SEEING GOD IN WOMAN. Vengrai Parthasaathy As someone said God cannot be everywhere; so he created woman as mother. Are we giving woman the respect that is due to her? Let us face it. This is a man’s world and Manu, the law giver, ( whom we like to quote at the drop of a…
I am an Octo Born in Oct ‘26 An Octogenerian In the cusp of life, Across Ups and downs And level ground Life, a bowl of cherries Sometimes bitter Plus and Minus Sweet and Sour Packed and ready but Yama eludes me My last days, Feel like the fifth wheel Life goes on Across Ups…
– Aristocrat of the Breakfast Table – Vengrai Parthasarathy The Egmore Friends met again, as they usually do on Sunday mornings, at Udupi Pankaja. They had their cosy corner where they expatiated on their pet themes and peeves. This time the subject was: idli or dosa? Thimmappa, a dosa aficionado, spoke first. What he said…
My Father…….Sri V.N.Venkata Varadachariar.. (A Brief sketch) Sri V.N. VENKATA VARADACHARIAR, Advocate Madras was born on 14 October, 1888 in the Vengrai village of Salem district to Sri V. Narasimhachariar and Smt. Janaki Ammal He belonged to the Tirumalai Nallan Chakravarthy family who devoted themselves to a highly religious life. He traced his ancestry to…
Subject: Pun-fun Here is an interesting episode, a report on which I had preserved. An elderly lady of Los Angeles had lost touch with her son who had gone to New Jersey. “He had not written or called. Will you be kind enough to contact him and ask him to write” She was making this…
– BOUNTEOUS SRI MAHALAKSHMI Vengrai Parthasarathy (This article was published in the Bhavan’s Journal dt.15 June 2015) Sri Mahalakshmi, is the divine consort of Maha Vishnu in whose right chest she abides always. She is known as Sri / Mahishi ( in Sanskrit ) to indicate her exalted status as blissful queen and chief consort…
Saga of Freedom and Gandhiji (Published by BHAVAN’S JOURNAL) Vengrai Parthasarathy My eyes settled on a random page of “Gandhi-Essential Writings” in a friend’s house, and there was this letter by Gandhiji to Rajaji, which he had signed off with the Tamil words Romba anbudan (which translates to ‘With Much Love’). Tamil is a language…
Old Order Changeth Yielding Place to New (Chennai) BY Vengrai Parthasarathy Madras The laid-back city of ancient traditions, orthodox people, old-world courtesies. Well, it is not there, not any more. The Cooum is there but potable water is not flowing in it. But, metaphorically speaking, much water has flown…
By Vengrai Parthasarathy 07th September 2011 10:53 PM Those were the days which only Chennaites in their seventies will remember. In the Thirties and Forties the rumblings of trams were heard in all the main arteries of Madras. Those were leisurely days when no one was in a hurry. People used to have a ‘brunch’…
________________________________________________________________ Shaheed Bhagat Singh – by Ven Parthsarthy 30 Sep 2008 (MSN India-Contribute) It is heart warming to learn that a long denied and long- felt need for a statue of Shaheed Bhagat Singh in the Parliament House was fulfilled on Independence Day..One wonders why it should have taken sixty years after Independence for the…