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Kanchipuram
Muthu, don't forget the beautiful Vaikuntha perumaal temple, built by Nandivarman I think. Has 3 storeys and a very beautiful old kalayana mandapam. Malathi

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Ah..Ravi, you have to really befriend and talk to people for all those things to come out. I mean nobody will walk upto you and ask like that. If you be friends for a while you can understand what they know, which is often times downright stupid ide…

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Venkat, yes it does everywhere. Perhaps the hardest hit are young children in schools since they face radically different environments at home and school. The majority of immigrant parents do not think deeply about raising kids in another culture, t…

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I concur with every word Satish has said. It is one thing to appreciate/accept a foreigner for likeing and accepting our cutlure, but how tough that is one can only see if you have travelled and understood popular conceptions (or rather misconceptio…

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Please let us show some degree of caution while labelling american indians as indians or for that matter all people of indian origin as indians. I have learnt this the hard way believe me. Deepak Chopra once made a controversial statement that he wa…

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'Vasudeva kudumbakam'
Kathy, we are fortunate to have you among us. As Satish said you are a rare gem of a person and thank you. To others - 'vasudeva kudumabakam' 'yaadhum oore..', 'Sarve jano sukhino bhavanto'.. are all not particularly …

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DO YOU KNOW?
Satish, yes long story - Kitty was HR counsellor at Sonata Software which was a small company at that time. He did team building workshops and also helped several of us with his wise counsel personally. That is how I got to know him. I used to visit…

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DO YOU KNOW?
Yes that is true. Satish neenga polaris aa? Do you know Raja Krishnamoorthy a.ka. Kitty in HR there? Raja was a very good friend of mine. On a serious note, this type of correlating can lead to embarassments too. My father and a a mallu neighbor h…

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Ponniyin Selvan title
Thank you Venkat, so interesting!! Could you say more on Kalki's mother and mentor and how they influenced his writing? Thank you!! Malathi

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Regarding the PS group in Kalki
Thank you sir, am not Ravi but that is ok, you answered my question. Hope you get some positive response from Mrs Seetha!! My aunt is related to Smt Gowri Ramanarayanan in Kalki family and I have seen her many times as a child.

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Ambulimaama Archives
Perhaps 50s-80s itself were the golden era as far as movies go. How can we possibly forget the Sivaji-VR-Kannadasan trio as in the 50s and 60s? There is no tamil film music without them!!

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Regarding the PS group in Kalki
Yes, now Vijaya Hospital. Many old stars of Vijaya (NTR, Savitri) bore remarkable resemblence to the Raja-Rani drawings in Ambulimama :))

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Regarding the murder of Aadithya karikarlar
Same here, Hai Madhan sir, could you identify yourself for us newbies? Thank you!!

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Ambulimaama Archives
Actually to me 2000 - dawn of the cell phone and internet is the beginning of the fall and radical change. There are still people doing great things with technology - like Udanx's yahoo group for family, has inspired me to think of my own on si…

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Regarding the PS group in Kalki
Dear Sir, if you are still with Kalki, are there any thoughts/ideas about putting their old issues online - like Ambulimama archives? If they want to set up a fund for that I would be happy to contribute!! Thank you Malathi

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Ambulimaama Archives
Shoba, yes that is very very true, what you say regarding cities becoming concentrated and cost of living going up skyward. One NRI friend of mine actually adopted a small village in Punjab, a couple of hours drive from the nearest city - he has a b…

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Ambulimaama Archives
Yes me too!! My 'gramam' is traceable, but what would I do there for a living? I mean I am not someone who has stacked up a bank balance to live an idyllic life and would like to work till the day I die. I need medical facitlities close to…

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Ambulimaama Archives
Dear Shobha, my goal is the same, I think it is very important to give back to roots, as much as possible. Although may not always be moving there since there are many factors connected to that, especially factors around making a living. I am not …

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Ambulimaama Archives
I am very glad so many people liked it!! I remember AM for their pictures more than their stories, half page picture and another picture corner of right hand page with only the remaining written letters. The image of handsome Vikramaditya looking…

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: 3 D - portrait of Big temple
Very nice, thanks.

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Aswa Meda Yagam
If I remember right the Rajasuya is a celebration after all other yagnas including Aswamedha. It is a declaration of the king as emperor followed by pomp and celebration with guest of honor. I will check on this more later today.

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Aswa Meda Yagam
Udanx and Dr Sri, yes we all have a need to understand this better, perhaps. As Udanx said lot of rituals may not make sense in modern context. This horse sacrifice episode has offended several people's sentiments since we want to believe the e…

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Aswa Meda Yagam
Kathy, welcome back and good to hear from you :) May I point out some differences - the 'yaga' performed by Rama's father and Rama were for two different purposes, Rama's father was for progeny and Rama's was territorial …

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Aswa Meda Yagam
Udanx, I am not sure about the particular Aswamedha yagam you are referring to. In general Aswameda is an ancient rite referred to in the Ramayana (maybe other puranas also.). The king doing the rite does a yagna/sacrifice and releases a horse wh…

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Hearty Greetings :: Aadipperukku
Aadi perukku greetings :) I still miss the 'kadamba saadams' my grand mom used to make and the picnic lunches to some place near the water, not always cauvery, she made it a point we went somewhere to remember the prosperous times of th…

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Quiz answers
Bhuvana, very well done, thank you Swetha and please post more!!

Comment by dmaloo July 2008 permalink
Re : Old wine in new bottle
Welcome, another kovai vaasi:) I was also raised in kovai, although I was born in Chennai and lived elsewhere. Coimbatore as far as I know derives its name from its presiding deity Koniamman, whose original temple was banks of a river Siruvaaani…

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Mahatma Gandhi's assassination denied him Nobel Prize
I disagree. What you has to do with you and your personality, it is not possible to delink the two. I did not attack you I just said what you said sounded ungrateful that is all. And if you live abroad you develop certain perspectives that people li…

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Mahatma Gandhi's assassination denied him Nobel Prize
I am sorry Sampath, that is a very ungrateful thing to say for someone who gave his life towards a bigger cause and perhaps the only human being who never held an office and yet had his funeral attended by dignitaries the world over. Gandhi's i…

Comment by dmaloo July 2008 permalink
Mahatma Gandhi's assassination denied him Nobel Prize
Lol Satish, ennappa neenga, ellaam correcta sollittu do you have to end with another kamal blooper? Oscars *do* have a foreign film category and many films do qualify. The indian films nominated were mother india, lagaan and water. Water was made in…

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