not short term biases. churchill was firmly…

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Thyagarajan
> Lord Thiyagaraj, as you know, is the principal deity of the world famous shrine at Thiruvayaru, thiruvarur you mean? venketesh

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kumbakonam trip
kudanthai, saturday sunday gentle climate, rivers are running full and lakes are brimming doesnt it give all of you a great idea????? (sari sari rahul, of course not greater than getting married ) venketesh

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what book are you reading now?
Hi i am quite interested in early years of churchill in india. reportedly there is a club there which has records of his unpaid bills. could somebody recommend a book on this. one of the very few politicians of the world to get a nobel for litera…

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shenbaga theevu
-Hi first of all where do we have coastal islands off tamilnadu i have heard of Kurusadai Islands off mandapam i think shenbaga theevu must be fictious venketesh

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what book are you reading now?
> dear Venketesh, > Little bossy girls exist everywhere, i think. > Kathie ya sure kathie, we have been talking about big bossy girls like the chola princess kundhavi and pandya princess nandini in this group so often. but kathie have yo…

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what book are you reading now?
> Both 'Dennis the Menace' and 'Peanuts' originated in > Northern Calif. where I grew up. They were typical of > suburban life in single story, spread-out houses built > around there. It was easy to visualize families…

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upbringing of ps charecters
> Venkat, i love the Calvin Hobbes comparison to Poonguzhali! > the more you think of it there are many similarities making up a best friend making up lovers the best friend or lover is a fearsome thing. a tiger or ghosts. perhaps the two …

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