வந்தே மாதரம் என்போம் – எங்கள் மாநிலத் தாயை வணங்குதும் என்போம்

image courtesy: Sharosh.Rajasekher Web designing evangelist bangalore.
Song: சி. சுப்ரமணிய பாரதி தேசிய கீதங்கள்

reminiscence of free fighters which i know on the go.

• Veerapandiya Kattabomman – hero of panchalankurichi – Early rebelian, Sepoy mutiny
• Subramaniya bharathiyar aka Mahakavi Bharathiyari – hero of ettayapuram – Staunch literature /freedom figher
• V.O.chidambaram pillai aka Va.Vu.Ce – hero of ottipidarm and Kappalottiya Tamizhan
• Vanchinathan – hero of thirunelveli and killed ash durai
• Kumaran aka kodi katha kumaran – Erode and lost his life to save our indian flag
• Marthu brothers( Chinna Marthu/Periya Marthu ) – just a 6th standard tamil book memory
• Muhammed Yushaf Khan aka. Maruthanayagam – first rebel solider of india. researched after red the story “Moga Malar” by Mr.Balasubramanian later kamals Maruthanayagam movie. ( suppose to be the first Rebel Solider before even mangal pandey )
• Mangal pandey – first rebel solider ( got him after the movie )
• Oomaithurai – brother of Veerapandiya kattabommon and build soil fort
• Subramanya Siva – Freedom figher
• Subash Chandra Bose aka (Netaji ) – hero of bengal , Indian national army
• Jansi Rani Lakshmi bai – Rebel women from Jansi
• Bhagat Singh – Punjab – JallianWalla Bagh Massacre
• Hyder Ali – Musilm sultan of mysore
• Tippu Sultan – Srirangapattan – Mysore – son of hyder ali
• Bal-Gangadhar Tilak – “Swaraj is my birth right”
• Raja Ram Mohan Rai – “Abolition of Sagi practice”
• Saradar vallabhai patel – “Iron man of india”
• Charavathi Rajagopacharai aka Rajaji – “His book Bhagavita ” is quite famous
• Gopala krishana Gokale –
• Lala Lajpat Rai – “Punjab kesari”
• Jawarahala Nehru – “Nehru mama”
• Mohandas karamchand gandhi aka Mahatama Gandhi – father of india
• Sarojini Naidu – “Kavi-kuil”
• Mohammed Ali Jinnah – Founder member of Pakisthan

Windows Vista

picture courtesy: www.behindwoods.com{ pallikoodam movie }

This pictures brought back our previous house main door. Its our Windows Vista and resembles exactly the same. Instead of a dull green colour ours is dull blue tinted shade with one asthalakhsmi picture at the center, having a big legacy bronze holder and a iron hook for the lock. back side of the door has a long metalic strip cut cross the door from the top left corner to bottom right corner.

i used to swing exactly the same in the picture, but the sweet irony is . when ever i swing .. my mom used to say..

“dei kadhava aatadha.. sandai varum.. appa vandha odha vanguva.. ” means
Don’t disturb the door/window else u will get beating..

within 24 hours i get into some tom trap either for beating my sister or playing outside or what so ever and get a nice whacking.. … ( ethu ellam yerumai mattukku ooraikkuma ? loosa viduinga pa )

Underlying cosmic meaning ..
In such houses usage of big door is very less and freaky creatures use to dwel around.. disturbing that may cause problems..

Around this context Tamil patti auvaiyar ’s athichudi says
Aravam aataeil.. – Don;t play with freaky creatures.

Adi ThiruNaal….

With this grt8 title kalki kick-starts his ponniyan selvan story and take it to grand success. i may say Adi ThiruNaal is like a “Swathi Thirunal” krithi for me. cherubic festival registers lot of good moments among the people in chola kingdom. every year i used to anticipate this day with grt8 joy.. right from the rice + jaggery prasadham to late evening dinner with Mr. Renganathar and to have a crispy big sized rice applam.

This festival indicates

• Monsoon already started in the ghats region
• Cauvery river has steady flow of water
• touches all the outlets, ponds, streams, kovil pushkaranis
• Farmers started sowing the seeds
• you may encounter husky sound of vathu( duck ), madaiyan, kokku, kurvi kind of country side birds.
• we local gangsters re-start the swimming practice.
• This keeps a big full stop for 3 months( June, July Aug ) no festival day and flags successive festivals.
• People go to cauvery river and do poojas.
• In my early days i had seen people used to jump from a cauvery bridge to water or from the running train people used to jump.
• Water boats were employed to guard people.. lots and lots..

Oh ok.. let me throttle you with some known/unknown story which i discussed with my fiancee. Its a sweet mythological story about origin of river cauvery..

Once upon a time there lived ( i donna where he lived ) a sage 12345( ada i donna the name.. adhu dhaan.. ). As expected numerical named sage has a very sensous beautiful daughter named lobamitirey. Being a heroine of this story she excels in all sorts agmark tamil ponnu characters and prayed lord siva for her wishes. No wonder drooling lord siva gave two boons for her wish.

• Boon 1( David Boon illa pa… ) : she wanted to become a lovely, fragrant, sweet, pacefull, sereine river.
• Boon 2 : she wanted to marry short sage aghathiyar. ( kulla munivar agathiyar ).

Boon 2 got executed in a big manner and aghathiyar started living his life happly. Mrs.Agathaiyar did all sorts of wifely routines. one fine day short sage came to know about his wifes first boon. so when ever he travels abroad for a onsite visit and thapas he safe guard her rivery wife in his kamadalam( jug pa ).

After some time people in chola dynasty facing severe draught and prayed to lord siva about water management. clever lord siva wanted to utilize kamadalam river to the mankind and said please ask my beloved son Mr. Vinayagar to resolve this issue.

Polymorphic Ganesha took a khakha ( crow ) form and pushed the safe guarded kamadalam water with his crow head. Aspiring Logabhatri executed her first Boon and started flowing from the western ghats to end part of chola dynasty.

Adhu dhaan Cauvery vandha kathai.. ippo Kathaiikkul kathai .. chumma oru extension..

Angry aghathiyar try to put kottu ( prick on the head ) to the crow. Later realized its Mr.Ganesha who did that and felt bad. insane munivar put that kottu to himself with thoppu karanam.. by that time onwards when we pray ganesha we put kottu and thoppu karanam… enna sari ya kids..

Present disgusting factor : – i am seeing my cauvery without water, people lost the festival fragrance, no more agriculture happening around, no more swimming and moving to different direction.

by

a person started his life in cauvery , used to wake up daily by seeing perumals thirumanajan mani-osai, lived in a farmers house, loiter in the banks of river for fishing, swimming, cricket or what so ever etc etc..

Ada ravanana

couple of weeks back i was so honest to pickup dosa mavu, muruku, coffee power etc from a near by indian grocery store. As expected i run across an interesting desi couple( ranging above 40+) fondly purchasing their items. I am so thrilled to estabilsh some public relationship and waiting for the right moment. Finally we both reached the counter and shop owner – ( telugate ) honestly manipulate his bills. notorious couples picked up Sivakasi movie on the fly and glued it to the main basket.

I felt happy that this is the best time to start our P.R.O job and…

Me.>> Hello uncle..i am Adiya.. blah blah.
Co.>> Ho hi.. we are blah blah..
Me.>> “To make the converstation interesting..” Enna uncle ippo dhaan Sivakasi padam pakkuringala.. today sivaji getting released out here.
Co.>> Oh appadiya ..
Me.>> “Hyperactively ” Yes uncle today is the D-day for the movie n every body is thrilled about it. we got the after noon ticket..
Co.>> He understood my energy flow and said ” Enna innum sivaji padathula nadikirara ?? “
Me.>> !@#$#*(%R)#_#$_+#$
Biller>> He sudddenly dropped his billing process and give one bizzare look.. conveying.. “Naaney etho old film ellam rentikku vittu vittu life a run pannran.. inga vandhu sivajiya parthiya, bhajiya saapitiya innna.. dei .. poda… vandhiya.. dosa mavau vanginiya, dosa suttiya innu illa ma.. eppadi ethovathu business illa danger pannuna.. bayjar dhaan nee.. “
Me.>> i gave him one pavam look conveying .. “vittuInga boss. bulb vaaingurathu nammakku enna pudhusa.. “
Co. Wife>> Intelligent wife pitched in .. ennainga neeinga.. eppadi solluringa.. illa pa.. last year when we went to india people used to say there is movie called sivaji going to come.. after a long time sivaji is acting innu..

Me.>> “Ada ravanana.. indraikku en indha apppu.. ” too much Public relationship dhaan doi. illa sagunama sari illa innu sivaji ya drop panni erukanum..

..C.O.M.M.A..

I am back from
Place: Kattu Alagia Singaperumal koil – Srirangam
Camera: Nokia 70
Date: June 8th 2007

.. P.E.R.I.O.D..

I am pulling out of blogging world for some time. my comments would be sporadic.

Dreams Unlimited

Couple of days back i had a very sweet dream and had a cherubic conversation with my pasamalar. Its gonna be a Web chat as follows

Me: De.. erukeya ??
Pasamalar:
Me: enna? Smiley pooDura? Hey I wanted to ask you something?
Pasamalar: enna?
Me: Did you ever tried “Akaravadisal” ? Hope you know how cook that?
I got few recipes in the internet. Just curious vera oNNum iLLa,
appuram srirangathu ponnuikku theriunchu erukanmey adhu dhaan.
Pasamalar: Enna all of a sudden mmm .. I know. I would send my recipe.
Me: Did u tried @least once and hope you know it’s not Pongal?
Pasamalar: Dei romba seen poDatha. I know it’s not Pongal and I used to cook that.
Me : mm.. Appadiya .. appo unakku “ThirukanAmmudhu” theriuma ?
Pasamalar: #*)(#)_#$_#$(!@(!@!@!!@
Me: enna —
Pasamalar: Hey both are same.. i asked amma also..
Me: indha kathai ellam vendam.. Amma Va iLLaya adha mattum sollu ?
Pasamalar: 
Me: Podi iNga vengalam ( Sound it like Jilendru Oru Kadhal Jho ).
Pasamalar : appuram.. vera enna,…
Me: Sutham.. go back to your cookery books, turn the rusty pages and read properly.
There is a great line of difference between Thirukannamudhu Vs Akkaravadisal Vs Pongal.
Pasamalar: poDa.. Why are eating my head like this.
Me: illa Di… I had a sweet dream and in that I am eating all three dishes. adhu dhaan saapadum pola eruindhuchu vera onnum illa.
Pasamalar: mmm

Cooking is actually manodharama (ya ya something like music)…

Certain dishes has list of steps to do
Certain dishes has aroma
Certain dishes has kai-pakkuvoma
Certain dishes has extra nativity, motherhoodness
Certain dishes has divinity to it..
And so on..

But very few dishes twins all the properties… in that Thirukannamudhu, Akkaravadisal, Pongal are doubly stamped with extra specialized attributes.

There is thin line of implementation difference phenomenally boosting the taste. I had gulped enough of it in my earlier days and badly badly missing this now.

More over I like the nomenclature theorem for this…

Thirukannamudhu – First time I seeing a grt8 respect, surname, potion or vita name amalgamated to a dish.. “Thiru” + “ Kanna “ + “Amudhu”
Akkaravadisal – “Finest form of Porridge” specially invented by Srivalliputhur renganayaki to srirangam renganathar
Pongal – Hope everybody knows the sweet meaning to it.

Some interesting myth prevails around are..

1. Akkaravadisal requires Bronze pot ( vengala paney ) to cook to enhance the taste. Actual physics says you need keep stir it to get finest taste.
2. Most of the times srirangam akkaravadisal has some Smokey taste and its fondly tagged as “Perumal vandhu saaputara” adhu dhaan eppadi smell vardhu

** i missed kalkandu pongal in this series.. Try out all types ..

1. Pongal ( Typical Dravidian formula )
2. Akkaravadisal ( Typical Srirangam or vishu temple receipe ) (http://mykitchenpitch.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/akkaara-adisil-maargazi-27/)
3. Thirukanna-Amudhu ( Bangalore Kadham hotel serves hot hot types )
4. Kalkandu Pongal ( http://mykitchenpitch.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/kalkandu-pongal/ )

Every body deserves this dish in life time.
*** Internet may provide good recipe details.

Nenjill oru Thumbi parakkum aiyo aiyo

Swimming is one superb thing i would like to do for ever. Right from my kolidam days to jayanagar swimming pool times its amazing to remember. Huh I am missing all now. To fill that gap jogging stormed into my day to day life. I started jogging for Bangalore marathon (only celebrating run) and do couple of rounds in and around yediur lake or lalbagh. That’s it.

@present I am taking jogging as serious aspect of life. My jogging aromatically improvised by I.R, A.R.R, Yuvan, HJ, VS and all music souls. It’s such a pleasure to run with the tycoons and you hum urself till fellow joggers are staring @ you.

Last week I started with “Break the Rules” Boys song. My warm mode accelerated with this high groove song. When ever “Maaro Maaro” stanza comes I hum myself and when it changed the pitch “MaaroMaaroMaaro” I double my steps to cover the destination fast. It’s just another way to move urself with the song.

Few seconds later I got this D.A.T.I.N.G – Dating is a fantasy song. It’s a usual hip-hop number from A.R.R and I hum myself and proceeded. Suddenly something hit me back. I donna what is that and turned the song in a repeat mode till I finish the jogging.

Again while I walking down to office i played the same song… Oh man now I got it… Is it “Shankarabharam” or “Mayamalagowla” or hamasadhwani…?

konjam doubt, konjam resemblance, konjam joy …As usual all my doubts down poured to another head – to my world of music. without knowing the time and context i pushed my doubts.

after a while in ur busy hours u got ur answer saying:”yes its sounds like ‘Shankarabharam ‘…” inbetween hamasadhwani also Oh man “Nenjill oru Thumbi parakkum aiyo aiyo… “

english booka padikirana paru ….. Erumaa*()#*#*#…

I am a decent reader in Tamil books space{comics, sirukathaikkal, vataravazakku,podhinam, etc etc} and totally untruthful to english books. My dad shouts the blog title quite often. He constantly missiled me to pick up his old BA english literature books. Heck it’s a nightmare – to get into something which you don’t like. Later his pressure plots made to do some random tossing and got my kind of book – “Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain. Initial reads made me drowsy and dropped that part. Again my college days turned the unturned pages quite faster and finally reached Tom Sawyer. My imagination about tom-sawyer is like konjam parattai thalai, sharp eyes, oru rowdy look… Chumma to base line that here is my version of Tom. Sawyer.

Samuel Longhorne Clements aka Mark Twain

• Florida born kid dwelled around Missouri, Hannibal, Virginia City, Nevada, California, Connecticut, New York.
• Mark Twain created St.Petersburgh – simple dreamy imaginary town. Christians believe that St.Peter tends the gates of heaven and St.Peterburgh is very near to Heaven.

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Ayyar Narayanaswami aka R.K Narayanan

• Chennai born kid moved around Bangalore, Delhi, United States, and England.
• R.K created Malgudi village – simple, dreamy imaginary town. Malleswaram + Basavandgudi = Malgudi.

Brian Charles Lara

Adieu is always a painful factor and we are gonna miss you man.

In all instances you have never changed or biased with your gaming style and disciplined yourself to one among the all time favourites. Hey Prowess Trinidad like to see you in other forms and probably i might meet you soon