Hi poongkuzhali welcome to the group of course people would have mis pronounced your name. even local people have trouble with zha like mgr calls latha ( kayal vizhi) as kelevi kelevi in madurai miitta sundara pandyan) there was a discussion sometime earlier on a goddes with your name ( vandamar poongkuzhali) were you named after that or was it ponniyin selvan
oru thayir saathaththukkaaka ponniyin selvan kathaiyai ellaam congo naattil oru gujaraaththikku ( english yil) solli vaalkai nadaththum dhiwaker avargale
niir satrum asanthathaaga theriyavillai I really enjoyed 7th vallal--- mari. because of her you will need extra pages on your passport
best of luck in Burundi. you should read wilbur smith.he writes about all these countries