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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…

____________________________________________________ SHAKE HANDS WITH VENKY Vengrai Parthasarathy Venky ? There is only one Venky in San Diego, the one and only. He is M.C. Venkatesh. M stands for you know what ( Ubiquitous MANDAYAM) and C for Chakravarthy. Venky is a Malleswaram lad, the only son of late M.C.Sampathiyengar, noted Chief Engineer of Karnataka. He…

Vengrai’s Book–TiruppAvai– Review By Prema Nandakumar THIRUPPAVAI By Sri Vengrai V. Parthasarathy Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore, Chennai – 600 004. 2008. xviii + 78 pages. Rs.30 Andal exemplifies the only instance of a poetess becoming a goddess. We study her Nachiyar Tirumozhi and Tiruppavai as devotional hymns that form a rich portion of Tamil literature.…

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. To improve things the alternative would have been for…

 HOLY WELL                                            ………Vengrai Parthasarathy                                                              …

TWENTY-TWENTY–BANG-BANG! -by Ven Parthsarthy Wednesday, October 03, 2007        To an ophthalmologist, twenty-twenty means only one thing— a perfect vision. In today’s Cricketing  terms  20-20 stands for the ‘Wham-Bam-Thank-You-Ma’am’  syndrome.      What is cricket coming to?  The Bradmans  and Hammonds, the Huttons, Hazares and Vijay Merchants ,the Vinoo Mankads. C.K. Nayudus—what has happened…

Nandan’s Rude Awakening * _____Vengrai Parthasarathy___________________________ Nandan was a middling  officer in an export firm. He was tall and handsome as his wife Radha was charming and petite. She was a Lecturer in a Women’s college. The report is that he fell for her dimple and ended up marrying the whole girl. A cozy pair, they…

LOST  AND FOUND….         Vengrai Parthasarathy        My son-in-law  Mr.Partha Mandayam told me the following  strange  “IT HAPPENED TO ME ” story. Here he speaks:    ” 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. …

 CHEEK TO CHEEK                                  By Vengrai Parthasarathy  The story I am about to tell opens on a gold-framed mirror in an apartment.  Arjun stared at the mirror for one full minute, He could not believe what he saw. It was not there the previous day.  The pink dot. He got up on his toes for…