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book fair 2010
you're making my mouth water, even tho I don't even know what half those foods are. . . Kathie

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Toilets
Dear Malathi, Your grandmother must have been quite a woman! Kathie

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chennai trivia
"Bulldog, bulldog, bow wow wow, Ee-li Yale, bulldog bulldog, bow wow wow, our team will never fail -- when the Sons of Eli break thru the line, that is the sign we hail -- Bulldog bulldog, bow wow wow, Ee-li Yale." {Yale 'fight song…

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Books
Anyone read 'A Toss of a Lemon' by Padma Vishwanathan? I'd love to know how accurate it seemed, from the view-point of our more enlightened readers. I found it very moving, but also very sad in its depiction of a Brahmin widow's …

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Toilets
Did I miss something, or is nothing said about what to do with the feces? In Changa, GUJ all was left in an attractive line along the side of our road each morning. Kathie

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The fort and moat around Big Temple [9 Attachments]
Thank you so much for the photos, Selvaraj. Busty! Kathie >

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Downfall of Chola Dynasty
Dear Venketesh, Who was that Raja from MP, [raja jaisingh] ? kb Kathie

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Downfall of Chola Dynasty
I was amazed to see on a Website map of Mughal territory, that they held Gingee briefly. Amazing! Kathie

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Rev St Shree Ramanujar
Dear SPS, Don't Indians sometimes use the word 'sant'? I was just up at Melkote last Jan. so have shared a place with Sri Ramanujan. I thought the AdiSankaracarya's Sringeri Mutt had to be moved to Kanchi for safeKeeping, but I m…

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Picasa photos
Satish, Arvind, Mouli, Thiru, VJ, & Sreedevi, Thanks to all of you for your kind words! I'll be adding more photos all the time. Kathie

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Picasa photos
That's lovely, Satish ! I had a strange, not pleasant but memorable, incident at Pullamangai, also -- 12/95. I travelled alone that winter, exploring sites I'd seen photos of in my India archit. 'bible' : J.C.Harle ~ AAIS ~ Pen…

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Picasa photos
dear Satish, Yes, the children are the best; I'm so glad to see all over India, such lively, healthy-looking kids. I'll look for more among my photos and put them into Picasa. Thanks for the compliments. Kathie

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Woodz Steel
Thanks for the info, 'Kalinga' Kathie

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Woodz Steel
Dear Sri, Where were the Indian steel foundaries ? The Metallurgists? I'd love to put the location in my database. Kathie B.

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Madurai Mennakshi Temple Virtual TOur
Dear Ravindran, I was there in 1/07 but the temple is so confusing, thanks so much for this link. It helps get the relationships of the various shrines straight. Kathie ps is that bearded, breasted murthi actually supposed to be Arjunar, in his Mats…

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Its a funny Video but with a messg - the Grandmother is super
That's really sweet, Vijay. Really liked it. Kathie

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Deepavali passions
Dear Venketesh, my favorite PGW books were those featuring PSmith, with the silent P. Kathie

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Invading the Sacred
Shalom, Shanti, Saalam - good on you, Mr. Barack !! Kathie

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A good effort.
Dear Raghavendra Prasad, I enjoyed that Virtual Tour website, too, but it almost made me air-sick. I felt as if I was in an airplane doing loop-the-loops. Maybe its because I don't play video games. . . Kathie

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Mother of Sita
BhuDevi ? Nirad C. Chaudhuri talks of human sacrifice, cutting a fertile woman[virgin?] into pieces & burying them in the fields for good crop yield. Anyone have that reference? Kathie

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Dharma
Dear Ravi, Since you mention 'Red Sox nation' does that mean you're in the Boston area, too? Kathie

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[Poetry In Stone|கல்லிலே கலைவண்ணம் கண்டோம்] Srivatsam - the mole that adorns the chest of Vishnu |தி
Dear Vijay, This VISHNU Srinivasan won't enlarge, & stay in focus. Sorry it's so small. It is in jpg, as are all my transmitted photos. Just let me know what sites you'd like photos of, I'll let you know, & send them if …

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what book are you reading now?
dear Venketesh, Little bossy girls exist everywhere, i think. Kathie

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Spare the rod and spoil the child..
Dear friends, I went to a Girl Scout summer camp in the Sierra Nevadas in California, and in my unit, summer after 5th grade [10 year olds] we had a tough but funny woman counselor, nicknamed 'Foxy'. If you were slow getting up, she'd…

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what book are you reading now?
Dear Sunder, Both 'Dennis the Menace' and 'Peanuts' originated in Northern Calif. where I grew up. They were typical of suburban life in single story, spread-out houses built around there. It was easy to visualize families like t…

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what book are you reading now?
Dear Venketesh, Could the book about an American couple touring India have been by Eric Newby? He wrote several -- one nice one was "Slowly down the Ganges." Is that the man? Kathie

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what book are you reading now?
Dear Malathi, We have a few Enid Blyton books in the Lincoln Public Library, MA. Kathie ps who wrote the 'Boxcar Children'?

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what book are you reading now?
Dear Sri, I've been away, too. Didn't you think it was rather unbelievable in "Shantaram", that the author was so badly injured, then just picked up and went on? Kathie

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Kannappar
Dear Satish, I believe the only bee that, aerodynamically, shouldn't be able to fly is the Bumblebee, not the common honeybee. Kathie

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roots above
Dear Mathikumar, WOW, that's really early for So. India! Do you have any photos of Murthis from? Here's a photo of the perfect Natesha, from Kuram -- is this the same site? What I love are early 'murthis' -- earlier ima…

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