I am happy to share this great news with you all. My wife Nanditha delivered a baby girl yesterday evening. ie. 9th Oct 7.20PM. Both mother and child are doing great. Yet to name my daughter. In the process of shortlisting names.
Hearty congratulations...good that you too joined the girl child club. My daugther was born on 18th July in St.Isabel, Mylapore, I nemd here netra. I am sending you a big list to your email ID from which you can choose from! Chandrasekaran
Hi Dhiwakar I'm Senthan Amudan from New Jersey,I'm a new member of this group. I would like to know why you don't like the name Poonguzhali???..Isn't it a nice name???
Hai senthan no wonder you like the name pungkuzhali. on our group's trip to tanjore there was an animated discussion on the women of ps. if you check out the last months messages there was even a poll. Dhiwaker felt she had some serious psychological problems because o growing alone in a forest( of course he had other reasons for not likng the other women too) thats why.
so though dhiwaker is presently in equtorial africa we dare not talk about punkuzhali without inviting a sarcastic comment from him.
by the way last month's discussion was on how kalki chose the name pungkuzhali.did you see it?
Hi Venketesh, Really happy to see ur reply...I read few mails. I suppose every women character in the story was portrayed to have some distinct attitude. So Poonkuzhali too had her own slightly rash attitude..Infact she is really a nice girl..isn't she?
actually she's a very brave girl you know. killed a cheetah with her bare hands and the jaw bone of a shark. but she has this anti royal fixation. and finally the irony is that she becomes the queen. but her baiting vanathi frequently ( you could even call it biting)is terrible you know.
and she doesnt respect the true love senthan has for her till the end. gives you a feeling she is after position in life and not the person. and what a person. senthan knows he is the right ful heir to the chola throne but doesnt open his mouth for he feels there are better people for the post. a remarkable charecter.
its easy for a writer to maintain the upright nature of a charecter. but in sucha long book ellaa ottai udaisal ellaam veli vanthurum.
Yes, Kundavai, nandini and Poonguzhali (sorry diwakar, PS poonguzhaliya pidikutho illayo, andha peru pidichirukku) all came to my mind. Immediately another scene came to my mind...15 years later en ponnu enna pathu "dei appa, appana nee peru vechirukka paru Kundavainu, enna repair pannita.. schoola ellam enna kundhu kundhunu koopadaranga...manam povuthu" appadinu thititanu vachikunga..naan enga poi moonchiya vechikarathu. ulagathula padi perukku PS nu oru novel erukkaratho, RR oda akka than Kundavaino theriyathu..so risk edukka virumbala..
Nandini, though beautiful is very much common name. Poonguzhali.....same reason as Kundavai....so trying to balance with a name which should be traditional yet unique....Actually mandakini is also a beautiful name, ana dawood ibrahim ala andha peru repera pocha adhanala koncham mersala erukku (cha endha diwakar kooda senthu enakku andha basha vanthiruchi..)
Thanks once again for all your wishes. will keep you posted on the name soon.
un ponnu solradhai pathi kavalaiye padaathey.... nee enna peru thedi thedi vaichaalum avalukku edhaavadhu nick name kuduthu dhaan koopiduvaanga....
for instance " nandhini" might become "kundhu nee".... so idhukellaam kavalai pattu per vaikkaathey.....
when in chandigarh , one tamizhan (dont want to mention the name) said that he named his son "balaji" because everyone in north will call him "Ji" i.e with respect as the name itself contains the word " ji"...
naan summa illaama... "sir.. neenga vera.. u will come to tamil nadu one day... appo unga paiyyanai paathu ellaarum...
'balaji bajji.. high court sojji.. kodambakkam bridge.. bridge mela car u.. carukkulla yaaru... namma mama Nehru... Nehru enna sonnaaru.. Nalla padikka sonnaaru.... gandhi enna sonnaaru... boondhi thinga sonnaaru ' "
Dhiwakar Sir..Tamil Ponnugellam Murathala Puliya adichu viratuvaanga...and Cheetahva kooda Bare handsla kolluvaanga...but avanga Husbanda apdiellam seiya mataanga...(Even in one vivek's comedy in a movie it would be like that...Where some women will be eating mann sorru (Sand Rice) and would be beating vivek for kidding them..finally when her husband beat her she wouldn't even defend herself) Thats why even Mr.Krishnamurthy had finally ended the story as, the so called dreadful Poonkuzhali marrying the soft-guy Senthan...Namma Tamizh ponnuga yentha Eralaiyum maaramaataanga.... And also on the other front.. her attitude may be neccessary for surviving in those situations..so it may be some of her survival skills...which when looked from a cultured perspective may appear bad..I would say KALKI had exactly pictured a woman been brought up in such an environment...There is nothing wrong in her..its b'cos of the environment her attitude is slightly different....
all advice is now to satishkumar..... avanai dhaan namma group members ellaam saerdhu vaatti edukkaraanga...... paavam budhdhi pedhalichu poi irukkaan.....adhaavadhu mersalaaittaan....