All those who are participating in the trip tomorrow,
The final details are as follows:-
Wehave unfortunately two drop outs in R Venketesh and Ashok. While RVenketeshhas said that, if possible, he may join us later directly at Mallai, we will be missing Ashokbadly. Nevertheless,giving duerespect to the situations which forced them to opt out, let us carry on hoping them to join us later at their convenience.
A. Van Pick Up =============
7.30AM -->Saidapet Bus Stand (Pleasewait near the Amman Temple. TheVan will be waiting there) ============================================================================ 1. Shriram Rajaram 2. G Lakshmi 3. B Chandramouli
7.40AM --> Park Sheraton / Old Adyar Gate Hotel (Pleasewait right in front of the Hotel) ==================================================================== 1.REACH Chandrasekar 2. Natarajan 3. Sriram (ASI)
7.45-7.50 --> Mandaiveli Terminus (In front of BS Hospital on RK Mutt Road) =========================================================== 1. Mr & Mrs Nandakumar 2. V Venkatesh (Myself)
B. Car from Thiruvanmiyur ==================== 1. Venkateswaran Kasirajan 2. Mr and Mrs Murari Krishna
C. Personal Car (Will follow the van from Mandaiveli) ========================================= 1. Professor Swaminathan, his Daughter and Son-in-law.
As indicated by SPS sir, the cost could be between Rs 500/- to approximately a max of Rs 700/- which will include for the Van, Breakfast and Lunch, and the wallet permitting, the entrance tickets also.
I am rushing from outstation to attend the progrm. In case I get delayed, will try to join directly at Mallai .. having stand-bye arrangement to reach mallai.
pls put Vehicle number / Van driver mobile no. also.
very best wishes for making all the arranagements so well.
An organized trip from the group after quite a long time, with lot of people. The last few trips were almost private trips, like just 5 members going in one car...
I am going to really miss this. I will try to call SPS or Chandra sometime during the trip, so that I can say atleast a 'Hi' to all..
Already my mouth is watering thinking about 'Arusuvai' pongal and vadai.. :(
First for you. The attachment is exclusively for you. (Unga kaadhula pugai theriyudhu)
All,
The trip was really excellent. Got a lot of insights in to the wonders of Mamallapuram. But as aptly said by Prof. Swaminathan, we had not even completed 40% of Mallai in this trip. So there should be a sequel to this in the near future.
Prof. Swaminathan's guidance and impressive way of presenting the works, added more flair to the entire day. Believe me, in the morning session, we were spell bound for 3 hrs when he took us around starting from the mini elephant bas to Trimurthy Caves, to Durga Cave, to Koneri Mandapam, the Varaha Cave, Ganesa Ratham, the Citadel on the top, Ramanuja Mandapam (a complete Misnomer) and Dharmaraja Mandapam.
Though considered as a protected site, the negligence that we saw yesterday, on the preservation of important inscriptions in the Ramanuja Mandapam and Dharmaraja Mandapam are really heart-breaking.
One question, very aptly asked by Prof. Swaminathan at the end of the day is, "WHAT IS THE STEP FORWARD AFTER THIS INDUCTION". We need to do some thing about all these and I plan to discuss more on this in the upcoming days.
Many of us took photos and would like to know which would be a better place to put all those photos in and what is the best resolution. Will a VGA resolution (640x480) be enough as it can be viewed best on the screen? Or if a full size one is required, then please suggest a good site for those photos.
Prof. Swaminathan, also came forward to share all his works which he has "parked" in 3 gmail ids as follows:-
Most of my presentations: ID: umapdkt@gmail.com Ebooks sswami.ebooks@gmail.com Mamallai MSS mamallai@gmail.com
You may have to log in using the above ids.Forother details please do contact me.
Please take care not to even accidentally delete the works in those sites. Afterall he hastakengreat efforts to do it.
Will writemore on this. Mr Natarajan who accompanied us, has also indicated thathe isgoing to write aTravelogue on this trip and hopingto see it soon.
Thanks for this summary on the trip! Everybody enjoyed a lot!
For updating photos online, i would like to know if we could have a seperate Picasa or anyother tools to upload all our photo in the same site so that it will come handy..
I read the mails in the group site and will not be able to see the attachment. can you please post it in the file section and give the link? What is this about? Now my curiosity is much more as I am not sure what the attachment has :)
really missed Mr.Swaminathan's guidance. you are all lucky...The insight we get when accompanied by a scholar is much different from a lay man's vision of the same thing.I have experienced that with Dr.Kalaikovan in Mallai, Tiruvalanachizhi, Tanjai etc and Dr.Balu at Tanjai, Pazhayarai, Patteeswaram etc. More fortunate are the varalaaru team who used to frequent these places almost every week with the scholars.
Shanakara...so you are there around and made it to the trip? Good for you. I know you would have gone there only for PS official snack and drink (Grand sweets and Bovonto ofcourse) but disappointed. enna vitutu pona appadithan agum :) As far as I remember, none of our earlier PS meet/trip was completed without these two and ofcourse everytime our official sponsor is our great Anna....Seyal Puyal Sundar (SPS)... :)
Do we have answer for this ? If not, why don't we start with participants and all members.
What are we doing to do to spread the awareness (apart from REACH) ?
> > One question, very aptly asked by Prof. Swaminathan at the end of the day > is, "WHAT IS THE STEP FORWARD AFTER THIS INDUCTION". We need to do some > thing about all these and I plan to discuss more on this in the upcoming > days. >
Thanks a lot for taking this out. In factI was so dejected at the condition of the Devanagari Inscription which, according to Prof. Swaminathan, probably could be the first ever DevanagariInscription of India. Similarly the Inscriptionsin Dharmaraja Mandapam and Ramanuja Mandapam are almost erodedaway. Are thesenot the testimonies tothegrand past of ourTamizh country. Why couldwe not preserve these.
I am pretty sure Awareness is the only problem. I am sure even most of the natives of Mallai do not care for it. Well even I did not realize that until Igot initiated to these by our Vijay and then by Prof. Swaminathan. So creating awareness is the needof the time.
Request members to pool in their ideas as to how do createand sustain this awareness.