Some hilarious but dangerous gaffes
Posted on Jul 8 2008Recently I read a ststement by Arcot N.Veerasami, minister in Tamilnadu government that Raama
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A composition of Tyagaraja explained
Posted on Jul 7 2008The well known composition in kamas raga strts with the phrase seethaapathe naa manasunaa&quo
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Matrimonial meetings
Posted on Jul 7 2008Recently I was at a get together organised in the US by a well known internet matrimonial company.
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sitting atop a volcano
Posted on Jul 3 2008Today I got ot an ominous mail which threatened tthat lower rung workers would go on strike if
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going up the staircase of meditation
Posted on Jul 2 2008Since many of us are not quite clear about what meditation is even though we all bandy the word abou
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Descent of Ganga in words and in stone
Posted on Jul 1 2008Sage Visvaamithra narrates the story of how Bhageerathha, the son of Amsumaan and an ancestor of Raa
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A magnanimous response
Posted on Jun 30 2008Remember my blog on pitfalls of translation two days ago?
There have been some 15 views so far of it
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Staircase leading to meditation of God
Posted on Jun 29 2008The Bhagavad dhyaana sopaanam is a beautiful poem in Sanskrit by VedaanthadeSika describing the sple
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Some more on gotras
Posted on Jun 28 2008A large number of people belong to KauSika or Visvaamithra gothra.I know some named as Kaushik or Co
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Pitfalls of poetic translation
Posted on Jun 28 2008Translation is a scholarly and creative discipline, no doubt but many are the shortcomings of its
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'Singing the body of God'-First impressions
Posted on Jun 27 2008I have in my hands a book published by Oxford University Press and authored by Steven Paul Hopkins o
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Weapons given to Raama by ViSvaamithra
Posted on Jun 24 2008When ViSvaamithra took Raama and LakshmaNa in his care from DaSarathhas palace,he imparted two grea
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Fetish of cleanliness
Posted on Jun 24 2008In stark contrast to my dear homeland I see a different situation here in the US.
The roads and all
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gothra
Posted on Jun 24 2008Much fuss is made about gothra during matrimony.But are we clear about what it means?
I got an idea
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Matrimony in India today
Posted on Jun 23 2008Having observed the marriage market over a period I may summarise the present situation as follows:
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The last of the giants
Posted on Jun 21 2008I am not able to find any one comparable in scholarship and achievemets to the ancie
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Lifting the faces of cities
Posted on Jun 19 2008I read today in The Hindu about the plan to give a face lift to chennai by completing Adayaar park.
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The aSvamedha sacrifice as described by Vaalmeeki
Posted on Jun 18 2008The asvamedha sacrifice(yaaga) is one of the grand scale rituals which required a great patronage an
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Vaanchinathhan, the patriot par excellence
Posted on Jun 17 2008
Vaanchinaathhan was barely twenty five years old when, goaded by his mentor, V.V.S. Iyer,he
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a neurosurgeon with a difference
Posted on Jun 17 2008Twelve years ago I had been surprised by a deer in the sprawling campus of IIT Madras while riding a
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