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GOLDEN AGE :: INDIA
Dear Satish, You got me wrong. I never said that our ancestors wereńt great. At the same time I am against attributing most/all scientific advances/knowledge to the ancients. Sure they were good engineers and like I said their mathematical skill…

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PK, SS & PS - Kalki
Dear Natarajan, I disagree. I don't see Sivagami as an "egoist". I think of her as a girl with spunk, with individuality, with some attitude and oomph. Maybe traditionally Indian girls are not supposed to be like that. But I prefer…

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GOLDEN AGE :: INDIA
Dear Satish, Just cos HG Wells wrote about the time machine, doesn't mean it existed at that time. Similarly, just because Valmiki mentioned the Pushpaka Vimanam is NO proof of the existence of a flying contraption at that or any other time.…

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GOLDEN AGE :: INDIA
Dear SPS, I think that the ancients were not as dumb as we moderns seem to think they were. They were quite well developed at least in mathematics and also in medicine (eg Susruta's works on surgery etc). I think they were fairly good chemi…

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GOLDEN AGE :: INDIA
Dear SPS, I think that we the ancients were not as dumb as we moderns seem to think they were. They were quite well developed at least in mathematics and also in medicine (eg Susruta's works on surgery etc). I think they were fairly good ch…

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Kalki's Methodology
I personally liked Sivakamiyin Sabatham as a story, better than PS. SS had a more taut storyline IMHO. Then again these are personal choices.

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GOLDEN AGE :: INDIA
Dear SPS, I had read about 4-5 of Erich von Deniken's books quite a while back. INcidentally I think he is thought of as some sort of a crackpot by the intelligentia in the US. I think Carl Sagan wrote some sort of refutation of his ideas. …

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Koparakesari - meaning... (Sanskrit?)
Dear Sampath, You make a number of "observations" intending them to be facts but unsupported by any evidence. Do you KNOW that Tamils were not pirates? Is there something inherently great in being a tamilian that would preclude one fro…

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Koparakesari - meaning... (Sanskrit?)
Hi All, I think we are falling into an error here. I have noticed several posts and over several days and the argument goes thus: "Oh Pulavar A said this about the king so the king must be good" or "Oh the pulavars have spoken abou…

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Selfishness - Vijayalaya - present day politics
Dear Venkat, First, we are not reading a historical novel per se. It is more "historical fiction" which means that most of what happened in ponniyin selvan is the imagination of the author, but based around a few of the facts. However, …

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Selfishness - Vijayalaya - present day politics
Subbu, I tend to agree with you. See it is this way: I believe that human nature hasn't changed all that much in the many thousands of years that have passed since we came down from the trees. THe same factors such as greed, jealousy, love,…

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gangaikondan
Agree with Satish. I think the main reason the Pandyas don't get much attention is the lack of "historical" evidence. ThiruviLayaadal Puranam is fine but it is not exactly verifiable history. Which is one reason that the Pandyas la…

Comment by sillybuffer April 2005 permalink
New poll for ponniyinselvan
Aah that way! In that case Aazhvarkadiyan for sure.. but then that isn't a fair assessment, since Aazhvarkadiyan Nambi was a central character in the story and obviously was going to get the better "dialogues" :-)

Comment by sillybuffer April 2005 permalink
New poll for ponniyinselvan
I don't think Kalki's point was to have any one "party" win. He was trying to prove the futility of this whole Shaivaite-Vaishnavaite fight... by having Vanthiyathevan intervene in the middle and sayijng he couldn't care …

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what does siva patha sekaran mean?--corrections by Dr.Jaybee
Ok here goes : Arun = Dawn .. figuratively.. literally.. Arun/Arunan is supposed to be the charioteer of the Sun God. Thus in the morning when the Sun God's chariot is supposed to ascend the horizon, you won't see the Sun God first.. Ra…

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Could Rajendra Chozha have differed over the Building of Periya Koil?
Well ok, I agree the Kadaram expedition - Periya Koil link is farfetched and it is something I kinda made up on the spot. But wouldn't it be interesting to know if there actually were opposition from Rajendra for the Kovil? Maybe some inscri…

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Could Rajendra Chozha have differed over the Building of Periya Koil?
Dear RajendraChozhan, Point taken. What I find interesting though is the fact that A) we can't say for sure that RajaRaja was wholeheartedly in support of Rajendhra's kadaram expedition (or are there sources out there which actually s…

Comment by sillybuffer April 2005 permalink
Could Rajendra Chozha have differed over the Building of Periya Koil?
Dear Sri, Ok.. here is my Scenario (or rather Balakumaran's). Raja Raja, when he decides to build the Periya Kovil is fairly advanced in age. At the same time, Rajendra who has had to possibly live longer in the shadow of his illustrious f…

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Could Rajendra Chozha have differed over the Building of Periya Koil?
Aaah.. but he probably built the temple at Gangaikondachozhapuram when he got to HIS middle age.. :) See his mindset might have been different then, especially after seeing how wondrous the Periya Koil turned out to be.. so you can't use tha…

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Danaikkan kottai & other things
Dear SPS, Unfortunately, since I don't live in India, meeting you all in chennai this summer will not be possible. Anyway, I shall broach the subject to my friend and see what he says. Also, please call me "Arun" or "AK".…

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PS Discussions
Dear SPS, A close friend of mine is a cartoonist for the Economic Times. He is not a tamilian but I can ask him if he would be interested in coming up with a weekly cartoon strip, based on a script that we can come up with. If you want, I can as…

Comment by sillybuffer April 2005 permalink
why are they fanatical?
As an addendum.. someone mentioned Carnatic Music.. For me personally, I tend to listen more to instrumental Carnatic rather than vocal (unless it is Nithyashree Mahadevan). Then again, I realized that one of the reasons for that might be that al…

Comment by sillybuffer April 2005 permalink
Saraswathi Mahal
Dear SPS, Thank you so much. Hope this catches on and other museums too take recourse to cameras to make visiting such places a pleasurable experience. Thanks once again! Arun

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A distressing incident at Saraswathi Mahal..
I guess what was galling to me was the fact that this happened at a place of historic interest, inside a museum. Surely, things ought to be more secure there than outside?

Comment by sillybuffer April 2005 permalink
A distressing incident at Saraswathi Mahal..
Dear All, Just a minor correction. The incuident happened at the Museum and NOT at the Saraswathi Mahal. My apologies.

Comment by sillybuffer April 2005 permalink
let us find truth behind this
HI Sampath, I do know Bengali. It is true that Jana Gana Mana was written for King George V. I personally think Vande Mataram should be our national anthem but then the "secularists" will be up in arms over it! *sigh* CHeers, Arun

Comment by sillybuffer March 2005 permalink
Civilisation
ok ... let me add what I know about the current theories on how the Universe began... First of all..this breaking down of elements into earth,fire, water, air and space is outdated (I think it was also prevalent among the greeks). The most commonly…

Comment by sillybuffer February 2005 permalink
Script found inside urn at Adichanallur..
I must share with you all a conversation I had today with a north indian colleague. We were having lunch and I was lamenting the fact that we hardly knew anything about North-east India's history. Then I went on to state that this was the same …

Comment by sillybuffer February 2005 permalink
Script found inside urn at Adichanallur..
Dear Sri and Veena, I have read Romila's Early History of India (read it a long time ago though). My impression at that time was that she was for the AIT. Maybe I ought to go back read it again. I have read a number of her articles and she un…

Comment by sillybuffer February 2005 permalink
Script found inside urn at Adichanallur..
Dear Sri, The fact that no script has been found yet in the north older than Ashoka's inscriptions does not mean no script existed, just as the fact that before the script in the urn, no script of such antiquity was found in Tamizh Nadu. We m…

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