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upbringing of ps charecters
-Hi Sampath its just that you can note something new everytime you read PS poonkuzhali i guess grew up without a mother. a father who was too busy lighting the light house. a dumb brother and an aggressive sis in law she makes up kolivaai pisasuk…

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thinnai pallikoodam
Hi my father studied in a village school where the tamil teacher would sometimes find a reason to cane everybody at the start of class itself.perhaps it ensured discipline till the bell rang but there must be something to it. that school has in its…

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thinnai pallikoodam
-there was this article two days back about a school in thiruneleli which boasts of alumini like barathi,voc and tvs. u ve sa seems to have taught in the school too. venketesh

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www.readersnest.com - Online Library in Chennai - Now Open!
Dear Madan all the best if shilpa does business as well as she sings you can get your lear jet sometime next year. do get in touch with me if you want to buy books in bulk from distributors. venketesh

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> These Romans are Crazy! > ~ Udanx Hi Udanx picked up this trivia from wiki His trademark phrase is "These Romans are crazy" in the Italian translation, it is "Sono pazzi questi Romani", which can be shortened to S.P.…

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09.09.09. Kalki's 110 th Birth Anniversary !!
Hi Pavitra

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-menhirs are found all over france and england like stone henge perhaps a link to obleix. obleisk is a egyptian pillar.

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09.09.09. Kalki's 110 th Birth Anniversary !!
kalki would have been 110 if he were alive today. exactly his lifetime years have passed for he died at age of 55 the hydrogen bomb was making news when he died and he included it in his last story. how many changes in this world after that. pity …

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Intercaste marriage during chola period
> leads to an Interesting task - listing out the titles and favorite idols of > the prominent rulers > > Mahendra > Mamalla > Rajasimha > ..... > RRC > RJC RJC- natraja. used chidambaram as a temporary capital. legend h…

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Intercaste marriage during chola period
-Hi my sons school mate , a son of a famous vaishnavite preacher would refuse to enter shiva temples in school excursions. how would such a boy know all this unless the elders taught him? the feelings still run deep.

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2 quick quiz questions shanthi 1.name The first French satellite, which was launched in 1965, 2' who appeared on the cover of Time Magazine for a special edition about France. the answers are same. asterix sometimes comic charecters ha…

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Intercaste marriage during chola period
> saivaites and vaishnavites were not different castes. at one point they may have been as different as different religions, i guess. notice in dasavatharam how all the villians are great shaivaites. especially in 16th century govidarajar repla…

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Hi Vijay fish seller family -unhygenix and bacteria venketesh

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Hi Shanthi what naming vitalstatistix, getafix, cacafonix can you for a moment imagine it was not written in english first? the best thing about asterix is you note something new everytime you read it. my favourites are the mansion of the gods, …

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> I am wondering why we have not discussed PG Wodehouse! > PG is one of my all time favourites. > I read it when i am between some serious novels. swaroop just that many of us are not reading pgw in this recession i would rate his 'd…

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sexist and naught nu sonnavudan ganesh seems transported to a different world right next query kalki was clearly an above the board writer when he came to all this kilu kilu stuff which was his most tough scenario where he avoided writing like …

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while on the culinary trail a television series with padmalakshmi on the foods of india. wonderful series for more reasons than the compere;) venketesh

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> Blyton may have been racist but as children we loved her writing.My > fav isWillow Tree Farm , is that the one about two brothers families a rich snob called rose... i forget the name though i feel enid stepped out of fantasies into the re…

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inter religion
-what other castes does kalki mention? kaikolar, ainutravar( a guild or a caste?)

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dennisukku illamayaa? but then when you start experiencing it with your own children then it becomes routine, ippovella fashion calvin thaan sir.

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-Hi maloo tintin explorers on the moon came 15 years before amstrong. there were so many eerie co incidences. the final straw was tintin finds ice on the moon. but scientist for 3 decades beleived it was impossible till recently ice was indeed disc…

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tintin and asterix 2 books that have nothing in common except their sizes asterix was french and tintin belgian the authors play a small tribute to each other in their books. a caricature of asterix appears in the carnival scene in picarros thomso…

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give you a clue one in pirate island( land of black gold) one in ayyanar temple( prisoners of the sun) venketesh

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i think she has more to her credit despite the racist/sexist stuff. dont you think sexist stuff is slightly better off than sexy stuff. i think most children read a 'sexy' book when they come across sheldon, then blyton seems meaningles…

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tintin in congo is being sued right now from wiki 'Tintin in the Congo has often been criticised as having racist and colonialist views, as well as several scenes of violence against animals. Hergé later said that he was portraying the naïve,…

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You are right maloo. racism should be seen in literature taking into context the years it was written in. a book is a mirror of its times. now my other favourite tintin is accused of being racist venketesh

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Dear swaroop with swine flu epidemic all over, i could relate to it with follet's book on the plague scenes. that was because i had read "world without end" appa, follet maathiri oru writer piranthu varanum!! venketesh

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