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TWo more cents, we have to respect forum decorum. So it is wise not to discuss those matters since most people do not seem to prefer. Second, regarding what Arun said, there is difference between cheap sensational gossip and talking about things th…

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Web - World
Arun ,yes I see your two cents, thank you. Regardless I think it is important to respect decorum of the group and also to realize there may be people who are still alive and related to matters we are discussing, not that celebrities are not used to …

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Web - World
Venkatesh and all, I completely agree we should not discuss personal matters and even more so if any of the concerned people are alive. I admit to be guilty of bringing up such subjects once in a while, although it has been related to clarifying cer…

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vantiyathevan
Mamallar was a king like any other of his times. I don't think his relationship with Sivakami was like AK and Nandhini. Nandhini and Sivakami were very different women, Nandhini was a selfish enchantress while Sivakami's affections were…

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vantiyathevan
enkatesh, my family was connected to many celebrities. I don't like to take names of those who are alive and also like to qualify rumors as rumors when possible . The kalki-mss story was a rumor. But the myth that she was 'happily'…

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vantiyathevan
Yes there are lot of parellels between SS and PS. Although SS has much lesser loose ends and is a complete, very well formed story than PS. I agree about other characters but perhaps not AK with Narsimha Pallava. Narasimha was very endearing to his …

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vantiyathevan
Thanks Venkatesh, that is good to know, perhaps Aniruddha Brahmarayar yes. Yes kalki was loyal to a fault to Rajaji, that is very true. There is yet another rumor that he was supposed to be married to MS Subbulakshmi, or rather sent his secretary Sa…

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vantiyathevan
Vanakkam Viknesh, azhvarkadiyan nambi is one of my favorite characters too. It is rumored that Kalki loosely based this character on Rajaji, who was another 'veera vaishnava' with great intelligence, Malathi

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Thyagabhoomi - that day and today
> That was a great imagination. But the real punch in > the story comes at > the last when savitri giving all her money and > joining the freedom > struggle, without which the story would never > achieved the glory it > has toda…

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Thyagabhoomi - that day and today
To write Thyagabhoomi today - most difficult challenge of all is to find a unifying cause such as the freedom movement. We live in an increasingly selfish, divided world, really even if we find worthy causes am not sure if it is worth giving up o…

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Payanam
Thank you for the correction Shoba. It is not Bharanidharan, it is Bhaskara Thondaimaan, my sister clarified. I think we are talking about the same book, although I doubt if the new book will have the drawings by Silpi which made the old one rema…

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Payanam
It will take some time for me to do it, the book is more than 500+ pages. Yes copyrighting may be an issue, I don't know. I think it is safe to post pictures and such, the pictures were not photographs, they were drawn by the great artist Silpi…

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Payanam
There is an old bound book, 1950s i think lying in my home. A serial named 'Thennaattu Selvangal' on old temples. It is authored by Bharanidharan, I think. My mother used to say he is the same as Mereena, the playwright who wrote many play…

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Sati in PS and Chola times
I would not mind contributing to anybody's thesis on kalki's female characters. For someone of his generation the women characters were very creative and very progressive. Let us start perhaps one per week, like we do temples. I will write…

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Sati in PS and Chola times
I second that..absolutely..kalki has made us teary in more stories than one, SS takes #1 for me atleast, Thyaga Bhoomi when Savitri reaches her father's home after so many hassles and finds it locked up, more when I can think of..

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Sati in PS and Chola times
Kathie, really nice to hear that!! I have often wondered at the fascination non indians have for his writing, i can understand English people perhaps since British culture is so part of what he wrote too, but american is so different!! It indeed spe…

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Sati in PS and Chola times
Yes the guide is a great story, I will maintain that Narayan was definitely a better story writer than Kalki for his simplicity in plot and total lack of cliches or coincidental situations. Kalki has a tendency to go over board with coincidences so…

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Sati in PS and Chola times
No april fooling, that is a true story and still talked about in family circles. This time while I was in India we did some attic cleaning and one of our findings was the marriage album of Kamala's first marriage to our relative, it literally i…

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Sati in PS and Chola times
Venkatesh, very distant relative only, nothing close. Laxman and RKN were very opposite in temperment, RKN was very much Gandhian like, simple habits always walked when he could, rarely if not never attended parties or high society gatherings and al…

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Sati in PS and Chola times
Venkatesh, I stand corrected on Tyaga Bhoomi timelines, thank you and also for the most interesting post on RKN and Kalki. RKN was distantly related to my Dad, so have seen him couple of times and know the family. I had no idea Kalki wrote foreword…

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Sati in PS and Chola times
Suneeta, Thyaga Bhoomi was written in 1948, soon after the freedom struggle. If I remember right Savitri does not leave voluntarily, she is asked to get out by her mother in law who constantly demands dowry and husband who has an affair with his Bri…

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PS and the ithihasams
Venkat, great subject!! Yes Kalki almost based every one of his heroes and heroines on Puranas, not just Ramayana and Mahabharat. Sivakamiyin Sabatham, to start with. Just like Ponniyin Selvar Arunmozhi has sangu chakkara regai and 14 years in ex…

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Sati in PS and Chola times
Yes Venkatesh, it is true. But if you look at the type of lives these women had, it is hard to hold anything against them. Widowed at 14/16, some married to men more than double their age, some carrying children when they are children themselves...i…

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Sati in PS and Chola times
Perhaps the most progressive of Kalki's women was Savitri of Tyaga Bhoomi, in my humble opinion. Savitri is cast out by her husband and his family when she is pregnant, without any money or anyone to go to. On her own she finds a distant relati…

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Sati in PS and Chola times
Satish, am not sure what statistics you are comparing, for one thing it is not related. Having a grand parent who tells stories does not mean she was treated well, my great grandmother was a mottai patti who told stories till the day she died. We lo…

Comment by dmaloo March 2008 permalink
Sati in PS and Chola times
Yes, well said Venkatesh. Upper middle class urbanites are somehow often confused between being positive/seeing what is good in culture and having empathy and understanding for what is not so good at the same time. Treatment of widows has improved …

Comment by dmaloo March 2008 permalink
Sati in PS and Chola times
Thanks Satish, I believe over time all 'history' becomes 'legend', that is mixed with imagination and morals/beliefs of the interpretators, as the Ramayana has. It has its origins in something that happened but nobody really know…

Comment by dmaloo March 2008 permalink
Sati in PS and Chola times
Sorry i didn't mean live for her son, i mean advise on understanding the transient nature of her life. Tara did indeed live for her son and later married Sugriva too according to the original Ramayana. She was very much like Kundavai, an int…

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Sati in PS and Chola times
Vijay, when a spouse is gone that too the way Vali was unexpectedly it is natural Tara should feel philosphical and talk about transient nature of life and so on. My understanding is that Rama advises her to live for her son and indeed that is the …

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Kandanmaran in Suranga paadhai
Rahul, Very well put!! I feel similar. Also just historically another example Arthur Conan doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes himself got so fed up writing of the same guy that he killed his hero in one episode. The angry fans went to court demand…

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