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Kaarthikaeya and Muruga
is not kalidasa's kumara sambhavam a poem based on karthikeya's birth. a theory that links parvathi shiva and karthikeya' people date kalidasa to even the first century Bc though he could be much later too. The Birth of the…

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Re Senni
is this senni like a head band something that mgr wears in adimai pen venketesh

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Palani Kumbabishekam
senni kula nagar vaasan is a kavadi sinthu by annamalai reddiar listen to it sung by sowmya or unnikrishnan and you will know bliss venketesh does senni malai have something to do with this ornament?

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ASI Restoration at kanchi : Old but interesting article
hi all 2 articles about archeology in hindu today one is aphoto of the scffolding at tanjore big temple. hope they take the opportuinty to photograph each statue on t he tower( that is if they have not already done it) the second one is further …

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British Rule and Commonwealth
kohinoor and the jagannath temple at puri The spectacular Kohinoor, or the Mountain of Light, was part of the booty of Sikh warrior Ranjit Singh, obtained during a campaign in Afghanistan in the 19th century. Ranjit Singh later crowned himself as…

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British Rule and Commonwealth
the brits took it from dileep singh the last son of ranjit singh the lion of pujab the poor guy converted to cristianity travelled all the way to london and 'presented' the kohinoor to victoria later he married an half egyptian or so a…

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British Rule and Commonwealth
-if somebody lays a legitimate claim to the kohinoor it could only be the pakistanis. lahore was its last residence. venketesh

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khanoji Angre - The Great Marathaa General
hi two or three firsts to his name for the first time i guess the english and the portugese had to pool in their resources to try to defeat him. and failed there is a story that he was the first to annex andamans for india but I think it is rat…

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British Rule and Commonwealth
one of my favourite quotations THOSE WHO FORGET TO REMEMBER LESSONS OF HISTORY ARE FORCED TO REPEAT IT I think it was santayana who said this. our history, whether palatable or not is something we must chose to recognize. and whats wrong in b…

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jewels of tamilnadu-Kohinoor
kohinoor from wikipedia the diamond was mined at the Golconda diamond mines during the rule of the Kakatiya dynasty and was first possessed by them. However, its soon-to-be-notorious ill-luck made an early appearance; the Kakatiya kingdom under …

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jewels of tamilnadu-Kohinoor
the name kohinoor was given by nadir shah the diamond had a legend before it however it ruined many men malik was a eunuch and escaped the legend said. it ruined ranjit sings family. even the british royal family the women were more succesful and …

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Unique Tradition
-yes it was called meyvazisaalai these people folowed a muslim saint and call themselves aanandar. there was a huge raid duing the emergency at their pudukottai premises. lots of gold was seized then aid thelocal rumours venketesh

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Cheras and Kerala
Dear Sri around 1320 when malik and tha khilgis had ran thro tamilnadu the only prevailing power here was the cheras headed by ravivarman kulasekaran. an ambitious king he laid stake to the pandyan throne also, on the basis that pandyas were his …

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marathas
Hi sathish shivaji was of course the founder of the maratha empire. but there were kings 10 times more powerful than him later. there was an amiable break up between 2 sections of their society. i think the bramhin prime ministers - the peshwas be…

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Evolution of English Language
> > We claim that Tamil is a classical language and has not undergone much > changes in the alphabets for 2 million years. 20 lakh years ago our anscestors were jumping from tree to tree. so tamil cant be so old. can any body list wh…

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Evolution of English Language
the cashew was introduced by the portugese in indai. so that story is obviouslywrong The Cashew is native to northeastern Brazil, where it is called by its Portuguese name Caju (the fruit) or Cajueiro (the tree). It is now widely grown in trop…

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india - a muslim country?
Hi sathish a plant is wilting in the garden. a gardener gives it a corrected environment to rejuvenate it. then who revives the plant? the gardener certainly has a role. but I also will not agree the british had a total role in the rejuvenation o…

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india - a muslim country?

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doubt.. repeated
my doubt... > > > First, regarding ponniyin selvan > what happens to chinna pazuvettaraiyar's daughter after the duplicate > madhurantakan goes along with the pandiya aabaththudavigal ?? on the day of ponniyin selvars propose…

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Evolution of English Language
I dont know how true the cashew nut story is but a similar thing happened in australia when the settlers asked the aborigines what the name of the kangaroo was they replied " i dont know( kanga roo in aboriginal language) that name stuck …

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Evolution of English Language
-Hi Suganya onto the usual habit of starting a thread and vanishing eh???? well the most popular word to have come out of tamil is guess CASH The word comes from kasu in the Indian language Tamil. perhaps the chola word for paisa venketesh

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india - a muslim country?
maratha history They first came into historical prominence under the leadership of Chhatrapati Shivaji in the 17th century. Shivaji Maharaj, born into the Bhonsle clan of marathas, secured an independent state by dint of lifelong struggle and th…

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Thevaram - insights
-it was appar who mentioned mayiaappu in the thevaram he sang about inthiruvotriyur. so mylai remained a vaiputhalam( one mentioned elsewhere) till sambandar came and gave it its own poompavaipathigam. very rarely are mortals mentioned in devar…

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British Rule
dear venkataraman dhivakar positive thinking is all good at individual levels but at the mega level murphy's law takes place " IF ANYTHING CAN GO WRONG , IT WILL GO WRONG"

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British rule Vs Muslim rule..
a system when women were financialy left at the mercy of society at large would definitely degenerate. but most of the ancient socities had them called the vestal virgins. devadasi system was rampant and lusty to the core for years. Uma should rat…

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British Rule
my god not switched on the computer for some time and "oru puyal adichu Onchiruchu" 1. we should first ask ourselves. was it possible for this land spread of india to be one nation but for british intervention? the answer is no. we ar…

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British Rule
-what about sati banning what did they bother about a few indians less and rahul, at that point there was no alternative to the british. one senile poet was sitting within the walls of delhi not even able to come out n the mornings. he was suppo…

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British Rule
whatever be the reasons behind i sincerely beleive the british tried to voluntarily improve india which no other invader tried here nor the british try in any of their conquered colonies( other than settled colonies like australia) why should a…

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British Rule

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British Rule
-India was a mad house in tht period so many guys striving to get a share of their cake. lets take the example of gingee fort such a small place so far away from everything had mughals, free lancing turks,rajputs, marattas, british and french vy…

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