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  FOOTBALL OR CRICKET?   Vengrai Parthasarathy   (The following are selections from many sources—all about Cricket. But.. there is a But to it. Is the first item Football or Cricket? You be the judge..)   Mankad pushed the ball to mid-on. Merchant set off for a single that was turned down by Mankad. Merchant…

  Cricket Cookies                                        Vengrai Parthasarathy                                                                      …

Iyengars of Cricket       by             Vengrai Parthasarathy   Being an Iyengar I am tempted to write about Iyengar Cricketers who have made a mark in this prince of games. No way is this brief article intended to downsize  others who have represented Madras and India The first…

Twelve Divine Names (Tamil)Mon Jan 5, 2015 5:39 pm (PST) . Posted by:“Vengrai Parthasarathy”Tamil — 108 Divine Names—(By late Sri P.B.ANNangarAchAriar SwAmi)Late Sri P.B. Anangara Chariar Swamy, Savant ofKanchipuram, and authority on Vaishnava Sampradayam, had composedwhat he called “The 108 Divine Names” of Lord Narayanain Tamil as a parallel to the Ashtothra NamavaLi in Sanskrit.…

Vengrai Parthasarathy <vengrai@hotmail.com> 8/26/07 to me  Apt Words, Aptly Spoken.                                  By Vengrai Parthasarathy “Mr.Gorbachev, tear down that wall” roared President Reagan. The twentieth anniversary of these prophetic words was observed by the media. Eventually, though not as a direct result events…

Face to Face… By Vengrai Parthasarathy I am not a male chauvinist but  I have always believed that while men are superior to women  in some respects, women are in others. Simply stated they can never be equal. This is disputed.by, none else than the wife.  She clings to a meaningless phrase ‘Better-half” being bandied about.. ..I am convinced…

Vengrai Parthasarathy <vengrai@gmail.com> 8:57 PM (2 minutes ago)      In the early forties of the last century, Chennai aka Madras was a vibrant city. India’s population in those days was around 30 crores–a fourth of what it is now. Streets were not over- crowded and traffic very leisurely.One can move about without being nudged and …

Sri M.N. SINGALACHAR  ( My wife’s uncle)   Sri Mandayam Natampalli .(MN). Singalachar  (Shamanna to his intimate friends and family) ,was born on June 13, 1912 in a village near Tumkur. He was the only son of Smt. and Sri.N.Venkatachar. and was  married to  his niece Smt. Sreerangoo in 1937.  He was the beating heart of…

Sri V.N,Venkatavaradachariar …….Sri V.N.Venkata Varadachariar.. ..A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY…… Sri V.N. VENKATA VARADACHARIAR, Advocate Madras (in whose memory his family members have instituted an endowment in the department of Vaishavism, in the University f of Madras) was born on14 October, 1888 in the Vengrai village of Salem district to Sri V. Narasimhachariar and Smt. Janaki Ammal He belonged to the Tirumalai Nallan Chakravarthy family who devoted…

          Krishna Drops a Brick                                   By Vengrai Parthasarathy          Krishna  our hero, was a ‘Made in USA‘ guy, born and educated in Texas. This fourteen-year old liked to be called Chris, the name given by his  American  friends.       Chris had a Western accent and a slight drawl which sounded funny when he tried to speak…