abhivencat

WHO IS BETTER EDITOR
Hi kalki was a merciless "vimarsakar' especially when he reviewed movies. p.U chinnappa was getting fatter by the day and kalki remarked, soon he will fill the entire scren and we will have to call him p.u periappa. but people who live i…

Comment by abhivencat December 2007 permalink
WHO IS BETTER EDITOR
Hi kalki must have been a great editor. h e would have been better off if he did not support rajaji so much. in fact when rajaji was invited tobecome chiefminister of madras state rajaji refused. kalki wrote a huge article on how it was demeani…

Comment by abhivencat December 2007 permalink
The Royal Temple of Rajaraja
Hi Venkat I too beleive that they were contemprories. when you dont have evidence to the contrary we should beleive our legends. I guess if we find the earliest mention of thirumurai kaattiya vinayakar shrine within the temple we can confirm the…

Comment by abhivencat December 2007 permalink
WHO IS BETTER EDITOR
Dear Maha i gather Kumudam Started in 1947 by Late Mr. S.A.P. Annamalai and his close associate late Mr. P.V.Parthasarathy, kalki passed away in 1954. sadasivam even wanted to stop the magazine after that byut was persuaded by rajaji not to. k…

Comment by abhivencat December 2007 permalink
WHO IS BETTER EDITOR
Dear Maha could you first compare the magazines KALKI, KUMUDAM AND VIKADAN of those days.

Comment by abhivencat December 2007 permalink
VIKADAN - KALKI - KUMUDHAM
-Hi Pavithra three cheers, or should it be six cheers one for the appearance of our star editor especially when we have commenced a discussion on editors of the past and another for your fantastic endevour. historical fiction for kids? why didnt…

Comment by abhivencat December 2007 permalink
WHO IS BETTER EDITOR
Hi maattikkalaam illai its totally a fresh subject and many here havent even thought of comparing the editorial capacities of the three. but as far as I know, kumudam and kalki were highly succesful because the divorced the aspects of creative a…

Comment by abhivencat December 2007 permalink
WHO IS BETTER EDITOR
Hi there were accusations that kalki suppressed talent while in vikatan, in some issues there were as many as 8 of kalki's productions. atleast 3 in different pen names and the rest without a by line. and mahadevan's question seems a…

Comment by abhivencat December 2007 permalink
Kaveriyin Maindan
muruganandam " feroze gandhi" biography varattum. appuram theiryum aadu thali aattuthaannu venketesh

Comment by abhivencat December 2007 permalink
asi news on conservation
> > > > Article refers to issue of demolition of toilet block etc near > kerelanthagan gopruram. Was this the same you hd highlighted couple > of weeks back. I was there last week vijay. the main work is going on the two store…

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
Varahi temple in periya kovil
-Hi SpS There are Pallava period 2 pillars also inside the Mahamandapam of Big > temple. what do you attribute this to. cannibalsitic architecture I think they call. even in egypt pryamids were stripped to build new ones. venketesh …

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
freedom at midnight
Ya the size deterred me too. but royaltysharing witht the common man is wonderful. didnt know that before. venketesh > Is Paris burning and O Jerusalem are also worth a read though I havent suceeded yet > Regards > Sri >

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
kalki's life
-Hi kalki and sadasivam met in jail. two terms they spent together. kalki became editor of anandavikadan and onhi s recommendation sadasivam joined as advertisementmanager. that too he left soon. he was runing around promoting his wife M.S in the…

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
nilakanta sastri
Hi Sri, SPs and kripa I suggest we disallow this british - indian topic for now. I think its derailing the actual topics the group is being run for.

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
nilakanta sastri
Hi Pandyan this is getting a little exasperating. one simple answer is all the great historians from whom we quote worked as professors under british funded universities. in fact they studied in the similar colleges too. now can you explain how …

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
Kaveriyin Maindan
Yes SPs not enough info on one of our greatest historians. why dont you check up authors bio in "colas" we could get a link from there. venketesh > > Dear Venkateswaran, > > Venkat is asking for KAN details.. > > s…

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
Did RRC looted maldives and lanka, similar to britishers?
Hi > The argument is like this - > If you remove/disparge all Sangam/Tamil Kings contribution then there will be no concept of family, language(grammar) or writing(script) to talk of. Tamils would have been living like animals. > …

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
Did RRC looted maldives and lanka, similar to britishers?
hi pandyan if you remove all british sources / archeologists trained by british, from your history books, hitorry will be the easiest subject to learn it would have comprised of 40 page book. venketesh

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
PS related books
Hi only kalki's books amongst historical novels is available for free downloads as it has been nationalised. most of the others are still covered by copyright. venketesh

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
Did RRC looted maldives and lanka, similar to britishers?
Hi Pandiyan what slokas are you talking about? artha sastra? I think artha sastra lost its relevance soon after it was written. it even gives suggestions on what the king should do in the morning, the noon and the evening.I am not sure how many ki…

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
Did RRC looted maldives and lanka, similar to britishers?
Hi there are no rules governing war. if either you live or die in the end of the day you dont follow rules. dont get carried away by the mahabarat or ramayan serials. people fought with all their cunning and tactics in wars. ban on night fighting a…

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
Did RRC looted maldives and lanka, similar to britishers?
Hi how can war not affect everybody in a invaded land. you should read kalki's sivakamiyin sabatham to know the rules concerning loot. in the penultimate chapters where the pallava riducules the aged chola king for collecting more than what h…

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
Did RRC looted maldives and lanka, similar to britishers?
-Hi just like amar chithra katha panel. venketesh-- In ponniyinselvan@yahoogroups.com, "Vijay Kumar

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
nandini again
kalki's storyline was best at solaimalai ilavarasi. the screenplay was a work of genius. in ps. 95% goes according to a set story but then at one point he could not justify nandini's evil I guess.especially as a freedom fighter. the sam…

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
nandini again

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
nandini again
Hi nandini was kalki's sarukkal if there was one. if kalki had written as a novel perhaps he could have corrected it. but then he wrote in weekly instalments which a lakh and ten thousand people( 2 readers per copy) had read already and reg…

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
Did RRC looted maldives and lanka, similar to britishers?
sundara pandian repays the cholas in the same > coin - while invading uraiyur and tanjore.....large building > complexes are set ablaze and he too destroys the chola > palace,throne - grounds it to dust, and ploughs it using a donkey &g…

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
gandhi's mode of action
Hi venu i think its just not worth the time to to read your long mails with high sounding words fixed opinions. it tests one's patience. others have dropped out of trying to converse with you and so shall i. you certainly are not a man of fe…

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
gandhi's mode of action
hi gandhis last moments were described by the people standing closest to him in the most differing ways. not assumptions based on godse's version. what i am saying is based on a full scale research for a set of books we are planning on gandh…

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink
gandhi's mode of action
INTHA VAARAM CONREVERSY VAARAM........

Comment by abhivencat November 2007 permalink

More Comments

Howdy, Stranger!

It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!

About

Username: abhivencat
Joined: July 2005
Visits: 0
Last Active: March 2013
Roles

Ponniyin Selvan Varalaatru Peravai

abhivencat

Howdy, Stranger!

About

Top Posters