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மேகம் சூரிய தந்தையும் கடல் அன்னையும் பெற்றெடுத்த வெண் பஞ்சுக் குழந்தை வெளிர் நீல வானத்தின் வெள்ளை ஆடை "விசா" இல்லாத உல்லாசப் பயணம் தீட்டப்படாத ஓவியங்களின் அணிவகுப்பு மலைகள்ளனிடம் கொஞ்சி விளையாட்டு மழையாய் மீண்டும் பூமியில் சங்கமம் தொடர்கிறது ஈசனின் தீரா விளையாட்டு

Hi There is a link to my car being in the garage and this article. Curious to know why? Last week I was travelling along with my friend way back home from office and near the Porur signal we saw a Maruti Car carrying the caption “Irrupai Tamizha Neruppai Irunthathu pothum iduvarai Seruppai” meaning “Rise O! Tamils from the clutches of slavery and become a fire” and the name below the statement was “Pavanar”. This kindled my interest in finding out who is this “Pavanar” and the result of the same is culminated in the form of an article about him. My respect towards tamizh language has increased manifold after reading about his theory. Want to know more? please read on.. Devaneya Pavanar (1902 – 1981) Gnanamuthu Devaneyan Pavanar was born on 7 February 1902 in Sankaranayinar Koil, Tamil Nadu to his parents Thiru.Gnanamuthu Devendrar and Paripuranam Ammaiyar. He was educated in the C.M.J. High School, Palayankottai, S.S.L.C. (1916-1918) and trained as a teacher in Madras University . H

I had made couple of visits to the temple town of Kanchipuram however I could not go to Kanchi Mutt the Kamakoti Peetam of Sri Adi Sankaracharya. Legend is that Sri Adi Sankaracharya established the peetam some 2500 years ago and placed one of the five spatika lingas got at Kailas and placed the "yoga linga" for his own personal worship and that of his successors at Kanchi. There was an inner call to me to visit Kanchipuram and I pulled one of my old friend who worked with me in LMW, Coimbatore to accompany me. Unexpectedly I got a call from one more friend of mine who also worked with me earlier that he is also interested in joining our trip. We started our journey at 6.30 a.m. on Sunday, 10th May 2009, in my Santro. We started from Ambattur Estate Road, touched Poonamalle Highway and then proceeded straight. We fueled our vehicle and decided to fuel ourselves on the way and we stopped after Poonamalle to have a cup of coffee and some biscuits. The Road was excellent which i

Govind Dev Ji Temple is one amongst the major tourist attractions of Jaipur. The Temple represents the royal past of Jaipur. The Temple is dedicated to Govind Dev Ji (Other name of Lord Krishna). Govind Devji Temple of Jaipur is situated in the City Palace complex, between the Chandra Mahal and Badal Mahal. Govind Dev Ji is the principal deity of Amber's Kachawaha Dynasty. In the earlier times, the idol of the lord used to reside in the temple of Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh. According to a legend, Govind Dev Ji appeared in the dream of Raja Sawai Jai Singh and asked him to bring his idol from Vrindavan to Jaipur. As a consequence, Raja Sawai Jai Singh brought the idol and placed in the City Palace complex of Jaipur. After the sad demise of Jai Singh, many successors acquired the throne, but Raja Man Singh took the initiative to build the temple in 1890. The beautiful image of Radha-Krishna doesn't let people to take off their eyes from the lovely view. Different 'Aartis'

Madras War Cemetry Hi I recently shifted to Mogappair west extension on the Vanagaram – Ambathur road. My office is in Ekkattuthangal. I was trying different routes to see which is the optimal route both in terms of time, distance, traffic, signals and what not? While on this exercise I used to cross a strange place daily near St. Thomas Mount with greeneries and grave yards. Finally I decided to see this place and parked my vehicle and went near to see the place. The entrance displayed “Madras War Cemetery” and inside there are thousands of grave yards each carrying a name to it. Later when I searched in the Google I found that this cemetery was built in 1952 to pay tribute to valiant men and women who died in the Second World War. A tribute to the valiant men and women who laid down their lives in the Second World War, the Madras War Cemetery was set up in 1952 by the Imperial War Graves Commission, which is now known as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). The Cemetery is

A trip to Panchavati I and my friend were discussing on the religious topic and in between the topic went to “Panchavati” where the temple for “Panchamuga Anchaneya” is located. We finally decided to travel to “Panchavati” to see the lord (Sunday – 3rd May 2009). I took my car (Santro) and with me was my friend and we started around 2.30 P.M. On the way we fuelled our car. We didn’t have lunch but took some snacks to fuel our stomach. Then we took the Tambaram highway and the road was very good. We passed thru Tambaram, Chengalpattu, and reached Tindivanam. We started hearing all the Carnatic Music songs in my collection. On the way we were discussing heavily on the various religious topics we crossed Tindivanam for a few kilometers and realized that we missed the route. Then again we took the diversion and reached Tindivanam and from there we took the diversion route to Pondicherry. Finally we reached the temple around 5 P.M. There we saw the Main Gopuram and the Vimana of the temple

My experiments in Dining - Matsya Hotel, Egmore. I was on the way to Coimbatore to attend a family function last week. I decided to go the Chennai Central direct from my office. I was driving past Egmore and decided to stop at Hotel Matsya. The Hotel is named after the First incarnation or avatar of Maha Vishnu “Matsya” meaning “Fish”. There are only limited space for the car parking. I gave my keys to the valet parking guy and rushed inside the Hotel as I need to catch my Train (Cheran Express). I enquired the waiter what is the special in this Hotel, he told “Udipi Special Thali”. Then I decided to venture it out. The ambience inside the Hotel was good and it was air conditioned. They started serving me the “Udupi Thali” with the starter as “Rasa Vada”. The vada was soft and was soaked in mint and coriander rasam. Then came small Mangalore appam, kuzhi appam, and mangalore bondas before the meal. I was half filled with this itself and was little scared whether I will be able to compl