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umapathi sivam
Hi I always feel very proximal to kannadasan.though I have seen hm just once from a distance of a few hundred metres. the reason was our native villages are just a few miles apart and the "hotel kavitha" compound where he did all those …

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umapathi sivam

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umapathi sivam
Hi every song of kannadasan has a hitory annan ennadaa thambi ennadaa was when his brother al.srinivasan rejected a request for a 200 rupee loan venketesh

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umapathi sivam
> > Kannadaasan suits here. Theivam enraal athu theivam - verun silai enraal silaithaan. I should mention diwaker's opinion on kannadasan here. the last time we met, divaker said " kannadaasan nichchayamaa oru sithar &quo…

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Miracles
Hi Miracles are like visiting cards of the gods. they send it across. you may see it and prefer to call him inside or you could just tell him you are too busy to se him. miracles more than now in the past have enforced religiousness in people and…

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Trivia about kalki
Hi some more trivia on kalki have you people seen bhakyaraj's sundarakandam with banupriya. bhakyaraj is a school teacher and a self styled intellectual. on his nuptial night he will aks her to fetch a book from the rack- one he wants to disc…

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indian boomerang ...valai eri
very close to kodikarai is a small hillock looking into the sea. on it is a foot print -ramar patham. the size is so big a man with that print should have been the height you mention aanaa paavam . lakshmanan ingkeyum oru adi kullamaa?

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indian boomerang ...valai eri
She makes vanthiyathevan stay in a cave where she had evicted the former resident with a shark bone. pungkuzhali is not only a manifestation kalki's democratic outlook. she was also the bravest. venketesh

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indian boomerang ...valai eri
-In ponniyin selvan pungkuzhali fights a cheetah with a shark bone and kills it. i always feel kalki missed a golden opportunity while not including that episode directly in pS and letting pungkuzhali describe it as a incident in the past venke…

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Thirukattupalli
now you have confused me should it sound like a wife each in 2 places??

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Thirukattupalli
-hi there are two shrines with that name. kila thirukaattupalli near thirvengadu on the north side of kaveri. melai thirukaattupalli is what you are talking about. its nearer thiruvaiyaru, tanjore etc. kudamuruti river is formed here after a split&…

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Trivia about kalki
Hi all one mail about kalki sure does spur on a lot of activity in our group. I am working on a bio of kalki and find so many co incidences between his charecters and himself. kalki also had an elder sister( actually his father's first wif…

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Trivia about kalki
-Hi Vijay perhaps kalki thought of the novel's name first and to provide a justification did that "child overboard" incident. venketesh

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art links
hi you are allowed to take notes so how come they clasim money . but i was told xerox was 10 bucks a page my books are still here. pick it up venketesh--- In ponniyinselvan@yahoogroups.com, "Chandra

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Krishna Jayanthi / Sri Jayanthi / Jenmashtami wishes to all
AARAMBUCHAATUNGKAYAA AARAMBUCHUTAANUNGA starting from onam onwards festival season only upto pongal. i was told once that during autumn and winter when daylight is lesser and nights are longer, people get lethargic and depressed. its just not a …

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umapathi sivam
Hi dhivakar canyou englighten us on 2 more aspects of chidambaram the bhairavar changing copper into gold every night the jade natrajar( rathna sapapathy) also give me a nice source of info on legends of chidambaram.

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PK in Kalki...
> Shyam. > Hi think he did this picture on the computer. and there was the thakkuthal of karnan penultimate scene in the pic check this out http://www.kalkionline.com/index.asp venketesh

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art links
-Hi here is another link you can use roja muthiah library holding one of the largest antique tamil collections can be searched on the net http://www1.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/southasia/rmrl Chandra, the entire sudhananda barathi collection is w…

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lost city believed to be found - Pompuhar
Hi poompuhar today is a concrete jungle te design of some disoriented architect. what usually happens after an invasion or a natural disaster is that local people carry off the stones to build homes or walls. its a common feature all over the wo…

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Perur
8 temples of shiva are called atta viratta thalangal kandiyur is where he removed one head of bramha thirukadayur where as kalasamhara murthy he kicked yama > Yanaiyuri Portha infact one of the names of the lord is gaja samhara murthy

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Perur
Yanaiyuri Portha is one of the (similar to)"herculean tasks" of shiva kicking yama, burning kama, etc are the others there are temples for each of these deeds venketesh

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lost city believed to be found - it is said to be raided by rajendra chola
Hi back from a long drive down south. happened to see poompuhar. a long walk on the beach to the place where cauvery joins the sea. an on going operation is loading large granite stones along the sea to prevent incursions. wondered when the city w…

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Tiruchendur
Omens lightning strikes kapali temple rope car crashes to the earth in palani now a part of the roof collapses in thiruchendur. do we take them as co incidences or as omens>? venketesh

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Criticisms on PS-Consequences of not knowing our history well enough
Hi if you see sivagangai siimai he actually talks. but there is a legend of him being mute and encouaging his army by taking a fist ful of white chaff( ummi) and blowing it away. venketesh

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Criticisms on PS-Consequences of not knowing our history well enough

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Criticisms on PS-Consequences of not knowing our history well enough
-Hi All I have been deeply interested in history ever since my schooldays and as many said i had to search for details outside the textbooks. but then how many of us know the true history. we have been led by the movies and books in paths that ar…

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Madras Day
Hi most temples have modern lightning arresters the kumbams were supposed to be the original arresters. yet these things happen venketesh in 1940s sankaran koil kopuram was once split into two by a lightning or was it tenkasi? venketesh

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Madras Day
hi sandeep i do appreciate your sentiments. but madras day celebration include all of them. v.sriram cobducts musical heritage walks to the houses of eminent carnatic peoples residences (of 100 years back). meticulous research was done to find th…

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Madras Day
Hi Sampath we have older places in chennai than mahabalipuram. what we are celebrating is the concept of developing one city from a host of small villages. madras is an immigrant city with 99 percent having roots from else where. madras is not …

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Criticisms on PS
Hi literature like costume and cuisine will not have the same effect on different people. when we encounter literature not to our taste some choose to ignore it and some calling it decandent literature take the law into their hands along with a …

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