Dear Bala I think people misesed your point... Bala wanted each one of us to give their background and places of origin...folks
sridhar: Born in kundavai nachiyar maruthuva manai in TNJ..grew up in Coimbatore,Mysore,Vellore(read PS in 4th std ) ,ariyalur,TNJ Moved to madras for Medical college MMC...Surgical training in MMC.... UK cardiothoracic training in Manchester,Glasgow(Married Gomathi) Coventry,Birmingham....specilaist exam in cardiothoracic surgery... Two boys
Passion tamil history and historic novels..stumbled on to PS egroup....made a moderator...proof read PS for the project madurai....the bigtemple.com...now trying to do my little bit to REACH...
btw Chandra and SB there are a few brit whites who would like to contribute to REACH
so other than the time I am not removing someones lung or researching Lung cancer or driving 180 miles a day.....its history and heritage for me
atleast u two accepting my dream on linking people to wards missing link of our history and indian traditional knowledge system. hope our groups is such a disciplined and secured with high litrate and no junk from any one. waiting for 003
Nandakumar.S Born & Brought up: Chennai Origins: aazhivaaikaal village from near Tanjore Occupation: Software engineer Interests: Tamil History, Historic Novels, Books, Tamil culture Current Location: Seattle, US (expected to be here till Jul'07)
Sivaram S K Born & Brought up: Pattukkottai Occupation: Software Engineer. Interests: History, Historical Novels Right now i am put up at Chennai, enjoying the climate, company of some great friends and some amazing PS group friends.
Chandramouli.B Born & Brought up: Chennai Ancestral Origin: Tiruvarur Occupation: Software Engineer. Interests: South Indian History, Egyptian History,Historical Novels,English Novels, Novels by Devan. Currently in Blore, will be in Nigeria from april 1st week for 3-4 months. Privileged to be part of the PS group and the REACH team even though am unable to contribute much to these two groups.
Born and Brought up: Bangalore Ancestral Origins: Palakkad (mom) and Trancobar/Tanjore (Dad) Occupation: CEO of a food and nutrition consultancy Interests: Historical Novels I too am privileged to be part of the PS group and the REACH team even though am unable to contribute much to these two groups.
Arul Prasad Born at home on the fateful day when Skylab crashed into the pacific ocean (All the hospitals were closed). Grew up in Palacode, Sivaganga, Chennai, Nellore, Near Hampi (Vijayanagara capital), Coimbatore, Kanchipuram, Pudukottai. This moving around gave a lot of exposure to history.
Later on moved to the U.S for higher studies Working as a Planning and New Product Development Manager for a medical devices company at Charlotte, North Carolina. Was active in the early days of the group. For the past one year kept a low profile because of my obsession with MBA at MIT (Application rejected).
Passions--Tamil history, historic novels, writing news analysis and short stories (mainly in sulekha.com), environmental protection, and Thiruttu VCD-la padam paakkurathu. Promised Chandra that i'll do more for REACH but failed to keep my word.
I remember someone by the same name telling a similar story(i mean the skylab). Are you by any chance happen to study at Ramakrishna Mission, T.Nagar during
Rahul Dhinakaran Born and Brought up: Madurai. We have been in madurai for aruond 4-5 generations Ancestral Origins: a village near Palakkad Occupation: Own an engineering company, Kalki Technologies, based in Madurai. Interests: all things automotive and history mixed with fiction. Pure history however true tends to be tedious. Learnt a lot being a part of PS even though my contributions have been next to nothing.
> Born at home on the fateful day when Skylab crashed into the pacific > ocean (All the hospitals were closed).
some sky lab re-entry trivia for those interested
Following the last mission of the Skylab The Space Shuttle was planned to dock with and elevate Skylab to a higher safe altitude in 1979; however, the shuttles were not able to launch until 1981.
Increased solar activity, heating the outer layers of the earth's atmosphere and thereby increasing drag on Skylab, led to an early reentry at approximately 16:37 UTC 11 July 1979.
Debris was found between Esperance, Western Australia, and Rawlinna, Western Australia, 3134°S, 122126°E. One cow was killed. An Australian municipality, the Shire of Esperance, fined the United States $400 for littering. this fine has never been paid.
Skylab's demise was an international media event, with merchandising, wagering on time and place of re-entry and nightly news reports. The San Francisco Examiner offered a $10,000 prize for the first piece of Skylab to be delivered to their offices. 17-year-old Stan Thornton scooped a few pieces of Skylab off the roof of his home and caught the first flight to San Francisco, where he collected his prize. In a coincidence for the organizers, the annual Miss Universe pageant was scheduled to be held a few days later, on 20 July 1979 in nearby Perth, Western Australia. A large piece of Skylab debris was displayed on the stage.
NAALAI NAMADHE .. INDHA NAADUM NAMAdHE .. is our family song !
(tamil version of Yaadhon ki bharaat - procession of memories .. by former CM).. in which not only Pudukkottai - but also near by Pattukkottai - Devakottai also related.. !
Hi, Here are my details. Name: Y. M. Ragothaman Born In Chennai. Brought up: Chennai, Pune, Bangalore, Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), Delhi. Ancestral Origins: Tanjore Marathi speaking Tamils called Madhavas. My mother-tongue doesn't have a script but we write letters to each other in Tamil. :) Mom: Madurai Origin. Dad: Madurai Origin. Current Occupation: Doing 4th year PhD in Bioinformatics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Passions/Interests: Drawing, Painting, Indian Dance forms, Historical Novels, Kalki's literary works, Bharathiar Literary works, Science Fiction, Watching movies, Browsing Wikipedia.
I haven't contributed anything to this group. Hope someday I will.
Born : Sivakasi Brought up: Madurai Ancestral Origins: Both mom and dad from Sivakasi. But before my great grandfather, our village was near Eral, a place near Tuticorin. My great grandfather decided to move to Sivakasi to start a shop and that as they say, changed the history of our family! Occupation: Project manager in a MNC and a busy father of two (Sibi & Vanathy) Interests: Pretty much everything I can lay my hands on. Physics, eveolution, reading, local gods of south Tamilnadu, researching geneology, seinfeld and what-not.
Read PS when I was in eighth std and hooked on to it still.
Birth : Srirangam . Mother's roots in a cauvery side village near Musiri, Trichy. Father's roots in Neikkarappati, Selam
Bought up in chennai - ICF- My first short story was published when I was studying +2 - Violinist & vocalist - completed diploma in general arts
Engineering at karaikudi Alagappa college - College orchestra member - Worked as Engineer in Chennai - became Entrepreneur - Wrote a book on IT and released a CDROM on Indian Tourism - Did multimedia presentations for spencer plaza (Mangal tirth estates) & other companies
Moved to singapore - worked for several years in financial institutions - Reuters - TIBCO - Written several articles in IT in various portals - DQ week, ciol.com - availble in google.com under seshadri gokul or s.gokul - Delivered a lecture on J2ee in an international conference organized by Wrox in Mumbai
Passionate about Ponniyinselvan since childhood - first time I read the copy collected by my great grandfather who was a famous advocate in dharapuram...
Became an early member in PS group - spoke about the group in Singapore Oli 96.8 radio (transcript in files section) - Came into contact with active members - Met Dr.Kalakikkovan, Dr.Kudavoil and other scholars with the help of SPS - Joined kamal, ram, lavanya and krupa and launched www.varalaaru.com in Aug 15 2004, a day after I was blessed with a son
Rajakesari Novel was published in varalaaru.com (2004 - 2005) - several travellogues capturing the experiences with ps group members - short stories - second novel Paisaasam completed (2006-2007) - Next novel all set to go :-)
Jan 2005 - blessed with the opportunity to talk about restoration of paintings in thanjore premises, courtesy Dr.Kalaikkovan - came in contact with ASI - blessed again to work on one of the major paintings - partially restored and provided back to ASI after several months of work
Hi R.venketesh born and brought up in mylapore, chennai studied college in chidambaram my native place is devakottai, sivaganga and my roots are quite alive.my father after his retirement stays there and is building a large library there. I have great pride in coming from a family with a rich history. though primarily bankers and traders my family were also temple builders. my direct family built one gopuram in rameshwaram and rebuilt kalayarkoil,. my family trust still does a lot of work in kalayar koil. my extended family was involved in the rebuilding of nearly 20 thevara paadal petra sthalams. I have also visited almost 200 out of the 275 shiva temples sung about in the thevaram. Ps group has been a part and parcel of my life for the last couple of years and I have some wonderful friends here. friends who have helped me make my dreams come true. thanks for it everybody venketesh
Satish Kumar.A Born - Hindon, Gaziabad, UP (my father was in Airforce when I was born) Brought up - Chennai Education- B.Sc Physics from Loyola and MCA from Deemed University Kanchi. Occupation - Software, currently working in CTS Residing in chennai for the past 25 years. 1.5 year old daughter. Interest vary depending on my mood. More towards Hinduism. Reading books and good music. Love talking with friends. Nothing to mention in terms of contribution.
> Adding to Venkateswaran : He is keeping a Uthama Chozha period > coin ! sps
Hmm... is that so ? Only one coin was known to exist with text "Uttama chozha" - its impression was taken and then the coin was lost permanantly. That's what we hear from books
So what venkat posesses could be the lost coin ???
I saw a simillar coin in auction in www.ebay.com, when I was in the US a few years ago. I bid. But some one was always overbidding me by few dollars. After few hours the rate shooted up too high, i thought it is a trick and withdrew from that auction.
I saw another coin in another auction. I also came across a gold coin - quoted way beyond my budget!
For the sake of our group, I will try to retrieve it from my cellar, scan it and post it during a week end.
Name: Dhivakar V. (B+) Born at Chennai Brought up at Tirunagari (Sirkazhi), Chennai and Vijayawada Presently settled at Visakhapatnam Proud to have studied at RKM - North Graduate with Dip. in Foreign Trade-IIFT and Journalism Working as Sr. Journalist - speciality in Foreign Trade and Shipping - Professional articles getting published every week. Most of the Temples in South India visited. Tiruvenkaadu, Chithambaram, Srirangam and Tirupati - Most. Written two Novels (Historic) - Vamsadhara and Tirumalai Thirudan and got published through Narmadha Padhippagam Short stories got published in almost all weeklies and monthlies of Chennai based - recent past - Kumudham Bhakthi (My first article publihsed in Kalki)
My next Novel - Vichiththira Chittan is getting published in a month's time
Ponniyen Selvan Group Members - By the grace of God, I find every body in the group as very nice, matured. Let this group grow high and high with such members with great spirits and I pray God for same.
When I needed some important information, one of my friend sent a note on Varalaaru.com. Very valuable site and through this I became PS Member.
Name : Indumathi Bld Grp : A1+ Born : Thalikokottai village near Mannargudi (formerly in Thanjavur dist and now in Tiruvarur Dist) Brought up : Chennai & Mannargudi Present location: Taiwan... Will be returning back India in couple of weeks.
Profession: Software Engineer in TCS
Passions: Ardent fan of Historical novels and history and now expecting varalaaru.com so anxiously esp for Gokul's Novel. Still I haven't got a chance to read Venkat's & Dhivakar's novel. Like very much to travel esp to the places of historical importance. But above all I am a silent member of this grp. :-)
- > Thaliikottai certainly sounds like an ancient name. Need to check > > "Thali" normally refers to Koil. Kottai we all know - fort > > "Temple fort" or most likely a fort with temple > > Can you find any ancient stuff in your native village ? >
thats a very important point Gokul so many of our native places have names signifying a fort. devakottai, pattu kottai,gandharva kottai, pudukottai. would it have just signified a walled city?
Name : Arunkumar S (Arun) Father & Mother : Native of Thanjavur Dist , Nallur near Sunderaperumal kovil. Born : Thiruverumbur (near Erumbeeshwar koil where Gokul's Rajakesari starts !!) Father worked in REC Trichy (NITT), settled in Thuvakudi. near Thiru Nedungulam Temple main road (ancient temple)
Me a Engineer from Shanmugha College of Engineering. Working as Software Specialist in Bengaluru.
Loves to read any Histroical Novel.
Though i am active in reading mails in this group...i am bit slient in sending mails.
Somehow erumbiyur features in all of my stories. In paisaasam , my novel in the process of completion - I have placed a series of very important events once again in erumbiyur:-)
I am sure somehow this will come in next story also :-). Nice to know you are born there. There is an underground celler in this temple ! secret chamber !!
> Born : Thiruverumbur (near Erumbeeshwar koil where Gokul's Rajakesari > starts !!)
Now i don find any ancient stuff Gokul... But almost all the nearby villages end with kottai in that surrounding area
but lot of olden broken earthern pot pieces had been unearthed by the farmers and heard that it was brahmin area during kings time... mebbe similar like sathurvedhimangalam
but next to my village is mahadevapatinam which having a fort of a King starting with Mahadeva.... with agazhi and all.. Now only the big fort walls are thr and landlords doing agriculture inside it... also had sevi vali cheithi that there was a tunnel from the fort to Rajarajeswaram... am not sure to wat extend its true... u can locate this small village in colorful tamilnadu district map...