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The tram rides of a different era 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.…

Profile Of Mr.Vengrai Parthasarathy (From Sahitya Akademi) Posted on October 5, 2016 in Uncategorized A profile of Vengrai Parthasarathy (from Sahitya Akademi): Mr.V.V. Parthasarathy (Vengrai) the author is 88+ years old.He graduated from the Madras University and stayed on to complete his Law degree in the same Uiversity. Again in that University, he did a two-year course in…

SHORT-CUT  RAGHU                                   Vengrai Parthasarathy   Among the memories of my school life, Raghu stands out. A tall, gangling chap, he was a ‘character’. Breezy and affable, he was a talker, a talker’s talker,.He will never stand still in one place. .Some part or limb, a finger, a toe –will scratch, pull, nudge something…

Iyengar Lingo–Vengrai Posted on July 16, 2016 in Uncategorized Aiyengar/Iyengar Lingo The “Iyengar Lingo or paribhashai” for food is different from others . Samayal is “Thaligai to Iyengars.”. In general, the term “Amudhu” (Amirtham or Nectar) is added after all basic dishes. Iyengars add “Tiru” (meaning auspicious or sacred), to all words and payasam is said as Tiru…

Pun Fun With Dunn ! Posted on October 30, 2016 in Uncategorized Subject: Pun-fun with Dunn Vengrai Parthasarathy Here is an interesting episode, a report on which I had preserved among archives. 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…

Saga Of Freedom–And Gandhiji Posted on November 20, 2016 in Uncategorized Saga Of Freedom & Gandhiji– Mr.Gopal Gandhi (Bhavan’s Journal) Book Review–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…

 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, a relationship  without sensual implications. That is how we understand…

         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, an eager Stipendiary student of his in the post=graduate  Internationaal Law & Constituttional law course of the Madras University. The first words I…

Narayanan KNIS97@MSN.com 75.30.249.32 Dear Mr. Parthasarathy, I chanced upon your article on the late Dewan Bahadur T. Rangachariar only yesterday and I am very happy for it. Sri Rangachariar happens to be my ‘Chinna Thatha’; myself being the grandson of Late Sri. Samy Iyengar of Ombalapady who was an elder brother of Sri. Rangachariar. I…

The San Diego Fire! FIRE, FEAR AND FRIENDS – Vengrai Parthasarathy   When Wind and Fire, two of Nature’s elemental forces join hands, insignificant Man has but to bow before it. I was woken up from my beauty sleep on the fateful Monday morning and told that I had but thirty minutes in which to…