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From: nraju@usc.edu (Narayanan Raju)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Reservation for temple priests
Date: 18 Aug 92 00:35:31 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: nunki.usc.edu

Mr. Sundar writes
>        You might know the Supreme court ruling in Tamil Nadu Brahmins
 >       Association vs Tamil Nadu Govt during  DMK regim on 'who is
>        eligible to become a temple priest'. The ruling was that non-
>        brahmins are not eligible even if they are qualified. Reservation
>        hater RT, please note the 100% resevation at least for this
>        profession. May be this is following the bright idea of Rajaji:
>        The 'kulak kalvi thittam'. 

>M. Sundaramoorthy
>sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci.edu


There are non-Brahminical temples as well. The Supreme court doesn't
let Brahmins perform poojas there.

Christians have 100% reservation for the the post of Christian priests.
		so do the Muslims
		so do the Brahmins
		so do the the various non-Brahminical communities.
	(the only difference between various Hindu communities and, Christians 
and Moslems, is that the Hindu communities accept and worship other gods while
the Christians and Moslems don't. Hindus worship Jesus, Allah, even Virgin Mary,
whom the Christians don't worship: eg. Annai Vellankanni. In other words
Hindus do not belong to a single community)



Temples priesthood go by the community that owned it historically just
like how land and property goes.

DON'T MISINTERPRET JUSTICE.


Raju
raju@spock.usc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: kumar@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (V.R.Kumar)
Subject: Re: reservation
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 23:06:03 GMT

In article <l93cr2INN2om@nunki.usc.edu> nraju@usc.edu (Narayanan Raju) writes:
>Mr. V.R Kumar writes,
>>Mr.Rammohan's brother might not have got guindy.
>>But it is untrue that his friend with only 43% got Guindy. The 
>>minimum cut-off percentage for bothe backward and Forward castes to
>>enter guindy is 70%. There have been many incidents where many BC
>>guys despite with more than 90% could not enter Guindy.
>
>
>
>If what Mr. V.R Kumar says is true, the BC's have caught up with the
>FC's in terms of education. Then why have reservation at all.


Hmmmm...... Just because many BC guys got good marks, it does not mean
that BC has caught up with FC. Interesting conclusion Mr.Raju !!!
Tamil Nadu is just not Madras alone. Have u visited the villages in
Tamil Nadu ? There are still a very large number of community who are
unable to go even to school mate !!. Think about them. Take for example,
the poor agriculturists who work for us. How many of their sons or
daughters have entered professional colleges ? How many of the so called
FC community are poor agriculturists ??? Think...
I do agree that some people try to play with this researvations
illegaly. That does not mean that all poor people are ........

Do not make generalizations. Do u mean to say that BC guys             
are not intelligent as FC guys. Reservation was formed on the basis
of the standard of life and not on intelligence. REservation was formed
to give opportunities to those who are economically poor. Just because
some BC guys are doing well in wealth and studies, it does not mean 
that the entire India has changed. Majority are still below poverty
in India. 
 
My family is a typical example for this. V are from a poor agriculturist
family. My father was the first to enter a college from my village.
My sister was the first to enter a college from my village in 1985.
Since my father made the change, I and my brothers were able to enter
colleges. Still there are lot of families without any education. 
The reason is not because they are not interested, its because of 
poverty. Those who talk in this net about this FC and BC etc....
will not be against the reservations if they know what poverty is and
have lived in poverty. So, no generalizations please.

Reservation is very much essential for a country like India.
 

Anbudan,

V R Kumar


-- 
 V.R.Kumar (Ramkumar Venkatachalam)                                 
 CSIRO, Division of Information Technology                         
 P.O.Box:1599, Macquarie Centre, North Ryde, NSW 2113, AUSTRALIA  

Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: Venkatachalam Aruna  (Affable)
Subject: Re:  Temples in US
Reply-To: aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu (Venkatachalam Aruna)
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:30:22 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.152545.9624@infonode.ingr.com>  
remote@control.b30.ingr.com (Remote Control) writes:
> 
> Hello Netters,

Dai sathisu! athenna remote controllu?
Anyway, what are you controlling remotely?(hope not your fiancee
in India) ;-) 
[ stuff deleted]
> 
> these temples  in the future ? I don't see many of the second 
> generation Indians interested in all these.
 DON'T WORRY. FIRST GENERATION INDIANS WILL ALWAYS BE THERE.
> 
> Do people ever  think  about the  future before constructing a 
> temple?  Am I  missing  something   here ? And why is that all 
> the temples are constructed and administered by South Indians? 
> I have not seen  any  North  Indian  style temples (like Birla 
> Mandir) in the U.S of A.
 INTERESTING. NO COMMENTS.
> 
> Cheers
> satish
 PS: Why did you post same article twice?

Cheers,
Venkat
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: Veeramany.Sthanumurthy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Veeramany Sthanumurthy)
Subject: Re: Uniform transliteration in the net : Some suggestions
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 01:19:12 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.215129.28681@menudo.uh.edu> aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu (Venkatachalam Aruna) writes:
>In article <1992Aug14.211811.14203@wuecl.wustl.edu> sp2@cec1.wustl.edu (Sundara  
>Pandian) writes:
>> In article <1992Aug14.204754.11803@samba.oit.unc.edu>  
>Veeramany.Sthanumurthy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Veeramany Sthanumurthy) writes:
>> >In article <9208142003.AA28294@cec1.wustl.edu> sp2@cec1.wustl.edu (Sundara  
>Pandian) writes:
>[All the stuff reg. tranliteration deleted]
>> >ittudan Adamiyai maRanduvidumaRu paNivudanum paNbudanum kooRi
>> >:-)
>> 
>>   Do I see a typing error above ?
>>   I wish writers could minimize using the :-) symbol for
>>  smile, when there is nothing to laugh about.
> 
> I think Sthan uses smiley because of the pun intended from "Adami"
>which means "manushan" in Hindi. Am I right, Sthan?

Great save (Venkat? ) - it was much simpler and sillier -
Pandian is right.

Let me explain. I had seen this tendency to stick to English
all the time quite strange for this newsgroup. So, I was trying
out my rusty thamizh (I think we should stick to the notation
for all words including "Tamil") - so the smiley was misplaced.
But, the tone is set quite early. Oh well ..

[Forget about my p.p.ku: more of the same - but unfortunately
 I failed in translating both Affable *and* prolific. :-(]

As for Adami itself rather the transliteration scheme:
I will wait for ITrans (or whatever it is called.)

Sthan.

>Cheers,
>Venkat

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From: vaidhyan@ecn.purdue.edu (Ramesh Vaidhyanathan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: A Critique of Tamil Cinema (sort of)
Date: 13 Aug 92 04:40:52 GMT
Reply-To: vaidhyan@cn.ecn.purdue.edu
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Aug13.033925.21752@u.washington.edu>, ngrjn@milton.u.washington.edu (V Nagarajan) writes:
|> 	[lot of stuff deleted]
|> 
|> 	There is very little by way of originality. I have read articles by 
|> 	Randor Guy, a historian of Tamil movies. Basically the plots (in
|>      ^^^^^^ ^^^
|>	[lot of stuff deleted]
|> 
|> 							Rhetorically,
|> 							Nagarajan


An interesting info. about this "Randaar Gui" (a tamil writter!).
His original name is "Rangadurai" and he shuffled the letters in 
his name to get this name. He used to write lot of crime thriller
novels. It is intersting to know that he is a 'historian of tamil
movies'.

BTW where did these articles by "Randaar Gui" on the history of
tamil movies published?

-Ramesh Vaidhyanathan
From: sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci.edu (M. Sundaramoorthy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: Aaaaa....Rambam :- It's kadi time
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:53:01 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine

In article <1992Aug21.143734.22010@news.acns.nwu.edu> rags@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Raghavan Jayaraman) writes:
>Kettadum, KerKAdadum, PARthadum PARkadadum:-
>---------------------------
>Today's venue :- Class room
>
>Biology Prof:-
>
>"anju vanavilangu perai sollu"
>
>"2 Puli, 3 singam"
>
>-----Math Prof:-
>
>"Araiyai NAllAl perukinal enna varum?"
>
>"kuppai varum"
>
>-----Geology Prof.
>
>"India-vin talainagaram enGE ullaDu?"
>
>"theriyadu!"
>
>"sari! benchu meLE YEru"
>
>"anGEirundu theriyumA saar?"
>
>------------Tamil AYYA
>
>"pAAlgal YAvana?"
>
>"AAn pAAl, pen pAAl, AAvin pAAl, AMMA pAAl"
>
>[for those curious souls, the last one corresponds to the way the milk
>vendors shout]
>
>------Nallozhukka [moral] Prof.
>
>He is demonstrating the evils of 'SARAyam ['sarakku' in tamil]. He takes a
>500 ml beaker and pours in it exactly 200 ml of sarakku [a carefully blend
>mixture of ethyl, methyl alchohol spiced with battery and other garbages]
>and dumps in it a worm [ear-marked to reach heaven that day]. The students
>witness that execution with much awe. Now quizz time.
>
>"idil-irundu enna therikiradu?"
>
>"sarakku sApittAL vayathil ulla pOOchigal SAgum enna therigiradu"
>
>----
>A recent news is:- that prof.was seen to be adrift somewhere in Himalayas.
>
>------ English Prof.
>
>"who is the world's champion speller?"
>
>"........" [politically correct answer]
>
>------------
>Gigabyte 

	I remember a practical school joke. There was a mischievious guy in my 
	village (his name is Ulagamurthy) and there was craft master 
       (Carpentary), in the school.   

	The teacher asked a question one by one:
	
	'kalappai (plough) ceyya udhavum maram enna maram?'
	
	When 'ulakkai's (that is how he is called, because of his name and size)
	turn came, he told

	'vaazhai maram' 

	Normally the language teachers would not care much about 'composition'
	till the inspection day arrives. Only during that time they would 
	insist to write 10 or more compositions at once. One of my classmates
	didn't complete till a day before the inspection day and the Tamil
	teacher was very angry and nervous. The student promised he would
	surely submit the next day. The teacher asked,

	'naaLaikku ezhudhittu varalanna unakku enna dhaNdanai kudukkalaam?.'

	'thookku dhaNdanai kudunga saar.'

	The boy was absent on the inspection day.


M. Sundaramoorthy
sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci.edu  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: jsg9939@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (J. Sreedhar )
Subject: Re: reservation
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 04:26:51 GMT

kumar@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (V.R.Kumar) writes:


>Reservation is very much essential for a country like India.
> 

>Anbudan,

>V R Kumar


>-- 
> V.R.Kumar (Ramkumar Venkatachalam)                                 
> CSIRO, Division of Information Technology                         
> P.O.Box:1599, Macquarie Centre, North Ryde, NSW 2113, AUSTRALIA  

Okay, but for how long? And should it be from cradle to grave?!

Isn't it true that all humans (and Indians in particular) tend
to `relax' and become less productive when there is no accountabiliy?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: mvishnu@morse.uwaterloo.ca (m vishnu)
Subject: Re: tolkaapiyam-tamil facts-2
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:16:01 GMT

In article <kat.714162661@sybok> kat@doe.carleton.ca (Kathiravan Krishnamurthi) writes:
>
[stuff deleted ...]
>
>
>To my good friend Ravi Kuchimanchi who told Tamil
>is just like Bengaali and not older than Kannada.
>
>    There is yet another important difference between Tamil
>and other Dravidian languages: the metalanguage of Tamil has
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>always been Tamil, never sanskrit. As A. K. Ramanujan
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>says(in Language and Modernization, p 31):``In most
>
>
This is a very important point you made.  Tamil is the ONLY Indian
language, whose metalanguage is Tamil.  FOR ALL OTHER INDIAN LANGUGES
(including Telegu, Kannada, Hindi etc), the metalanguage is Sanskrit!
That makes the Tamil language,  in my opinion,  unique among the Indian
languages.
>
>
>----------------------more to follow-------
>
>Kathiravan
>

Meenan Vishnu

Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: shiva@b30.ingr.com (Shiva Shivakumar)
Subject: Cho, Karunanidhi etc..
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:01:13 GMT

In article <2A8183EA.29784@noiro.acs.uci.edu> sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci.edu (M. Sundaramoorthy) writes:
>	DMK. Now that DMK has become a party of non-brahmin upper castes
>	(yes, Annadurai, Nedunchezhiyan, Anbazhagan represent this 
>	category and the only exception is Karunanidhi and naturally
>	became a target of attack by every one). Now the next in the
>	caste-hierarchy is underpreviledged middle castes

>
>	The partisan attitude of Madras press is obvious from safegaurding
>	press freedom itself. When 'aanatha vikatan' editor was arrested
>	at the behest of P.H.Pandian, the entire Madras press rallied 
>	against the speaker. And a union minister went a step ahead to
>	apologise on his behalf. But, now the freedom of expression is
>	in more danger and the most committed political commentator
>	is searching, 'engE brahamaNan?'. And K.P. Sunil, Nakkiran
>	editor, Maalai Murasu editor and Murasoli sub-editor had
>	to seek the help of Suprem court. 


In essence, Mr. Sundaramurthy is saying :

Cho is scum, but respected because he is a brahmin.

Karunanidhi is a pure soul but is attacked because he is from a low-caste.

Thanks for enlightening the netters !

Jagadisan Shivakumar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.tamil
From: jsg9939@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (J. Sreedhar )
Subject: Re: Please do not respond to the article 'Periyar Temple'
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 04:33:32 GMT

raj@news.cs.odu.edu (M. P. Krishna Raj) writes:

>Please do not respond to the articles of the above nature.

>Ignore them.

>Raj

What is your problem, Mister Raj? 
Did the person who wrote the article `Let us build Periyar Temple'
come too close to the truth for your comfort? Or have you run
out of arguments?!!

LIVE & LET LIVE!

Sreedhar
From: bhat@ccad.uiowa.edu (Dinkar N. Bhat)
Subject: Re: Reservation for temple priests
Organization: CAD-Research, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:33:41 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.125338.17216@ms.uky.edu> aras@ms.uky.edu (P. I. Arasu) writes:
>thiyagarajan@mims.enet.dec.com (RT) writes:
>
>
>
>>>Mr. Sundar writes
>>>>        You might know the Supreme court ruling in Tamil Nadu Brahmins
>>> >       Association vs Tamil Nadu Govt during  DMK regim on 'who is
>>>>        eligible to become a temple priest'. The ruling was that non-
>>>>        brahmins are not eligible even if they are qualified. Reservation
>>>>        hater RT, please note the 100% resevation at least for this
>>>>        profession. May be this is following the bright idea of Rajaji:
>>>>        The 'kulak kalvi thittam'. 
>>> 
>>>>M. Sundaramoorthy
>>>>sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci.edu
>
>>I don't care about who is the priest in the temple ( I go to mariyamman temple
>>also where only non-brahmin priests are there). If a deal is given by the govt
>>to swap the 100% reservation in priests to 100% reservation in professional
>>colleges, I will take the later. Any questions?
>
>>Regards
>>RT
>	In reply to RT's post:
>	From your posts I gather you are miffed at brahmins being 
>	affected by reservations. Fact is previously 96% of the 
>	population was complaining about being left out. Today 
>	every body is. 
>	In my class of 40 there were 5 brahmin students (I studied
>	in govt engg college). So 4% of the population still enjoyed
>	much more than 4% of the seats. So you talk as if brahmins 
>	are completely excluded. That is bulls**t!
> 	You are the ones who say reservation is unethical. So it is
>	your responsibility to practice what you preach.
>	Marriamman temple priests are not priests. They are caretakers.
>	They usally are volunteers from local villages who have some
>	other full time jobs. They do not sing any praises of God.
>	They have no money or power. And they do not have fat tummies.
>	-arasu
>	

I think Mr. Arasu is virulently against brahmins. It is not a question
of whether 4% take 10% of seats. Why cant you get it in you that it
is a question of MERIT (heard of that?). I am definitely not
suggesting that forward class(SO CALLED) are better of more meritorious.
Whoever is best gets the seat. IS it that difficult to undertstand ?

Dinkar.
From: babu@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Natarajan Sureshbabu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: tamilnadu pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagangal
Keywords: TPTC,MPTC,CTC,NTC,PTC etc
Date: 18 Aug 92 02:15:14 GMT
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

In article <1992Aug17.214755.10868@menudo.uh.edu> aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu (Venkatachalam Aruna) writes:
>
>Chidamabaram - thanthai periyar pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Chennai      - pallavan pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Karaikudi    - maruthu pandiar pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Madurai      - pAndian pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Tiruchi      - dheeran chinnamalai pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Kovai        - cheran pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Kumbakonam   - chozhan pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Vellore      - pattukkotai azhagiri pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Krishnagiri  - rAni mangammAl pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Nellai       - kattabomman pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Nagercoil    - nEsamani pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Erode        - jeeva pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>  
>(1) Have I left something?

Yes, Anna pOkku................  
I know that it has a vizhuppuram depot.

>(4) Can anybody brief the importance of dheeran chinnamalai,
>    rani mangammAl, nEsamani?
>  (This may look silly. Really I don't know anything about them)

Nesamani was the leader of the agitation responsible
for KK District, separating from Kerala and joining TN.



Babu
From: savu@girtab.usc.edu (Avu Sankaralingam)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: A Request to International Olympic Committe
Date: 18 Aug 1992 01:27:17 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

While on the subject of the Olympics, they are primarily western 
sporting events which makes it difficult for third world nations to win
medals.  When there are third world nations that are good at the event
the rules can be changed to accomodate the western nations. (Hockey,
for instance)  

Thank god our livelihoods do not depend on how well we do in the Olympics.
Imagine if your next days bread was going to be decided on this markedly
uneven playing field.

Analogies seldom prove anything.  A case in point here.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,alt.culture.tamil
From: mvishnu@morse.uwaterloo.ca (m vishnu)
Subject: EVR part 3
Originator: mvishnu@morse.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 01:44:08 GMT



More on EVR from the PhD thesis of Charles Ryerson, "Regionalism and
Religion, The Tamil Renaissance and Popular Hinduism".


I asked EVR why he was so friendly to Buddha. He replied that Buddha 
advocated reason.  "Even the word 'Buddha' means reason and sense."
But Buddhism became a religion and so he is not a Buddhist. "Buddha 
is different from Buddhism". (EVR interview with the author).

"The real fact is that all those who lose faith in Bramin priest, the
Vedas, Sashtras, Ithihasas, and Puranas are called athiest.  If superstition
and exploitation of the priests cannot be destroyed without one becoming an
athiest, well ther eis nothing wrong in becoming an athiest.."
(EVR's book "Social Reformsa and Social Revolution ?"trans. by 
A.M Dharmalingam)

His opponents often cite a remark he made about Tamil being a "barbaric"
language.  In my final interview with him, I asked about this.  He replied
that by "barbaric" he meant "primitive" and any old language is primitive.
"There are no words in Tamil for rational ideas and scientific inventions.
Moreover, it has problems with social terms.  There are no respectable words
for women--no plural form for feminine word.  Tamil even lacks a proper
word for 'marriage' ".  He stressed in that interview that Tamils must
be freed form venerating their language so that thewy can develop it,
"and create a new scientific basis for our society" (EVR interview with
the author).


Despite these outspoken views on Tamil one can find in his speeches a pride
in the Tamil literary past and that pride was related to his worl view and 
ethos.  Thiruvalluvar, author of the Kural, has his admiration:

"After the Buddha, the great Thiruvalluvar was born in India...He 
preached what Buddha had taught. His inestimable Thirukkural was thrown
into the waste paper basket to shamelessly hug the Gita and Manu's code"

(to be continued ...)

Meenan Vishnu



Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: kumar@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (V.R.Kumar)
Subject: Re: tamilnadu pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagangal
Keywords: TPTC,MPTC,CTC,NTC,PTC etc
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 04:21:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.214755.10868@menudo.uh.edu> aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu (Venkatachalam Aruna) writes:
>
>Chidamabaram - thanthai periyar pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Chennai      - pallavan pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam

              - Thiruvalluvar pokkuvaraththuk kaxhagam
 
>Karaikudi    - maruthu pandiar pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Madurai      - pAndian pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Tiruchi      - dheeran chinnamalai pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Kovai        - cheran pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Kumbakonam   - chozhan pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Vellore      - pattukkotai azhagiri pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Krishnagiri  - rAni mangammAl pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Nellai       - kattabomman pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Nagercoil    - nEsamani pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Erode        - jeeva pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
              
              - Anna Pokkuvaraththuk kazhagam


Anbudan,

V R Kumar

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 V.R.Kumar (Ramkumar Venkatachalam)                                 
 CSIRO, Division of Information Technology                         
 P.O.Box:1599, Macquarie Centre, North Ryde, NSW 2113, AUSTRALIA  

Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
From: Venkatachalam Aruna  (Affable)
Subject: Re: Tamil Names - A request
Reply-To: aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu (Venkatachalam Aruna)
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:58:17 GMT

In article <6844@stan.xx.swin.oz.au> sri@stan.xx.swin.oz.au (SRITHARAN K)  
writes:
> 
> 
> One of my friend is interested in giving a short but
> meaningful tamil name to his newy born baby boy.
> 
> Can someone in the SCT netters suggst some meaningful
> tamil names and the meantime it can be pronounced by
> westerners easily.
> 
> I believe it will help lot us.
> 
> 
> Sri

Here you go:
  Kamban   |
  Elango   | - Not meaningful, but tamil
  Paari    |
  Vallal
  Sundar(am)
  Prakash
  Vijay(an)
  Arun(an)
  Kumar(an)
  Raj(an)
  Prabhu
  Ravi
  Uday(an)
  
Cheers,
Venkat

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venkat@jetson.uh.edu                  | If you love something,set it free.
venkat@menudo.uh.edu                  | If it comes back, it is yours.
aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu(NeXT mails okay)| If it does not, it never was.
(713)-923-7773(h) & (713)-743-4250(w) |
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