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vanthiyathevan trip
> Where u in the stadium during GRV's 96 against West Indies? Hi rahul I was.and it was the second match i was seeing. earlier one had been a ranji final, bombay vs tamilnadu. i nearly cried when everbody else got out and grv stood like …

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vanthiyathevan trip
Hi If we are not going on may 1st we could all have a meeting after the new year to discuss the date and modalities. is it okay? before that I request sps to analyse the travel plan and decide if it is possible to do in 2 days.

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vanthiyathevan trip
Hi can we all zero in on one weekend convenient to all in may. seems lotsa guys may not be able to make this in last week of april? venketesh

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vanthiyathevan trip
Hi Sathish think this following itinery though jampacked would work out friday night- take a rathi meena bus to kumbakonam. we can stay there. (swetha and sps have immense clout in that town. so they can arrange things over the phone too.) satur…

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vanthiyathevan trip
Hi Vk this was swetha's plan. actually i was hoping we could do it in august. we may not be able to retrace vanthiyathevans steps unless we have four days.kodikarai along with the rest of the places is what icausing the hassle. alternate…

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vanthiyathevan trip
hi Shiva welcome on board! our trips are a group effort. only accounts is handed over to some soft ware brain like sathish or sivaram. the brain storming is still on. keep observing the group activities and you will know the details venketesh

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Jotika as Mandhakini..
hi pungkuzhali and nandini do meet in chapter 47 book 5 of ps they are actually cousins you know. but they dont really talk. its one emotional circus in that chapter. everybody crying for everybody else. venketesh

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Jotika as Mandhakini..
sure she does in the last scenes . and in one burst of emotionality I think she says I will think of nandini as equivalent to my dead aunt( oomai rani) book 5 towards the end.

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Jotika as Mandhakini..
ennapa ithu. orey kudumba paattu scene aa irukku?

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Jotika as Mandhakini..
Yes Yuva it should provide an insight into how people have imagined the charecters of ps. it changes with changing times. sivaram is right. any one who sees jyothika in mozhi as a physically challenged girl will imagine mandakini like that. ve…

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vanthiyathevan trip
Hi swetha seems to be getting more and more eager for the trip. here's her itineray Day 1 ( 28-04-07) ====== Leave Chennai at 7 am. Breakfast at Arusuvai Arasu - ECR. Reach Chidambaram Temple at 11.30 am. Chidambaram Temple Darisanam. …

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vanthiyathevan trip
tirukovilur- no. we dont even go near it. but mahabs yes venketesh--- In ponniyinselvan@yahoogroups.com, "Balaji Pattabiraman (ETS),

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vanthiyathevan trip
Hi the following is what swetha has compiled. if people are willing to cut one monday this month end ( may 1 is a tuesday)it can be a comfy 4 day trip and no night travel. Here is the itinerary she put together. See if it is viable in the first…

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Jotika as Mandhakini..
Hi sivaram the co incidences dont stop there. in a recent movie called sillendru oru kaathal jo's name is kundavi. venketesh

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Details on Tamil kings from hathikumfa inscription of Ist century BC
Hi Sps tours entitled " in the footsteps of or foot falls of..." are fascinating. recently one chinese man retraced the steps of huan tsang from china to nalanda. national geographic magazine entrusted men with the mission of retraci…

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Jotika as Mandhakini..
Hi sivaram nandini and mandakini look so much alike and we find nandini using that to her advantage unknowingly. she terrifies sundara solan. so many charecters recall another face when they see nandini but are not able to recall from the depths …

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madan
> the western fixation 'on validity of > history'; if anything is in a book form collated and referenced, it must > be accurate. Yes sir. I happened to read THE LAST MOGHUL by Darymple and was stunned to see the last 60 page…

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IN VIKDAN MADAN's VIEW - VARALARU :: CHOL (ZH) A PASS
Hi Sps > 1. It is R Venkat who first posted the interview summary of Madan > and when we all reacted that Madan was not right, Venkat also asked > us to post one to Vikadan urgently as rejoinder. Hope Madan comes out with his reasons wh…

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madan
Hi Sri madan perhaps added it like a punch dialougue and he was wrong. he shouldnt have genaralised. there is abundant materiel on the later cholas and pandyas. in some time periods there is a flood, though the last ten years or so of the later pa…

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chola pass
Hi Nanda there is more evidence that this geographical feature has nothing to do with the imperial cholas simple reason- la in tibetean means pass there are a 100 passes in india nepal and tibet ending with the word LA. I list a few here Tanggu l…

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madan
This was Madan's answer in ananda vikadan. the question by Iraianbu IAS was something like why cant you write a tamil book on tamil like the muslim history book of yours "vanthaarkal vendraarkal" translated to the best of ability…

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chola pass
Hi yes sir. it may also be something else in the local language. cho seems to mean goddess in tibetan. everest means " mother goddess of the universe." the tibetean names for the 1st 2nd and 6th highest mountains in the world start with…

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madans answer in anandavikadan
do we know when we would have actually had Karikalan rule over the chola kingdom, no dates, we will not be able to come up with that. yes nandakumar, we do have excellent corabarative evidence for the later cholas. but none at all for early cho…

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Details on marudanayagam
Thank you but to be fair on the writer he never mentioned veerapandiya kattabomman. he just said kattabommanaik. all kings- (some 40 of them they claim) in the lineage of gettibommu must have been called with this pattappeyar. and word for word …

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madans answer in anandavikadan
Hi Sps I think you should find a way of transmitting the refutal in varalaru .com to MR. Madan.it would also give him a chance to mention his sources. if you write to the magazine concewrned too , they respond quite fast as I learnt last week. o…

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Some of the most powerful images from around the world
Hi the village was called 'my lai'. these photos turned the opinion of the american people against the war. the war was also symbolised by another photo. the evacuation of saigon.a pitiable thousand people trying to get away in one sol…

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Dinamalar - 800 aandugalukku mundhiya Chozhar kaala kalvettu
Hi Sps if 8th is okay with you, its fixed. we need you on this trip. venketesh

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Dinamalar - 800 aandugalukku mundhiya Chozhar kaala kalvettu
8th april is fine. 15th is too close to the new year

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Dinamalar - 800 aandugalukku mundhiya Chozhar kaala kalvettu
thiruvakkarai can be combined with maragatha lingam at thividasuram, acharapaakkam, and thiruvakkarai( along gst road) or go to pondy see thiruvandarkoil( a minature of big temple run by asi) then see irumbai where the lingam is in 3 pieces held b…

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Dinamalar - 800 aandugalukku mundhiya Chozhar kaala kalvettu
thiruvakkarai can be combined with maragatha lingam at thividasuram, acharapaakkam, and thiruvakkarai( along gst road) or go to pondy see thiruvandarkoil( a minature of big temple run by asi) then see irumbai where the lingam is in 3 pieces held b…

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