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a historical subjective account?
I was talking of moral courage of the survivors, if there were no surivivors there would be noone telling us about the horrors of Hitler, and it is no mean thing to survive the holocaust conditions, far from just physical survival. Hitler did not h…

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a historical subjective account?
Hi Walasingham, there are better movies than Valkyrie on the same subject any way that is a different line of discussion :)) I only meant the many many individuals who resisted nazim with moral strength and courage, not military strength - they die…

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a historical subjective account?
Actually i don' think it takes a very smart person to understand British strategies and the western materialism was a pretty well known fact. What it took in the form of Gandhi was strength of will and the abilty to show life is possible with m…

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Gandhi statues
Venkat, no am not against the partition per se but I belive the British created the seeds of long lasting enemity and discontent when they created a hindu nation and muslim nation in other words splitting the country on religious grounds was a huge …

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a historical subjective account?
Well the basic difference between Nazi situation one always has to remember is that Hitler got elected to power - indians did not elect the British. In other words Hitler was successful mainly due to his people cooperating with him and that was hard…

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a historical subjective account?
Walasingham, very well written - although i do not agree that comparison to the west is what changed some bad customs on our side. The west definitely influenced our social thikers a great deal and we do owe as you rightly say some ways of life to t…

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Gandhi statues
Actually there is no saint who 'would not hurt a fly' - saints are human beings with some spiritual experiences and every one of them have had their dark sides. Gandhi's principles - raising the self respect of people and non violen…

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a historical subjective account?
Hi Srini, of course, point taken - two key words - social awareness and understanding that novels and movies are basically for entertainment, they are not history and not to be taken seriously. But from entertainment great things can evolve - like …

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a historical subjective account?
Actually Arun I agree with all that you said 100%, and we have talked this before too, RRC of kalki is a flat character with no nuances/gray areas/eveel than PS - no loose ends, less coincidences and rounded characters. As dear SPS said some of th…

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Gandhi statues
Hi Venkat, am not at all sure what you mean by the 'gandhi we know'? Every public figure has a private face to him, i think we talked once about the book by Gandhi's grandson where he talks of his grandfather's attraction to anot…

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Gandhi statues
Gandhi is a person, not a product :)) and very worthy of being considered so :)

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a historical subjective account?
The 'average' kind or more down to earth historical narrative would not be palatable to the masses. Considering that Kalki wrote in a magazine (and lived with the revenue!!) it would not be fair to him to criticise his high degree of roman…

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4th century buddha viharam - at poombuhar
Dear SPS - the guru parampara looks a lot like ISKCON literature..where did you get it? Thank you Malathi

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Tamil fiction and details
Hi Walasingham, I have the non detailed book with Nondipillayar, Kalayar kovil ratham and Nandavanathil or aadni...great books those were.. I have seen a kalki story in any non detail, that is interesting.. Forsyth btw was also a forerunner in desc…

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Gandhi statues
Wow Ganesh...what a list..yes Bangalore to remember was a great British colony down south due to the conducive weather and clean streets..the MG Road and surrounding areas are still referred to as 'Cantonment' by old Bangaloreans..

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Gandhi statues
There is a great big statue of Queen Victoria at Cubbon park circle, Bangalore. There are lot of debates to remove/replace etc but it still stays there (as far as I know),

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tamil history..
The Gandhi statue is Union Square, New York is a pretty famous one. Lots of indian couples even get married in front of it.Come independance day or gandhi jayanthi poor Gandhi has so many garlands there he can hardly stand :)) just kidding but just …

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tamil history..
Walasingham, a genuine study of war related tragedies is completley unrelated to gore and strategies used. Some of the best books written on the jewish holocaust say very little about the gory details only speak of the emotional/spiritual impact of…

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tamil history..
Hi Ganesh, there are many dimensions to this issue. Inter state politics is different from Immigrant politics and that is in turn very different from poltics of countries that have civil war going on over citizen rights. Let us not get into the last…

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Our Tamil Teacher !!
he he great one Venkat:)) Brother Rahul, I mean acceptance of women as human has a long way to ago, after all it took so many years to accept a black guy as president :)

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Our Tamil Teacher !!
Actually she does not laugh at karna - she rejects him as a non kshatriya and one who did not know his origins. Her rejection is also of course instigated by Sri Krishna who knew Karna's purpose was elsewhere. The spontaneous reaction of laugh…

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sanga kaala samayal
Ravi, i searched my collection - there is no reference of sambaram being referred to as ulutham paruppu anywhere (does not mean it does not exist). Sambaram has two meanings - neer mor or diluted buttermilk (sanskrit), and festivity (telugu). If I …

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Our Tamil Teacher !!
Of course Draupadi was the wife of a monarch (Yudhistir) - her mockery of Duryodana during the yagna was what led to Duryodhana's revenge and her dishonor in court - and subsequent bloodshed of the Mahabharat war. Draupadi's dishonor is th…

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tamil history..
Jean (now if you are a guy you better say what is your name :)) First of all 'war crimes' is a purely 20th century word, coined for mass genocide when there is an accepted/prevalent code of ethics in the world - most countries are expecte…

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sanga kaala samayal
Thank you Venkat, yes i have a blog in the works but lack of time..i have tons of material related to food history and definitely want to get it out sometime..Vairam and Vijay , great inspirations and not at all sure how they find time!! As far as …

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Our Tamil Teacher !!
Yes that is true, I only pointed out the destruction of cities/countries. Thank you Rahul!!.

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Our Tamil Teacher !!
Yes in monarchial societies the actions of the ruler determined the fate of the nation, that is why Helon of Troy, Sita of Ramayana and Draupadi of Mahabharat are deemed to have 'caused' the war - because their dishonor was equivalent to t…

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Our Tamil Teacher !!

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My Tamil Language Teacher
I learnt tamil in 1980s and some of my teachers were just ordinary people. By that i mean lower middle class, working women (since i went to a girls school) trying to make ends meet. My interest in tamil was fuelled mostly by my mother, grandmother,…

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