Before the Pudukottai trip, let us have a mind blowing session with the experts.
We are planning to arrange a conference on Rajaraja chozhan and Chozha kingdom. We are going to invite the experts ( pazham thindru kottai pottavargal ) in these subjects who give lectures, discuss on some controversies raised on the above topics and a question and answer session. The following are the guests to be invited.
1. Mr. Sundar Bharadwaj
The person who helped us a lot for making the itinerary for the Mudhal yaathirai and for this conference also.
2. Mr. Kalki Rajendran
Son of Kalki.
3. Mr. Balakumaran
The famous writer who wrote the book Udaiyar on Rajaraja chozhan.
4. Mr. Vairamuthu
The poet, who is interested in preserving the tamil culture and heritage.
5. Dr. Kalaikkovan
A doctor in Trichy and the founder of Dr. Rasamanickanaar Kalaikkoodam for carrying out the research on ancient temples and inscriptions. He only researched and identified that the vimaanam of thanjavur temple is not a single stone and many stones were merged like the pieces of an orange fruit.
6. Mr. Devamani Rafeal
A researcher who wrote the book 'Thamizh naattu kalaik koilkal' and researched many ancient temples in tamil nadu for more than 40 years.
7. Mr. Kudavayil Balu
A researcher in thanjavur Saraswathi mahal library and researching on olai suvadi and kalvettukal.
8. Mr. Thiyagarajan
A history professor from Ariyalur, who is very much interested in researching the tamil kingdoms.
9. Mr. Rajavelu
He is working in the Archeology Survey of India department and helped a lot to preserve the heritage of the old temples.
10. Mr. K.P. Vidhyadharan
An astrologer by profession, who is interested in tamil history.
The date for the conference will be 20-April-2003 Sunday. The programme will start at 4 PM and go for about 3 hrs.
The venue is to be decided depending upon the no of people attending. So, i have posted a poll in our group to register for the event. Please rush your entries before 12-April-2003. It will help us a lot to arrange a better and comfortable place for the seminar.
The following items will be sold at the conference hall.
1. The VCD of Mudhal Yaathirai 2. The book Udaiyaar by Balakumaran
An exhibition of amazing dolls representing the characters in Ponniyin selvan created by Mrs. Chitkala will also be there. You can see some of the dolls in our group's photos section.
Before that,
We feel that if we have an informal meet of our group members who are all in chennai, it would be better to coordinate well and discuss on any enhancement to the programme.
We all can meet on 14-April-2003 Monday ( Thamizh varuda pirappu ) at 4:30 PM. The assembling place will be Dr. Natesan's park in Venkatanarayana road T.Nagar, which is opposite to the corporation ground.
I hope there won't be any problem in identifying us as you have seen us in the photos and sun tv.
So, please vote for the registration as soon as possible.
With regards to your poposal to have a session with the experts on PS and related topics, i would like to give you the contact details of Dr. Geeta Vasudevan who is an advisor in Dakshina chitra. She has done a researh on Chola period esp. Raja Raja chola and also has authored a book on Raja Raja chola and Tanjai Periy aKovil. I met her during a seminar organised by CII, but couldn't interact much with her. she if it is useful to u .
Her Nos. are 24462435 / Mobile 98410-20149. e-mail id is mcfdak@md3.vsnl.net.in
Though i would like to participate in both the metting i am afraid that i may be in town during both the dates definetly on the 14th