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breakthro in migration concept
Hello everyone, This is a very interesting thread and thanks for all the information and links! Another recent work on DNA and history was when archeologists in Lebanon found an ancient Phoenician site with DNA material. They were able to analyze t…
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v.suneeta
April 2008
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Sati in PS and Chola times
> - there are still some > > stories, such as `Horse and two goats' that one feels could have > only > > happened in a Tamil village. > > not so suneeta. i was in bangalore yesterday and right in the middle > of s…
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April 2008
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Sati in PS and Chola times
Venkatesh, yes, I also understood your mail as saying Kalki had the book translated for Ananda vikatan (by someone). Incidentally, you may have read `Gods, demons and others' - by RKN - a nice translation of Indian mythological stories. So one …
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April 2008
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Sati in PS and Chola times
Thanks... I had no idea Kalki had The Dark Room translated in Tamil for Ananda Vikatan. I am trying to imagine what it would have been if Narayan had translated PS into English!
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v.suneeta
April 2008
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Sati in PS and Chola times
Reading Kalki's Thyaga Bhoomi reminded me of R.K.Narayan's Dark Room which was written in 1930s. Wonder when Thyaga Bhoomi was written. The heroine in Narayan's novel is a simple submissive housewife (also called Savitri!) whose husba…
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v.suneeta
March 2008
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Kandanmaran in Suranga paadhai
Thanks! The unanswered mystery is part of Kalki's magic. Makes us all debate about it - unlike an Agatha Christie novel where all the answers are in the last page... The way vol. 1 is written, it is not obvious at all that Nandini saw Vandiyath…
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v.suneeta
March 2008
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Kandanmaran in Suranga paadhai
Thanks...I did think it had something to do with Kandanmaran returning by the suranga paadhai after sending Madurantakar and meeting Pazhuvettaraiyar and Nandini unexpectedly. I seem to have forgotten about his mistaking Nandini for Pazhuvettaraiyar…
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v.suneeta
March 2008
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PS in Comics..
Hello, I remember reading an Amar Chitra Katha on Raja raja Chola as a child. Funnily enough it had Nandini's character in it but it wasn't the story of PS either. Nandini was depicted as having seen her brother, the Pandyan king killed b…
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v.suneeta
January 2008
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Imperialistic Cholas Vs Imperialistic Europe
Hi, I guess brutality is subjective...But I read an article in the Guardian website last year by the India historian William Dalrympyle. He wrote about the total destruction and plundering of Anuradhapura by the Chola army (unlike Ponniyin Selvan!)…
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v.suneeta
January 2008
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