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lions in south india

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lions in south india
surprising news from the wiki Until the late Pleistocene (about 10,000 years ago), the lion was the most widespread large land mammal beside humans. They were found in most of Africa, much of Eurasia from western Europe to India, and the Bering l…

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lions in south india
can we be so sure that lions never were her in the past? there are so many legends abounding in the south for example temples like padmanabaswamy temple in trivandrum- a divya desam it has a legend of a lion roaming the parikrama after the temple …

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Aryan Dravidan Theory
Hi Sandeep >>>>One of the favorite theories of the Sri Lankan Sinhalese academicians and historians is that they are descendants of the Aryan race and are superior to the Tamils who are regarded as Dravidians. sinhalese are supposed…

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tanjai gopura kalasam n others
Hi the big temple by itself is a very big achievemnet 1000 years back. but a lot of myths around it seem to add magical prowess to it and its architects. i am sure the big temple stands because its design was well done as rahul says in the abse…

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tanjai gopura kalasam n others

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tanjai gopura kalasam n others
*inaccessible Chola murals inside the big temple hi the paintings are not so innaccesible. quite a few in our group have seen them. the tanjore group trip of 2005 we all went in drenched in the rain. venketesh

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tanjai gopura kalasam n others
Hi the talk of gold and all is fine. but has anybody calculated the cubic feet and tonnage of stone used in big temple? venketesh

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arthur clarke
Yes indeed in 1968, 2001 seemed like faraway. the movie was based onclarke's novel and he wrote the scren play along with kubrik in the words of the library of congress it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically signif…

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arthur clarke
His second home is Colombo. And he died there only. May his soul rest in peace. Dhivakar Hi actually from 1956 onwards sri lanka was his first home. he held citizenships of both lanka and england served as Chancellor of Moratuwa University- one o…

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did kalki visit ajanta
Hi vijay kalki seems to have visited both ajantha and ellora with artis maniam. exact dates not available but it was during his sivakamiyin sabatham days. his articles on these visits is in a collection called." nam thanthaiyar seytha vin…

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actor raguvaran passed away tdy
Hi science fiction writer arthur clarke passed away today. a famous series of his is named after hindu god rama. Rama is a mysterious extraterrestrial vessel that is the subject and setting of the science fiction novel Rendezvous with Rama by Arth…

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actor raguvaran passed away tdy
Hi vijay oru padam vida maattiinga pola? raghuvaran was a extremely good actor whose life should be a lesson to most. venketesh

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A proposal for consideration: PS Varalatru peravai
Hi Sathish we shall have 2 different events preferably on the same day. first time both co inciding may not work out. members will meet for the morning seesion. a teleconferencing with out station members can be had. in the evening session (afte…

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Temple Tour
> One Scholar a month is a good suggestion. > > We can take up certain published materials earlier and put them for > ready reference of our members also - Scholar-wise . > > Airavatham Mahadevan, Dr. Nagaswamy, Dr. Kalaikkova…

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Temple Tour
Hi shiva does have human forms in other places too. nataraja, thoniappar- sirkali , kala samhara murthy in thirukadaiyur, agora murthy in thiruvengadu. other than that a human form appears in temples where he promised agastiyar a vison of his marr…

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sujatha in anandavikadan
If I remember right, Sujatha's 'Srirangathu Devathaigal' has an > article about this cricket match. I think Sujatha mentions how happy > he felt seeing his photo in the newpaper the next day, though it was a > local match an…

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Temple Tour
Thirukandiyur, one theory that the golden palace built by aditya was here and not kanchi??? doesnt kandiyur have both a thevaram shrine and a divya prabandha shrine? Thirumazhapadi, gosh . you went to my favourite temple. did you see the d…

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sujatha in anandavikadan
Yes gokul ananda vikadan went out of the way to honour kalki on his death. inspite of the bad vibes between kalki and vasan they stopped a issue half way and printed kalki's photo on the wrapper. the one year of his articles came out recently…

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some photos added
oops sorry it must have gone on the personal mail venketesh

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some photos added
hi shanthi I am not sure if pune has a 18 hole course, but they must have small ones. and some courses with difficult putting must be in hilly lonawalla. venketesh > Hi venket, > i will when i get a chance-by the way any golf course …

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PS MEET
Hi Lets pounce on this offer kanchi, and the lesser known historical sites. cant we start by the morning and come back late by the evening. best is go by one route. and come back by another. venketesh

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pallava , chola temples in movies
server sundaram, may matham, have wonderful visuals of mahabs. kalangarai vilakkam has one neurotic heroine assuming she is sivakaami. venketesh

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thiruperumbuyam
hi that was great should we also not list the top ten things that changed tamilnadu the events must have had far reaching consequences even today here's my list not by importance but chronologically 1.building of the kallanai which made tanj…

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some photos added
> > Hi venketesh, > the elephant proof gate looks deadly. > shanthi. Hi added 2 more photos to the folder. venketesh >

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some photos added
Hi Shanthi its on the gates of the shanivargarh( fort of saturday(?)) its in pune. a small fort more of a picnic spot. the funny thing is the gate had cannons displayed next to it. so elephant charges co- existed with artillery in maratta times…

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PS MEET
HI Sps seethalakshmi madam is scheduled to visit during may. we need to check up. we need to give equal importance to literary as well as history. after all we are a literary grouping. why dont we meet vikraman, balakumaran or naga( ps serial) or…

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PS MEET
Hi why not something closer? we could all meet in chennai or go on a one day tripor we could do these two over 2 days. it could even be a trip to yali caves or something different like the hilltop pulipakkam chola temple near chingelpet. If the m…

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Kallanai
Hi always heard kallanai was the oldest functioning dam in the world. the oldest one is however in egypt. arent there mentions of kallanai during later cholas? then it should atleast be a 1000 years old venketesh

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Writer Sujatha died.
http://jeyamohan.in/?p=300 jeyamohan has known rajmohan aka stella bruce. lots of people praise a novel of the write " athu oru nila kaalam" the writer seems to have been known for a trade mark- kanniyamaana kaathal this was the tribute …

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