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Civilizations!
Static civilizations die. Period. The only civilizations that last keep changing. Even the Japanese had to undergo the Meiji Restoration in the 1800s in order to get rid of the terrible lethargy that had set in because of being totally cut off from …

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Sculptures and Ruins at Mavalipuram By William Chambers :: SEVEN PAGODAS
I believe Madan makes a very good point. A couple of other names that readily spring to mind are Erich von Daniken and Emmanuel Velikovsky. von Daniken's main aim was to show that we had been visited by aliens centuries ago, and these aliens ar…

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Hi
Ponds "snow" ?:) Yeah a memory of our glorious socialist past!! Arun

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Hi
Welcome to the group Hari. You would rarely see a more esoteric collection of people than in this group. People from all walks of life united by their love for not just one man's literary skills but also a genuine passion for the history of our…

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Regarding unique Buddha statue..
Dear Madan, Yes, that's the one. Any thoughts? Where in Japan are you?

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Rangoon to Calcutta
Dear Sri, hehe ok .. I guess it has been inertia that has kept me from writing it..:)

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Kalki Vs Sandilyan
Dear SPS, That is wonderful to hear!! My wife says all Indian women ought to thank you for this :)

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Kalki Vs Sandilyan
Dear SPS, Yes, I am in Japan now.. a little town called Tsuruoka in the northwest part of Japan. It has been a really busy time thats all.. but I have been following all the many interesting debates that have taken place over the past few months. T…

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Kalki Vs Sandilyan
Dear Siva, Thanks!:) Arun

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Kalki Vs Sandilyan
The bombing of Rangoon touched me in a personal way. I have heard the story from my maternal grandfather. He worked for the meteorological office in Rangoon. One day, on his way to work, the air raid sirens blew, and they all ran to get to some tren…

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Pitfalls vs Glorification
Venketesh, My point was that one can arouse feelings of nationalism in others by recounting tales of "nationalism"/bravery from another era. Just because the nationalism implied in Kalki's historical novels were not the same as the F…

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Pitfalls vs Glorification
I think Nationalism has to be seen in the context of the time that the story is set in. Nationalism in our current time means the geopgraphical entity of India. In the Chola/Chera/Pandya/Pallava times, nationalism meant a love for the respective kin…

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questions K and L posted
Khajuraho and Lothal.

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Interesting article on south Indian craftsmen
That was a wonderful article. Thanks Gokul!

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REVIEW OF UDAYARKUDI INSCRIPTIONS :: AK's MURDER
Dear All, Lets revisit the facts again. Why do people believe it was Uthama? the facts as we know them. If I have missed some please correct me: a) Aditya Karikalan kills Pandiyan king and displays his severed head at fort wall b) Aditya Karikal…

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REVIEW OF UDAYARKUDI INSCRIPTIONS :: AK's MURDER
Dear Devi, What is the proof of this? Please don't quote Kalki as proof since his story is part history part fiction.

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REVIEW OF UDAYARKUDI INSCRIPTIONS :: AK's MURDER
Dear All, wow.. quite a lot of mails :) Looks like I really set the cat amongst the pigeons here! Dear SPS, I think your mentioning that this was a religious issue (or that I had made it so ) is IMHO fallacious. It doesn't matter WHY RRC bui…

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CONSTRUCTION OF PERIYA KOIL BY RRC
Dear SPS, I don't think this is a religious issue. After all RRC was just another king (however "great" his works might have been) and as open to interpretation as any other person. I never mentioned that RRC eradicated sin... lots o…

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REVIEW OF UDAYARKUDI INSCRIPTIONS :: AK's MURDER
Dear SPS, As I mentioned, RRC + Kundavai could have done it. True RRC was only 18ish.. but then we ought to take into account that he was already a battle hardened veteran by then. Also, the more I think about Kundavai, the more I get the feeling t…

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REVIEW OF UDAYARKUDI INSCRIPTIONS :: AK's MURDER
haha... maybe I should use Aditya Karikalan as my punaip peyar!:-D Seriously though, why isn't this feasible? Surely RRC was an ambitious person... his willingness to use force to expand his state's territory is a sure sign of that. Most …

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REVIEW OF UDAYARKUDI INSCRIPTIONS :: AK's MURDER
Shall I throw a a heretical thought here? What if RRC was involved? What if his and Kundavai's overarching ambitions led to his hiring some goons to kill AK? What if Ravidasan and co are actually innocent but RRC later on threw suspicion on the…

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photos of the meeting - 04.06.06 Sunday
Dear ALl, Would be nice to see some names attached to the pics.. so we can map names to faces.. Probably most people in the group know each other, but for people like me, it would be nice to know who is who. :) Regards,. Arun

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Indus Valley Script in Mayiladuthurai
Wow Sri, this is incredible... pushes back our known history by a couple of thousand years at least..

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AMBALAVANAN VIKRAMACHOZHA MARAYAN :: Pzhuvur Nakkan
Dear Shankaran, I don't see why we shouldn't compare politics today and in those days. Human nature has changed very little over the past thousands of years. The same desires, goals, lust, greed, love have driven human beings across mille…

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An interesting udaiyargudi inscription
Well if you ask me this is very fishy.. looks like Uttama was covering his tracks right? He happens to sell it to someone, who just happens to sell it to this Bhattan who then just happens to endow it to feeding some Brahmins (who were probably the …

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Have there been efforts to dig around Periya Kovil?
Dear SPS and All, Iniya Puththaandu VaazhthukkaL. Hope this year is even better for the archaeologists than the previous year was.

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Evolution of English Language
Fat chance there Rahul. After all aren't we the same people (tamils I mean) who want all the Sanskrit words expunged?;)

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Evolution of English Language
Catamaran = Kattu maram, Mulligatawny soup = Milagai Tanni soup = Rasam, anymore? AK

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British Rule
Rahul, I doubt if anyone is suggesting that in all our long history, the British rule was the best. I certainly am not suggesting that. I was merely trying to compare British vs Muslim rule and why our attitudes towards both these outsiders are ver…

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British Rule
Agreed... Indonesia and all had to flight a bloody war against the Dutch... I think the Brits in a sense were fairer than most (although we are comparing thieves here :)).

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