tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72510672940470709942011-10-11T11:32:20.616+05:30Random ramblings on books, Madras heritage, India's postal history, and other interesting events ... happening right here at Madras that is ChennaiRAMANATHANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08930263864885758766noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251067294047070994.post-13098783646235762272011-01-11T18:22:00.002+05:302011-01-11T18:27:07.635+05:30

Jan/8 அன்று, எனது கார் சகதியில் சிக்கிக்கொண்டு (முன்சக்கரம்) திணறியபோது உதவிகரம் நீட்டிய நல்லுள்ளங்களுக்கு நன்றி நன்றி நன்றி !!! அவர்கள் -- சீதாராமன், குமார், மற்றும் பெயர் தெரியாத இன்னொரு மனிதர். ஒரு மணி நேரம் போராடி சகதியிலிருந்து மீட்டப்பின் புத்தகக்கண்காட்சிக்கு சென்று அரங்குகளைக் காணமுடிந்தது. ஏகத்திற்கு கூட்டம், மதிய சாப்பாட்டுக்கு விலக்கு அளித்து என்னால் முடிந்தவரை சுற்றிவந்தேன்.

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விலகி போனால் விரும்பி வரும்விரும்பி போனால் விலகி போகும்

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Daily events are listed here => http://bapasi.com/DailyEvents_10_01.aspKalaignar award winners list => http://bapasi.com/AwardWinners2011.asp34th Chennai Book Fair Press Release in:Tamizh => http://bapasi.com/tamil.pdfEnglish => http://bapasi.com/english.pdf

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Chennai Book Fair, marking its 34th edition in 2011, will be at the St.George's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School premises. What does it mean to the pupils of this school ? I believe some of them are from economically weaker sections of the society. Can the numerous publishers and book-sellers set aside few copies of their appropriate literature (meant for Children) and donate it to these kids

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"தி லைப் ஒப் மகாத்மா காந்தி" டாகுமெண்டரி பிலிம்ஸ் லிமிடெட், மெட்ராஸ்; அல்ஹம்பரவில் (Alhambara) நள்ளிரவு காட்சி; மலாயாவில் (முதல் காட்சி) திரையிடப்பட்டு திரை அரங்கமே நிரம்பி வழிகின்றது." -- தி ஸ்ட்ரைட்ஸ் டைம்ஸ் 31 மே 1941 தேதியட்ட தனது நாளிதழில் இந்த செய்தியை வெளியட்டது. குறிப்பு: தனது அயரா உழைப்பால், அனைத்து வகைகளிலும் அரும் பாடுபட்டு, பற்பல நாடுகளில் கண்டெடுத்த மகாத்மா பற்றிய பல்வேறு

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இரண்டாம் உலக போர் நிதிக்கு, M.S.M குடும்பத்தை சேர்ந்த இரண்டு செட்டியார்கள், ரூபாய் 10,000/- கொடையாகக் கொடுத்ததை, சிங்கபூரிலிருந்து வெளிவந்த தி ஸ்ட்ரைட்ஸ் டைம்ஸ் (18 ஜூலை, 1940 தேதியிட்ட) நாளிதழில் செய்தி வெளியானது:Image Courtesy: http://newspapers.nl.sg. Image's copyright ownership is with National Library, Singapore."A DONATION OF 10,000 rupees, equivalent to $6,400 has been given by

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I don't recall having seen such facility available in any of the previous book fairs at Chennai organized by BAPASI. How nice it would be to have this ? But why anyone will be interested ? Visitors will not have time ? And who will benefit from this ? Maybe, someone would want to surf the net / check mails / tweet live from the book fair / do blog postings or live streaming of some of the events,

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From a recent conversation with an author (of Tamil origin) from Hong Kong, got to know about an interesting aspect in the book fair (annual ?) event in that former British-colony and now a self-governing administrative region of People's Republic of China : visitors can pick / choose books from the vendor stalls and take them to coffee-shops to have a leisurely reading, after they are done with

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BAPASI, that body vested with powers to conduct the annual book fair in Chennai, has made public (in their website) details of 34th Chennai Book Fair.Dates => http://bapasi.com/2011bookfair_DT.asp [ 4/Jan/2011 to 17/Jan/2011 ]Rules & Regulations => http://bapasi.com/rules_regulation_2011.pdfCountdown : 21 days to go.

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இரண்டு மலாய் மாணவர்கள் காரைக்குடியில் அமைந்துள்ள டாக்டர் அழகப்பா செட்டியார் கல்லூரியில் இரண்டு வருடம் தங்கி படிக்க உதவிதொகையும், இந்தியா சென்றுவர இரண்டாம் வகுப்பு பிராயண செலவும் ஏற்றுகொள்வதாக கல்லூரியின் அன்றைய செயலாளர் க.வீ. இராமநாதன் செட்டியார் அறிவித்தார். இந்த அறிவுப்பு 1952-இல் வெளியானது.

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மலாயாவிற்கு சென்ற முதல் நகரத்தார் பெண்மணி -- திருமதி.சொக்கலிங்கம் செட்டியார். செட்டிநாட்டு வழக்கில் இதற்கு 'உடன்செல்லுதல்' என்று பெயர். இது நடந்த வருடம் -- 1933.

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On a sunny Sunday morning on Oct/10/2010, a group of 37 (a prime number that satisfies 4n+1 condition) trekkers driving in about 10 cars + one Royal Enfield Bullet descended on a tiny farming hamlet, Arai, causing raised eyebrows amongst the local villagers. People's clinic Trust in this village, bordering TamilNadu and Andhra Pradesh, was the starting point. Later during the trek, I realized

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சாலையை பார்த்தால் சமத்துசேலையை பார்த்தால் விபத்து

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Venue : Vennirul Art Gallery, C.P.Art CentreSpeaker : Dr.Satyabhama Badhreenath, Superintending Archaeologist, ASI, Chennai CircleOn : Saturday 21/Aug/2010On the occasion of Madras Day 2010, this inaugural lecture on Fort St.George was accompanied with an exhibition of prints, aquatints, etchings and engravings from the collections of Mr.V.Narayan Swami and the Foundation.This is the gist of her

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It could have been better ... Attended four talks but missed many more that were scheduled as part of Madras Day 2010 -- couple of them by Pradeep, all the talks at RMRL. Except for one, couldn't take notes in the rest of the talks. So, if you notice errors / omissions / deficiencies / mistakes blame it on me but NOT the speakers. Starting with the Fort where it all started ... A walk inside Fort

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Title: "Colonial Archaeology in South Asia -- The Legacy of Sir Mortimer Wheeler"Author: Himanshu Prabha RayOUP, 2008Author has detailed, in the 9 chapters , the birth and growth leading to the establishment of Archaeology as a discipline of study in colonial and post-independent India set in the backdrop of Sir Mortimer Wheeler taking over as Director-General of ASI, his contributions to Indian

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Another piece of heritage structure comes under the wreckers hammers . . .http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Old+police+station+building+to+become+history&artid=TqeaiOWWcVc=&SectionID=lifojHIWDUU=&MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&SectionName=rSY|6QYp3kQ=&SEO=Courtesy: www.expressbuzz.com

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Goal for the next three months . . .Create wikipedia entries, with detailed content, on Philo Irudayanath, C.V.Seshadri

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Madras Miscellany column of The Hindu dated 01/Feb/2010 begins with a note about Madras University's plans to start degree classes in the camps for the internally displaced people in Sri Lank's north. Further, in the same article, brief sketch of the first two graduates of University of Madras from Jaffna is provided. Detailing about the two graduates, Mr.S.Muthiah outlined as to why

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In continuation of my review comments of the Tamil book titled, "Madras -- Chennai" this is the final part in this series. In case you missed the part I and II, you can read it here and here.11. Which European power came in 1612 ? Is it Danish or the Dutch ? Text says it is Dutch (in page 6 of chapter 1).12. Masulipattinam, in the process of translation, has become "Mussoli Pattinam" (I have

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In continuation of my review comments of the Tamil book titled, "Madras -- Chennai" this is part II in this series. In case you missed the part I of this series, it is available here.What needs improvement / correction ?Am stopping from providing further examples of point 6 (elaborated here) in this category i.e using simple words, proper sentences / phrases and avoiding grammatical errors in the

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In the previous post here, I had mentioned about enrollment in a book review scheme of New Horizon's Media. As the title of this post says, the review comments shall be split into three parts to enable easy reading.Before jumping into the feedback, quick note about the book under review.Book DetailsTitle : Madras -- ChennaiAuthor (English) : Nandita KrishnaAuthor (Tamil translation) : Jayashree

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I enrolled in a book review scheme of New Horizon Media.Further details about the book review scheme is posted here : http://thoughtsintamil.blogspot.com/2009/10/nhm-4.htmlAm reviewing the Tamil book titled, 'Madras -- Chennai", authored in English by Nandita Krishna, translated to Tamil by Jayashree Govindarajan and published by Prodigy Books (an arm of New Horizon Media). This title is

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On the occasion of Madras week, 2009 I will be posting snippets of events from the 'pages of history'. Some of these may sound trivial but provides an interesting insight how things were in Madras some 250 years back.NOTE: Page numbers, I quote in these posts , may vary depending on which source is being used to view the book. Possible sources include, but not limited to, http://books.google.com,

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Yes, if you are a Madras heritage buff, here is the announcement.For details about the various competitions: http://www.madrasmusings.com/madras_week.htmlWhat's going on behind the scenes: http://www.madrasday.blogspot.com/To keep a tab on the upcoming events during the Madras week long celebrations, check here, http://themadrasday.in/

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Disclaimer: I will regularly post snippets from books that I find interesting and relevant to the subjects of this blog, but I will try to abstain from posting about the quality of the content. I request and recommend that my posting should NOT be considered as review comments.Moving to today's subject, The debut of official airmail and the Indian connection.First things first, the sources for

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Received an e-mail from one of the contacts at LOC MSS, about my earlier inquiry on this subject, with details of their collections on Andrew Carnegie and a list of private researchers whom I can contact to get relevant text transcribed.Still mulling over as to what to do now. At this point, am undecided on what the next steps should be.

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Anyone interested in Madras' heritage would be surprised to know that the famous self-made billionaire visited Madras, for few days, while he was going round the world trip. This event is set in the late nineteenth century of British India.Excerpts from the archives of The Sunday Times Plus Sri Lanka Edition dated Jun/15/2008,Accompanied by a friend, John Vandervorst, Carnegie set out westward

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