There was a feeling that new members were reading all the mails but were not getting themselves involvedwith the group. The tour proposed by Sps today would be a nice starting point to get to know the other members well and start interacting through the mails. So please find time to join the proposed tour next sunday.
If not possible another tour is being planned by May 2007(dubbed Vanthiyathevan Tour), which traces the route taken by Vanthiyathevan in PS. Hope most would find time to attend these tour. But you don't have to wait for the tours to send a mail, just send hello to the group, with probably about your views of PS and kalki.
There was a feeling that new members were reading all the mails but were not getting themselves involved with the group. The tour proposed by Sps today would be a nice starting point to get to know the other members well and start interacting through the mails. So please find time to join the proposed tour next sunday.
If not possible another tour is being planned by May 2007(dubbed Vanthiyathevan Tour), which traces the route taken by Vanthiyathevan in PS. Hope most would find time to attend these tour. But you don't have to wait for the tours to send a mail, just send hello to the group, with probably about your views of PS and kalki.
Off Late I have been reading a lot of mails(almost everything) from the members...
Am wondering if you can give the links to the short stories (if in case there is one!) that the members are writing!!
Learning a lot and it's been opening new dimension to the preservation of our culture and heritage...!
While there are non-performing half filled Vessels it is great to see some performers in here..!!
Though I may not be contributing anything, it's just good to be a part of this great community.
A brief intro : from Vellore ..banks of palar(where vandiyadevan and kanthamaran stood guard!).....did Engineering in NIT Jamshedpur...Writing Software is profession..!!!
(still) Reading PS from 7th std.... Would look forward to forming a Team for the proposed Trail anytime between May and June...
Well I have a doubt : What is the Vandiyadevan's city...is it Vallam near Trichy?
Or there is one tiruvallam near Vellore...on palar banks..!! it has a older temple suggesting that the city is old...
Which might make him not frm the then chola territory ? Which sounds logical to me!!
Am wondering if you can give the links to the short stories (if in case there is one!) that the members are writing!! =====================================
Group contains lot of writers. Please check www.varalaaru.com for Gokul's writings. If you dug the older mails you can get an interesting sci-fi written by Arun and another one written by Natarajan. Vekat's book Kaviri Mainthen (a sequel to PS)was released during the last book fair. Mr Dhivakar has released 2 books, Thirumalai Thirudan and Vamsadhara.
These are just pointers, not the complete list of writers in the group.
hmm...me too native of Vellore. To be precise ancestory is a village called Kadaladi near Polur. My father was born in Tiruvannamalai and hence named Arunachalam, a common name in NA, Tiruvannamalai district. My grandparets were settled in Vellore for more than half a century. Vellore Jalakandeswarar temple, a master piece of sculptures is worth seeing. Its inside the fort and hence called Kottai koil.
Heard stories that the lingam was removed from the temple during muslim invasion (if I remember during Tipu sultans invasion. correct me if I am wrong) and was protected in a secret place in sathuvachari, outskirts of Vellore. Only during early 1980's the lingam was brought back and consecrated.
Legend says that the English were so obsessed with the art work of the Kalyana mandapam in the vellore fort temple that they marked the pices and wanted to dismantle it and take it to England. When all the pieces were marked and all set for dismantling, the ship which came to take the pieces sank midway and hence the project was shelved. Not sure how far its true.