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Indian Flag
dear doctor; what is the purpose of having a separate flag for each state? It shouldn't be done just for the sake of having a different flag. If Canadians and Europeans have it, it is because there is not much of a difference between adjoining …

Comment by rahul_pentiumiii May 2007 permalink
PS trailer scenes
i just wanted to make a few small suggestions. Mr.Jayaprakash has asked whether this trailer would be for historyknow-alls or for the common man. It should be for the common man. Remember Kalki did not write this novel for history know-alls, he wrot…

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Indian Flag

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PS trailor scenes
hi to me the one scene which stood out was the introduction of Arulmozhi i.ewhere Vanthiyadevan and Arulmozhi duel in Lanka and VD does not know he is fighting the prince. The way Kalki describes Arulmozhi taking the horse from VD is stunning to say…

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MADAN ANSWERS

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MADAN ANSWERS
a nice piece by Madan. Its so factual and bereft of any emotions which we, especially those born and bought up in the deccan plateau, are so guilty of. I loved the piece where Madan descirbes the "virundhombal" by the kings to poets. The c…

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Introducing me
hello rahul :) ; welcome to this group. nice to have another Rahul in this group. It was getting a bit lonely :) :) :) Im sure you would learn a lot and have a lot of fun.

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[Hai Madan and well done Kamal
hi; just remembered something. A couple of weeks backmy father and i went to Udayalur agrahaaram for a period of 2 days. We visited most of the agrahaaram houses there. In one of the houses i saw a big bunch of really really old palm leaves. The own…

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[Hai Madan and well done Kamal
hi; looking at the lighter side of things its really quite funny that the king who the time to build some of the biggest structures in the ancient world, conquer far away lands dint have time to just sit down and write about all this. All he had to …

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[Hai Madan and well done Kamal
hi; this reminds me of the scene in Imsai Arasan, where Vadivelu is posing for a painting of himself but with the body of a wrestler. He says "Varalaaru miga mukkiyam amaichare". The kings of those eras would surely have exaggerated a lot…

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Facts of History
hi; Writing a book about RRC without quoting from poetry would definitely clear atleast some part of this issue. It should be a historical account writing in the style of the Asian Society books and not in the historical-fiction genre. Every importa…

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vanthiyathevan trip
hi mr.venketesh; Even now when my father and his cousins get together and chat about cricket the GRV innings is always mentioned. They even remember the headlines in The Hindu the next day.I saw a few GRV innings through the BBC footage, it was ama…

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vanthiyathevan trip
I meant GRV's 97..sorry about that. Typo

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vanthiyathevan trip
its amazing.. inspite of the arrival of TV.. the old school folks still prefer radio... Chandrasekar's yorker!! Never seen him live but saw BBC footage.. an amazing cricketer. BTW there is always one innings Chepauk regulars cant stop talking a…

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New memberships
hi; this is with reference with new members sending thier join request multiple times. I too did the same thing when i joined this group. One reason is that the mails i send to the group of which i am a member should also come to me as im one of the…

Comment by rahul_pentiumiii March 2007 permalink
Some of the most powerful images from around the world
dear mr.dhivakar; great photographs. most these are award winning ones. especially that 1972 Vietnam war photo where a plane accidentally bombs a village. This was taken by Nick Ut and this actually bought to light the horrors of that war to the am…

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Kaviri Maindhan
I have a question. The genre in which Mr.Venketesh, Kalki, Alexander Dumas are writing in historical fiction. I think the focus should be on giving a fantastic adventure (like PS, 3 musketeers) and not focus too much on the historical details. As l…

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Bala's Request
Arul & Sivaram pesuradha kekkum bothu yetho padam paakura maathiri irukku. Mudiyala. Rahul

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Bala's Request
hi 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 auto…

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ECR Trip Photos Uploaded..
sivaram; it was just a thought not that i have any concrete evidence here. Maybe because my handwriting is horrible i felt that there was no way anybody could write (let alone sculpt!) that beautifully :) :) Another reason was that in that the curve…

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ECR Trip Photos Uploaded..
hi sivaram; nice photos. The fort photographs were good and the one named "beautiful handwriting of the sculptor". Im not sure if the scultor used the chisel to carve the letters. I think he must have used a template made of steel which ha…

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18 th trip
Hi; This is great. Im really jealous of all the trips you guys are making. Hope to join you sometime in the near future when time permits. PS: Looking forward to viewing the photographs.

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interesting warfare before BC!!
Im sure most of the members familiar with computer games would have played or heard of the game called Age of Empires (there are 3-4 parts of this game) by Microsoft Corporation. Its quite exhaustive and brilliant in the portrayal of warfare before …

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A common reader's perspective of Kaviriyin mainthan
Im sure KM is just the start and Mr.Venketesh's best work is yet to come.

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A common reader's perspective of Kaviriyin mainthan

Comment by rahul_pentiumiii March 2007 permalink
who went the farthest?
I wonder how Madhan justifies his views. Doesn't the presence of ports like Thondi signify that the kings of that era had contacts with other countries? Upon regularly trading with one country like China one of our kings must surely have piad a…

Comment by rahul_pentiumiii March 2007 permalink
who went the farthest?
hi; just a question ignorant though it may seem. The concept of Lord Shiva's abode being Kailas has been there for centuries even before Rajendra. Now Kailasam has been described as a snow capped mountain (i hope im right). For this concept to …

Comment by rahul_pentiumiii March 2007 permalink
[Forward]: Slowdown culture
Mr.Venketesh's views are totally accurate. Ive just experienced this first hand. My vendors in Coimbatore are facing severe labour shortage. They are unable to find machinists, etc. Thier labourers are shunning these skilled (but tough) jobs fo…

Comment by rahul_pentiumiii February 2007 permalink
Cleopatra :: Yahoo News
Have the original cd with Elizabeth Taylor playing Cleopatra. Trust me i dint see anything wrong with this Cleopatra! ;) ;) But the movie was quite horrible!! Only the last few war sequences were good.

Comment by rahul_pentiumiii February 2007 permalink
Madurai Tour !
Jigarthanda by Kalki Technologies, confirmed. Mr.Venketesh maattividardhula periya aalu.

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