Nice to be a part of this group. To introduce myself, iam Arun, a s/w Engg in Bangalore. I remember when i was twelve when my aunt started narrating me the story of ponniyin selvan and from then i have been addicted to it like anything. I have read it umpteen number of times as any other meember in the group would have and my fav character in the noevl is Nandhini. Ponniyin selvan is something i may never forget in my life because iam wondering if it would be my next career path. yes. I have been dreaming of writing a historic fiction for sometime now and have been postponing the idea because i thought i did not have the much needed experience. Finally one day this year, i decided to make a start and push things forward and see how it works out. The result was that i was able to come up with a framework for a historic fiction . I did not want to postpone things and so started writing it. I wondered it would be better to make it online and recieve comments as i wrote it. So i had to restirct myself to writing it in english. (though i would love to do it in tamil)
The novel is named "ilavarasiyin megam" (The Cloud of the Princess) and it has just started and 11 chapters have been written. It is available online at
Dear SPS sir; Everytime Nandhini is a topic in this group you start about TR.Rajakumari,Vaijayantimala&Co! ;) i dont know how many of our group members noticed this. ;) Yennamo ponga sir...
We - Bangalore PS Members- planned to meet on coming sunday at 4.00PM. Place :-Balista Coffee shop, St.Marks Road. We invite u for the same. Eagerly waiting to meet u.
Thats the beauty of both the character and the author. Just the mention of the name and voila... so many replies and it triggers so many different branches in our brains. Thats what Nandhini was capable of through out the five books and the only person, though attracted, got over it--VANDHIYA THEVAN--and thats the reason even Nandhini falls for him as someone who is unattainable to reach even for her with all her vilely charms!
So based on this decision only he didnt fall for Nandini."
Enna Dhiwakar, correcta....
By the way, for the group, Dhiwakars wife delivered a baby boy last week.
New members, if you feel bad about the above reply, request you to kindly look into the archives during sep-oct 2005 mails of this group. Each and every character was torn to pieces while analyzing them and Dhiwakar has a real good third eye which we all miss.
Sorry my mistake.. in my eagerness.. I just overlooked a simple fact.. one of my family friends have named their son Vanthiyadevan.. :) The guy was so obsessed with Ponniyin selvan that he had named his son so.. I bet dhiwakar will go for arul mozhi .. what say?
what a time we used to have last year when diwaker the pungkuzhali hater and nadarajan srinivasan- a pungkuzhali fan battling it out however diwaker never had a good word for any charecter of kalki's