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–  NOUNTAIN TO MAHOMET by Vengrai Parthasarathy Harikrishna had come up in life the hard way. By the time he was thirty he knew that he had made good only through the goodwill and help of friends. He wanted to give  something   back to societY.  As a volunteer in the Welfare Guild he devoted his time for…

LOST  AND FOUND….         Vengrai Parthasarathy  The elderly, tufted   gentleman next to me in the bus to Triplicane  had his eyes closed and seemed to be either snoozing or  in deep meditation.  After a while, he opened his eyes  turned  and I was the first person to meet his eye. “Thank you”, he said. I was wondering why this man was thanking me.…

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…

  Prof.C.H.Alexandrowicz          I am proud to call him my Guru. I am now in my Eighties, residing  in San Diego. In 1954/55 I was in my  Twenties, and had won a Stipendiary scholarship of his in the post=graduate  International Law & Constitutional  law course of the Madras University. The first words I…

Platonic Love -by Ven Parthsarthy Thursday, December 13, 2007      PLATONIC  LOVE? WHY NOT? BY Vengrai Parthasarathy      Is it possible for a man and a woman to have friendship, untrammeled by physical senses and considerations of sex? Platonic  love, anyone? Here are some loosely connected thoughts.      It is said that Platonic love is a kind of spiritual love,…

Bocce Ball.. by Vengrai Parthasarathy A friend, Venky who is an active member of Rotary International invited me to participate in their Annual Tournament for fund raising to support worthy projects.Bocce Ball,I learn, is an Italian game. It is also played in England where they call it Lawn bowling Bocce Ball requires very little sports…

When the Chips are Down… By  Vengrai Parthasarathy   Even in the bustle and  buzz of the airport scene, life has a funny way of imparting new lessons. I learned mine, the other day. The idea that one has to ‘let go’ and not grump about life’s little pin-pricks had got into my system after listening…

LITERARY ODDITIES  Vengrai Parthasarathy Proper words in proper places’ was how Jonathan Swift defined style’ in literature. That is something not hard to find. There are countless illustrations if one only looks out for them in classics by master-writers. On the other hand, some hold the opinion that it should suffice, if, depending on the…

STREETCAR NAMED TRAM -by Ven Parthsarthy Tuesday, February 05, 2008 This story has been read 247 times.   STREET CAR NAMED TRAM            Vengrai Parthasarathy    In the thirties and forties  the rumblings of  trams were heard in all the main arteries of Chennai. Those were leisurely days when no one was in a hurry. People used to have a ‘brunch’…

 Sacred  Utterances of AndAL NAchiyAr   Vengrai Parthasarathy   Tradition  recognizes two consorts  of Sri NarayaNa. viz., Sri Devi (Periya Piratti),Bhumi  Devi (Mother earth)., Tamil tradition has it that Nappinnai is an incarnation of Bhumi Devi–  cow-maid consort of Lord KrishNa.  Andal, one of the  twelve  Alvars is  revered  as representing  the jivAthma –independent  soul–  aspiring for union…