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Chennai Book Fair - 2008
Hi venkatachalam the crowd was okay but because of too many stalls was dissipated. also the rains and the rather difficult approach to the main stalls were impediments. true buyers came at 11 and spent time till the evening. our members like v…

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Questions about SriRangam :: SII :: XXIV
Hi Shobha please do tell us about your long temple visit over last week. would be useful for future travellers. incidentally i am doing the same route on the opposite direction on wednesday, but in a rush - no time for temples. venketesh

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Stone Carvings
hi i incidentally crosed thirumayam fort yesterday. just stopped at the kottai bhairavar shrine. i remember being told the perumal - meyyappar at thirumeyam is bigger than arangan. cave temples starting from thirumayam, pillaiyarpatti, mahibalan …

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Stone Carvings
-no vijay i am talking about entire sides of existing temples in mahabs with parallel lines etched. what you are talking about we saw in mahabs quarry. venketesh-- In ponniyinselvan@yahoogroups.com, "Vijay Kumar

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Stone Carvings
-Hi Rajaram hope you took photos. also friends I wonder why there are are closely parallel lines etched on the floor and the walls of semi finished temples( especially mamallapuram) what were these lines for? venketesh

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jallikkattu
Sambandar Thevaram : Thodudaya Seviyan VIDAIYERI oar > thoovenn madhi soodi ... Thats a good one sps So ... the first line of our thirumurais speaks of a bull and yesterday on mattu pongal i had been to kapali temple. nandi was decorated wit…

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jallikkattu
Hi two jallikattu scenes in cinema, gemini in veerapandiya kattabomman, and rajini in murattu kalai. nice sport to prove your manliness i guess if your intestines dont spill out. but this water buffalo fighting is common all over the far east. ven…

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jallikkattu
Hi the logo of murosoli the flagship paper of dmk party is jallikattu. nice. the poems they write are about banned organisations, and now their logo is a banned item too. venketesh

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India from the other side of the fence -
sathish India is not as corrupt as african countries or others and some how corrupt money stays within the country fuelling a parallel economy and if you observe closely corruption is a generator of development. if a politician gets 10 percent o…

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Chennai Book Fair - 2008
Hi Madurai'la tamil book shopkku panjamaa? there is one full street of tamil books shops kalmandapam(????) Yes Vk I agree that people with the same old stuff found a very cold shoulder with the buying public this time. to be very honest boo…

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Help needed-chennai book fair 2008
Hi all of kothamangalam subbus books are going to be printed by vikadan prasuram. the info was given to me by Mr. Subbu's son viswanathan who himself was on the look out for some writings of his father I bought ponnivanathu pungkuyil by koth…

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Questions about SriRangam :: SII :: XXIV
> Is SriRangam a proper island? that Kindled a long time doubt. do cauvery and the kollidam join after srirangam. and in the northern end where the rivers split , is there any temple or religious significance? venketesh > > Does the…

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Seeking Guidance
-Hi Shoba kaviri karaiyil thala yaathiraiyaa? vishesham are you in trichy for long. some very interesting temples within. I ll mail you tomorrow on my suggestions. venketesh

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Mercury Lingam in Annanagar Madras!
I have lived in annanagar for nearly 10 years and havent heard about this okay Sri, have you seen the thithankara statue, right on the road exactly where west annanagar branches out into mogappair. its close to the srinivasa prumal temple. the s…

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Questions about SriRangam
somebody can provide information > > 1) what is the relative position(distance and direction) of > Chidambaram 248 km from chennai > Periya kovil 50 km from kumbakonam(?) > GangaikondaCholapuram between chidambaram and kumbakonam …

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Chennai Book Fair - 2008
Hi just back from the book fair. cM did not come because of the rains. but the stalls are open. 10% discount is mandatory. but many give a little more because of the change problem. I am repeating, there are 6 entrances and 6 exits. duruing the …

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Chennai Book Fair - 2008
Hi all Chennai Book Fair starts on 4th the friday. Cm is inaugurating it. the location is St. Georges school opposite pAchaiyappaas college on PH road. on holidays timings are 11 am to 8. 30 pm on other working days its 2. am to 8.30 pm. true book…

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parthiban kanavu - English translation
Hi has pavithras SS in english been published yet. and by whom? venketesh

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Iniya Puthandu Nal vazhtukkal
Hi happy new year everybody. and this is a leap year - so we get one more bonus day for our interesting discussions venketesh

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Imperialistic Cholas Vs Imperialistic Europe
-I think we would be moving away from the mainstream discussions if we move into this. just last month the moderators put an end to the discussion on a similar topic. i wish members would use private channels to discuss topics outside the aims a…

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Imperialistic Cholas Vs Imperialistic Europe
Hi there are quite a few inscriptions in tamilnadu temples mentioning the muslim invasion and that temples could not be opened for a long time. venketesh

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Imperialistic Cholas Vs Imperialistic Europe
> (Even under mughal invasion, our societal structure remained the same, > so that they could rebuild their kingdom) I would recommend that members read Khuswant singh's "delhi" novel to learn about hindu life under the sulta…

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Ancient pyramid found in central Mexico City - Yahoo! News
Some news gleaned from yahoo news on the pyramid copyright issue the egyptian opposition daily Al-Wafd published an article on Sunday called for the pyramid shaped Las Vegas hotel luxor to pay a slice of its lodging and gambling profits to the ci…

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Mayan civilization
> 1. Sankarachariyar's book where he quotes kalaprayan Hi just a geographical question? arent water and land usually positioned on either side of the globe. I have always heard that land on one side will have a sea on the other. can som…

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Ancient pyramid found in central Mexico City - Yahoo! News
Hi another point thats quite interesting is how can one copyright something that 3000 years old? i think copyrights expire after sometime. or is it a patent that the egyptians are talking about. venketesh

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Benazir - History repeats
-Hi sampath if you consider naxals as extremists we have them in areas with the maximum poverty in india too. also extremism is high in areas with huge rich poor divides and where people use the government machinery to create their own fiefdoms. …

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Ancient pyramid found in central Mexico City - Yahoo! News
Hi another news regarding pyramids. egypt wants to copyright the pyramid. they are angry that more people go to see the las vegas pyraid than their own venketesh

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Benazir - History repeats
HI I might sound a sour note on this occasion but we all have to think in historical terms. corruption breeds poverty and poverty drives more people towards religious fundamentalism and extremism if the above statement is acceptable then bebazi…

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Benazir - History repeats
Hi benazir knew about fate controling her life her famous quote "I didnt choose this life, this life chose me." really worth reading is Daughter of the East: An Autobiography (Benazir Bhutto) some trivia about benazir she was of sin…

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Benazir - History repeats
HI Muruganandams " feroze gandhi" is in the presses right now and will be released in the book fair. he too in the last page has written about the gandhi family in a similar way. he has said that except for feroze all his family died u…

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