Ponniyin Selvan Varalaatru Peravai

Hi

the dredging of the sethu samudram is being delayed after being hit
by unforseen mishaps.
the main dredging machine supposedly broke up. the machine that was
used to recover the lost part also broke down.

is this a co incidence?
your comments please
venketesh

— In [email protected], “Rahul dhinakaran”
wrote:

Lot of statistics have been flowing on this:

1. The depth will not allow bigger vessals to pass through, which will
stick to existing route;

2. Slow movement of vessals will cause additional cost.

Atleast now we accept bridge built by Ramar era exists ..

Any progessive step benifitial to mjarotiy of masses should be welcome.

sps

the actual news item for those interested:

In yet another set back to the dredging work of Sethusamudram Ship
Channel Project, a giant crane sent to retrive the spud that broke
while trying to cut the “Ramar Sethu” or Adams Bridge in the Palk
Strait has also broken and a part of it had sunk in the sea,
officials said.

The spud of the “Cutter-Sucker-Dredger Aquarius” had broken last week
while cutting the bridge, dealing a blow to the dredging work. With
the crane also broken, the project was likely to be delayed further,
the officials said.

The 150-tonne floating tug crane “Thangam”, hired for several lakhs
of rupees a day by the project officials, could not pull out the spud
and broke in the process on Sunday.

The crane’s locking-key had broken and it would take another 10 days
to retrieve and repair it.

Officials were now thinking of bringing a bigger crane – Hanuman –
having 200 tonne capacity from Vishakapattinam to retrieve both the
sunken crane and the spud.

fantastic

what a co incidence.

but then I think hanuman had his share of troubles over the palk
straight.
a demon captured him with the shadow and nearly ate him up, remember.
it would have been a bye bye for our “aanju” but for his using his
brains that moment.

lets see if his namesake fares as well

venketesh

Hi Rahul

one big chunk of antartica went missing over the last month.
was in the papers yesterday or day before.
endangering the environment endangers us.
its easy for you land locked guys to talk sitting in cozy in madurai.
just think about us in the coast if the sea level rises and our dear
friend sivaram stays in santhome just off the sea.
venketesh

Why would you want to invest in a city which is near the
> sea and is hardly older than the newest architecture in Madurai!!

Hi Rahul
I beg to differ

chennai could even be older than madurai if valmiki as legends say
attained moksham here.( no where else is there a place and a legend
associated with valmiki for 1300 years- at the least for thevaram
mentions him in connection with thiruvanmiyur)
the song which vouches for valmiki is 1300 years old but then the
fact that this town was associated with him was a long established
fact even then. remember the dacoit turned poet is one of the
earliest known citizens of india.

not only age chennai can give a tough fight to madurai in literature
too.

kamban finished his ramayan here. some of the the best songs of
pattinaththar and vallalar were written here. valluvan finished his
kural here before he came to madurai with it.

when your madurai was a bastion of jainism chennai welcomed sambandar
with open arms and we even gave sundarar his bride( second one though)

one of the apostles of christ died here.

so, if chennai sinks in the bay of bengal a big chunk of history
goes. and also rahul be prepared for a lot of live in guests from
here.

venketesh

>

Msg # 7175

Broad divisions of the land to tabulate temples.

broadly
pandya naadu- madurai thirunelveli ramnad
chola naadu the cauvery delta upto tanjore( even karur comes under
kongu naadu)
nadu naadu- cudalore panrutti thiruvannamalai regions
thondai naadu( chennai kanchi chingelpet pondy even kalahasthi)

out of the 4 shaivaite saints manika vasagar came from pandya naaadu,
appar and sundarar from nadu naadu and sambanthar from chola naadu.
sekkilar who tabulated the stories of the saints and did yeoman
service to shaivism came from thondai nadu

I have to confess I know pretty little about the alwars.
sure andal came from pandi nadu and peyalvar from thondai nadu.
can some body list where each of the alwars came from?

venketesh