DEAR SURESH, I FULLY AGREE WITH YOUR OBSERVATIONS I BELONG TO A VILLAGE CHETTIPPUNNIYAM NEAT SINGAPERUMALKOIL CHINGLEPUT DT WHERETHERE IS ATEMPLE DEDICATED TO LORD DEVANATHA, THE IDOL HAVINGBEENRBOUGHT FRM THIRUVENDIOURAM 150 YEARS AGO AND IS DULY RECORDED IN GOVT PAPERS AS WELL AS AN WZQUISITE IDOL OF LORD RAMA SITA AND ELAYAPWUMAL AND HANUMAN IN MY YOUNG DAYS I HAVELIVED IN THE VILLAGE AND IN FACT EVEN TILL MY 45 TH THIS WAS OK BUT TODAY ALL VAISHNAVITES HAVELEFT BUTFOR MY FAMILY AND ANOTHER ANDMOST HOUSES SOLD AND INDILAPODATED CONDITION WE STILL TAKE CARE OF THE ARADANAM INTHE KOIL IT ISTIMEPEOPLE START THINKING OIF THEIR NATIVEPLACES WHILE LIVING AWA FOR BENEFITS GODBLESS U V R RAJAMANI 19 NACHIAPPAN STMAHALINGAPURAM MADRAS 34 PH 8272303 ------------------------------------ Make Unlimited phone calls from your PC to ANY phone in the World! http://www.eboom.com/free/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Suresh Rajagopalan <sureshvr19@xxxx> To: cln <chitralakshmi@xxxx>; <SriRangaSri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 3:47 PM Subject: Re: [SriRangaSri] Fwd: A TALE OF RENAISSANCE > Hello all, > > Excellent piece of work from Chitra lakshmi. > > I sincerely request you all to visit the agraharams or > the native place each one of us belong. These > Aghraharam were beaming with all the pride (in the > positive way) and the sounds of bajan every day > sending positive vibrations. > > I wish and hope there is some one out there like > Chitralakshmi who would just go out and find their > roots and know how much of damage we have caused in > the name of Jobs, foreign travel and relocation and > getting lost from the rich tradition and culture > passed on to us. > > I happened to be from a little village Called > Thaneerpalli in Trichy ( Tamilnadu). > > Our ancestral house which had a huge back yard and > with all its natural splendour and settings was sold > by my grand father who came from Mumbai declaring that > the house is not fit for living. It was a huge house > with 20 or 30 cocunut trees, a mango tree and a jack > fruit and the house back yard was the cauvery canal. > > "What more man can ask for". > > This was sold for a paltry sum of 3000 Rs and with the > amount shared among two brothers and sisters the share > which came to my grandmother was used for buying a > hearing aid for her and a pair of reading glasses > which always was the center of contention between my > Grand father and Grand Mother as to who should use it > at what time. This was obviously the only pair of > reading glasses common to both of them. > > Can we now look back and take stock as to how foolish > we had been. Hope bettere sense will prevail with at > least those of us who are lucky and retaining our > ancestral property like the one I had. Now when I went > out there for buying it back and trying to search and > reestablish my roots I was demanded a hefty sum of > Rs.10 lakhs for this property. > > We should not only re establish our lost tradition but > make it a going tradition with a long term view and do > not repeat the mistakes we had comitted in the past > which has driven us out of this place. We can also > renovate the building and keep it as a summer holiday > resort and our children will remember us for ever for > what we have done to them. > > Any comments on this are welcome...and suggestions > too. > > Let us do our little part and do not let the richness > of the culture passed on to us by our dedicated > br>estors die an untimely and early death. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > Srirangasri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >
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