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Thiruppavai by Andal In stock (2nd Edition) SKU: BK 0000817. Category: Hymns and Prayers. Author: Vengrai V Parthasarathy Language: English Publisher: Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai Pages:78 ISBN: 9788178235035 Binding: Paperback Andal also known as Kodhai/Godha was a saint-poetess the only woman among the twelve Tamil Azhvars (pronounced as ‘Aalwars’). Like Sita Devi she too was…

Annotations:  By Vengrai Parthasarathy Rabindranath Tagore (aka Gurudev) was the first poet of the Indian literary canon to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year 1915 for the collection of his poems, GITANJALI- ( Prayerful Offering of Songs). Tagore, was an authentic Indian and patriot who sang proudly of his Motherland and…

Iyengar Lingo.…..by Vengrai Parthasarathy The “Iyengar Lingo or paribhashai” for food is different from that of Mandayams. The Mandayams are Iyengars too but they have their own paribaSha Samayal( cookery) is “Thaligai”. in Tamil.In general, the term “Amudhu” (Amirtham or Nectar) is added after all basic dishes by Madrasi Iyengars add “Tiru” is added (meaning…

Published Articles Posted on May 15, 2015 in Uncategorized Newspaper Clippings–Published Articles Dear Reader; These are articles that I had got published in various national media, over the years. I had used the pseudonym “MINI” which is the second half of the name of my Better-half– Rukmini. Some of the articles have aged and yellowed…

An Article about Egmore (from The Hindu) Tamil Nadu Chennai In the 1960s, when Gopi Prasad was growing up in Egmore, children from the neighbourhood would play hide and seek inside the Government Museum. “Back then, there was no charge to get in,” said the 62-year-old resident of Egmore. From the village of Ezhumbur, with…

KRISHNA’S MAYA Vengrai Parthasaraathy During one of her shopping expeditions in the Moore Bazaar, Suchitra saw an antique painting of Baby Krishna, a plump and cuddly, wonder. He and Balarama were stealing butter from a glut of overflowing pots. The picture, for all its years, was still charming . Suchitra was clean bowled over by…

to me Out With Junk…. By Vengrai Parthsarthy The ‘Anjana Petti’ of our grandma’s days can be claimed to be the forerunner of the idea from which the ‘Organiser’ concept has spread to America! The’petti (box) which is still in vogue used to be a round box with ten or twelve tiny containers for storing,…

Newspaper Clippings–Published Articles These are articles that I had got published in various national media, over the years. I had used the pseudonym “MINI” which is the second half of the name of my Better-half– Rukmini. Some of the articles have aged and yellowed. To improve things the alternative would have been for me to…

Hello, High-five and Hallelujah! Vengrai Parthasarathy Life is one long saga of meet, greet and eat. The greet part, to show fellow feeling, has undergone a good deal of dramatic changes. In India, we say Namaste or Namaskar and if you are from the south , you add an ‘am’ to it and make it…

Perfect Crime Vengrai Parthasarathy Hari was what you can call a free-wheeling’ gentleman’.. He liked to go about as ‘Harry’ because the name had a western ring to it. A failed tenth Grader, he was a fairly personable young man – a glib talker who could talk his way into and out of any situation.…