All posts by Vengrai Parthasarathy

Sharmila’s Vengeance    by vengrai parthsarthyIt is a pastime of mine, wheneverI read a story, to try mentally to give a different ending. This is what I tried to do after reading VENGEANCE by K.Parthasarathy. Here’s the scenario in case you do not recall the sequence of events. Vinod and Sharmila were an unhappy couple. He was a…

 Tamil Nadu’s Iyengars of Cricket (Author’s Note: As an Iyengar I am proud to write about Iyengar cricketers who have made a mark in this prince of games. This brief article is in no way intended to downsize others who have represented Madras/Tamil Nadu and India with distinction.) The first name that comes to mind…

APT WORDS, APTLY SPOKEN 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 led to the break up of the Soviet Union. What Churchill called the Iron Curtain came down. It is said that…

                           DEWAN BAHADUR T. RANGACHARIAR                               (Lawyer, Parliamentarian, Philanthropist                                            Independence Activist)) By Vengrai Parthasarathy At the climax of his speech, moving a formal resolution for Dominion Status for India, Dewan Bahadur T. Rangachariar, representing Madras City in the Central Legislature, said :…

ri 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…

Vimala  versus Vinod Vengrai Parthasarathy     “Did you post that letter to my mother?”, asked Vimala of her husband as he returned home after a tiring day at office. “What letter?”, he asked as he unknotted his tie. “I just wanted to know whether you posted the letter to my mother which I gave you”,…

I wrote this article some time back…in the Helium.Have a dekho!……………Dad _______________________________________________ By Vengrai Parthasarathy Rabindranath Tagore (aka Gurudev) was the first poet of the Indian literary canon to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year 1915 for the collection of his poems, GITANJALI- ( Prayerful Offering of Songs). Tagore, was an authentic…

CHEEK TO CHEEK                        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 a closer look.…

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…

____________________ BRITISH FAT CATS -by Ven Parthsarthy Wednesday, April 02, 2008 This story has been read 280 times.  Blog this story  BRITISH FAT CATS…..by  Vengrai Parthasarathy   The tides of history washed  away the legacies  of British rule  in India on August 15, 1947. Those were days when Indians meekly accepted the status of   ‘Subject of His Majesty…