Hi one of the best parts of sivakamiyin sabatham were the seeds kalki sows in the story for happenings beyond the book's timeline. the best example was the romance between nedumaran and mangayarkarasi. though they are very important people they come as side charecters in sivakamiyin sabatham.
it was a great visualisation of the early years of a couple we know little about. infact if there are a 100 tamils in history who have changed the way we live today thiis couple would find a place right on top. it was nice that kalki recognized the fact in his own way.
also sivakamiyin sabatham has so many charecters who had actually lived. anybody in history at that time kalki pulled in starting from huen tsang the chinese traveller. the nayanmars in the book include paranjothi, appar,mangayarkarasi, nedumaran and kulachiraiyar.
Kathai vithyasam thaan, aana Hanuman, Neelan, Jambhavan mahabarathathil irukkanga, inge oru sila char' will have some similarities but on the whole, i personally think they were modelled out of these epics (minus war scenes).
The book given by God to Man - Bagavad gita The book given by Man to Man - Tirukural The book given by Man to God - Tiruvasagam (reg. how one should be devoted to thee..).
After 5000 years, Gita is being used as case studies in Management institutes across the world.
Few months back, I read an article, which dealt with stress management by top notch CEO (not sure across India or the world). Most of them said they take the principles of Gita - do your duty, dont expect results. Profit or loss, keep your mind balanced...etc.
I heard Sunanda Parthasarathy has written a book called Krishna CEO... Analysing how lord krishna acted as a successful leader and as a CEO. A similar book called Jesus CEO is also there (read so in Hi Madan a few years ago). We may write Nandini CEO also based on PS. Most of the books are quite useful to our practical life, except SS :))
Bhuvana sagodhari, thank you. I agree with you on why people do not like SS is a little beyond me too.
I wanted to tell you one thing though, enakku sila samayam kashtamaga irukku, educated ladies thinking some characters are great like vanavan madhevi. A lady in any time who wants to allow her husband to be with someone else...adhulla ennanga periya perumai??? Sivakami was not a historical figure so whether the real vanavam madhevi was like that or not is not really an issue. And Kalki many times wrote to cater to audience taste of his time. Why did he not allow Sivakami to think like that? To be a second wife to Narasimha after he was married? No, she was too dignified and proud to become that way and I find it easy to respect her for that.
Munnam avan naamam kettal patri neengal solvadhu mutrilum sariye....sorry if I hurt your sentiments but I just wanted to share some thoughts, that is all.
Eithavan irukka..ambai novan yen? naan yaarayum nai nu solrathe illa... karanam ennoda oru Gurunaathar padi irukkar 'Nayirku adiyai kidantha adiyenai' solli...ethukku vambu.. bairavar kitta mariyathaya irkkanum. Joke oru pakkam irukka.. there is no question why any one shud take a critic personally, critics are the best thing to happen for any timeline.
Kilai kathai and charecters with PS were equated to MB and the story line of SS was compared to Ramayana. Avalo thaan...
Narasimha was the greatest king of that century he was much greater than Harsha himself. No one can change history as individuals or we need to be like the british and work hard at it (I wont go more into that now :-) ).
ootukara amma avanga amma ootukku poyirukangala? Back to form...keep posting.
nalla pesi vecha mathiriye mail anuaparaye...very good (appa now everyone will be confused. athane nakku venum).
When you earlier wrote that i called you and offered you a laptop as lanjam, I remember the arguments between Muruganandam and Divakar Baskaran.
For the information of the new comers....in 2005 (ayyoo. sorry to say..please refer archives) Muruganandam and Divakar used to bring in lot of new topics and fight over it tooth and nail.
appurama than thaniya pakkarache sonnanga....phonela orutharukoruthar pesi vechi preplanned debates natatharanganu....
antha mathriri inga yaaru comedy keemadi pannalaye???
and again, intha commentukke ippadi kova padarangale..... YOu all should read Divakars comment on Vanthiyathevan.. 'veetoda mapillay' was the title given to our beloved hero. Character assasination to the core.atha ellam padicha ivanga enna pannuvanga.... nenachale bayama irukku...
Ennaku ungala partha than doubt a irruku. Kiruba is coming after a long hybernation(kalyanam aana ippidithana??) and suddenly there is there is a surge of mails from you, so...