Topic started by Priya (@ gateway.gmcc.ab.ca) on Thu Nov 8 12:00:10 .
Hi guys and gals!
I am a great fan of Kalki. I love his Ponniyin Selvan. Plesae share your thoughts about this wonderful book.
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Topic started by Priya (@ gateway.gmcc.ab.ca) on Thu Nov 8 12:00:10 .
Hi guys and gals!
I am a great fan of Kalki. I love his Ponniyin Selvan. Plesae share your thoughts about this wonderful book.
Great book. it is still evergreen with readers.one of the great classics of modern tamil literature
Only Kalki could write Ponniyin Selvan because he was truly a "Tamizhin Selvan"
hai
i need an ebook of ponniyin selvan
can help me,to find that one
You can get it on projectmadurai
Ponniyin Selvan is my alltime favourite book by Kalki. I also like his other books such as Nandhipurathu Nayaki. But I read all these when i was in school. I dont remember everything, but some parts are so interesting that I could never forget them. I liked the paintings by Maniam, and Kalki's way of writing, the smooth flow. It was never boring to read the book again and again.
Nice to know that there are lots of fans for Kalki.
Deepa,
Nandhipuraththu Nayaki is not by Kalki. It was written by 'Vikraman' (editor of 'Amudha Surabi' magazine)
Ponniyin selvan is hot favorite me.can any body share ur thoughts abt the character which affected u?
I think Nandhini, Azhaarkadiyan are fictious characters.Any other such characters are there?
Also I have seen Veeranam aeri only through kalki's words.
Murugan:
there is a Yahoo group which discusses PS in
detail...see
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ponniyinselvan/?yguid=4881001
Kalki Krishnamoothy is still living and will live for ever. He is celeberated as AMARAR just like Rabindranath Tagore and Mahakavi Bharathi. To my judgement Amarar Krishnamoorthy is not second to Shakspeare. Ponniyin selvan is such a great creation because almost all the characters living in his mega novel live in our imagination.
I dont know why these cinema producers never think about making films sellecting stories from the novel. Sexy Love unbelievable fights and belly dances are the only sequences the South Indian cinema businessmen think the Tamil women old women boys and girls would like.Damn sin.
Kalki Krishnamoothy is still living and will live for ever. He is celeberated as AMARAR just like Rabindranath Tagore and Mahakavi Bharathi. To my judgement Amarar Krishnamoorthy is not second to Shakspeare. Ponniyin selvan is such a great creation because almost all the characters living in his mega novel live in our imagination.
I dont know why these cinema producers never think about making films sellecting stories from the novel. Sexy Love unbelievable fights and belly dances are the only sequences the South Indian cinema businessmen think the Tamil women old women boys and girls would like.Damn sin.
I read all the 5 volumes of Ponniyin Selvan at a stretch and completed within 4 weeks. Just can't take my eyes off. But I missed the lively paintings of Maniam Selvan, since i read the downloaded versions from the Net. Can anybody let me know whether these paintings are uploaded somewhere in the net. I would be grateful to them. Please mail me the URL to vksankaran@yahoo.com
Thanks in advance,
Vijay Kumar
Actually, when I finished reading Ponniyin Selvan, I felt, why this novel ended. Can't this continue for anopther 5 volumes. Rathertthan knowing the end, I was more interested in knowing what happened next. The characters were lively. Infact I have fallen in love with the character Kunthavai. I kept reading the portions where Kunthavai, proposes to Vanthiyathevan in the jail and also the last part, where she tells him that she rejected the Pallava Prince's sugsestion of marrying her. Really beautiful Novel. A master piece. Iam wondering, why such novels are not prescribed for the Tamil Syllabus. Such novels should be prescribed for Tamil syllabus, rather than silappathikaaram.
can i get the varthamanan publishers new address in tnagar
pls
dumb heads who proprogate reading such juvenile stuff . laughing my heads thinking of how how really low intelligence level creatures must be who read kalki and describe it as if it is the bible in a church reading.
Ponniyin Selvan - after reading so many times, I was left wondering, who is the hero in this. My God! can anyone write a novel of 5 volumes, but the reader will not have an idea whether Arulmozi Varman or Vandhiya Thevan is the hero. Going by the title it may be Arulmozi but the story goes with Vandiya Thevan. Also, characters like Azwarku Adiyan, Kandamaran, Pinagabani (you can add on ...) are really memorable. In fact, few years back, with my friend in Bangalore, our office collegues were compared with the Characters of P. Selvan. It was great fun. Most of the characters were there.
i am an aredent fan rather a mad of kalkis novels both historical,social and comedy.i am so fortunate to have the collection of ponniyin selvan the one serialises in 1955 with drawings of maniam and the second one with vinu thirs one again reproduction of manian and fourth one also.
i have collectionof his novels and interested in collecting his articles under the pen name of karnatakam
ponniyin selvan a wondernovel one gets trabsformed in to the character as the character comes. many a times i got transformed in to vandhiyadevan and arul mozi varmar as well as kundavai.all the characters finding their way in me.and the characters are lively drawn by manaiam,second vinu venkatram,thirs reproduced from manaiam fourth manaim selvan and fifth time by srilnakn artist all are wonderfully but the later ones are just reproduction of the original ones of manaim.the pazuvettariyars both peria and chinna are illustrated by the great artist maniyam so nicely .i have read the all the five parts over 50 times narrations are similar to that of alexander dumas.
ponniyin selvan a wondernovel one gets trabsformed in to the character as the character comes. many a times i got transformed in to vandhiyadevan and arul mozi varmar as well as kundavai.all the characters finding their way in me.and the characters are lively drawn by manaiam,second vinu venkatram,thirs reproduced from manaiam fourth manaim selvan and fifth time by srilnakn artist all are wonderfully but the later ones are just reproduction of the original ones of manaim.the pazuvettariyars both peria and chinna are illustrated by the great artist maniyam so nicely .i have read the all the five parts over 50 times narrations are similar to that of alexander dumas.
Can anyone please let me know if there is any available collection of Maniam Selvan's painting/drawings on the net or for sale?
folks! point me to a place (in web) where i can download ponniyin selvan all parts... thx
G'Day Kumaran,
Please find the link for the Ponniyin Selvan on the net:
http://www.geocities.com/ponniyinselvan_kalki/index.html
Regards,
Aravinthan
Hi,
Can any one please let me know where I can buy Ponniyin Selvan all 5 parts with Maniam's or Vinu's Drawings? If any one selling please send me a mail.
Thanks
Regards,
Aravinthan
Hi,
Can any one please let me know where I can buy Ponniyin Selvan all 5 parts with Maniam's or Vinu's Drawings? If any one selling please send me a mail.
Thanks
Regards,
Aravinthan
Hi
i have keept my son name as Ponniyin Selvan all the tamil mans , must keep tamilnames to our baby
and i am form bangalore
my names
karikalavalavan
Hi my dear friends,
Ponniyin selvan is a wonderful story. It is one of the feather in the head of our Tamizh Annai. I greatly admire Our friend Vandhia Thevan,Arulmozhi,Kundavai,Karikalan,Azhwarkadian etc.,etc.
It is a great novel. I suggest to the Tamil Film world to take this great novel as a Mega Serial.
Instead of taking "mamiyar" and "marumagal" fighting serials.
If anybody who wants to speared our Tamizh Culture and our rich heritage, they have to take Ponniyin Selvan,Sivagamiyin Sabatham and Parthiban Kanavu as a Serial.
Thanks and Regards
GGood that the film industry has spared PS and hasn't taken any films on that. Whoever had read it, have had gr8 imagination of the novel and whoever sees it without reading the novel will never read the novel. Also we have some lively imaginations of all the characters. Why should we want to disturb them.
"KaNNil kkatchi thOndrivittaal karpanai maRainthu vidum
kaNNil thOndraa kkatchiyil thaan kaRpanai vaLarnthuvidum"
In fact I am already in love with Kunthavai. So I don't want to see any of the present actresses to do that role and tarnish the imaginatery ffigure I have drawn of her.
Hi Vijay, I strongly agree with you, better not the film industry ruin the purity of the novel.
hi guys, It's one the greatest novels i'hv ever read. we tamils should be very proud for our ancient culture dipicted beautifully by Thru Kalki.Vanthia devan, Arulmolzhi vermar, Adithya Karikalan, Kundavai,Ponkulalai,and offcourse Nandani what great characters and the beatuy for Tamilnadu described by thee author the flowing rivers the prety maidens the great warriors the customs which were followed, makes you feel that we should have lived in that period rather than live today
every one who read the ponniyin selvan will be addicted to the novel. no wonder the film personalities trying to picturise the story. From M.G.R to kamal every one tried making the film. But its their ego which prevented them doing the film. they have confusion chosing the role whether to take vanthiyathevan who comes all along the story or the hero arulmozhivarmar.
anyhow as vijay said if it is made into a film the all our imaginations will be ruined.
En einya nanbargale
Ponniyin selvan 5 paguthigalum ennakku vandum. entha vilasatthil ulladhu enbathai theyriya paduthinal migavum nallathu.
Nandhini character ondru mattum thaan namadhu tamil kalacharathai ellaam ulagukku theriya padutthum
ungal eniya Nanban
Loganathan T
u can only feel the story and not describe about it can read it anynumber of times and from anywhere and still ur interest won't fall down u just don't read a novel actually u live it and all the songs quoted also stay in ur memory foreg. kandein kandein kandein kannukiniyanai kandein. etc., u come across a variety of characters and yet each one of them are important and cotribute to the story in their own way u can just go on saying things but the best way to comment over it is just read it once more or introduce it to a new person who haven't read it will be a good experience.
Oh well what words can do justice to Ponniyin Selvan ? I read the first three parts in physical format and the last two parts in electronic format....None of todays english novels can come anywhere near this master piece....
Hello friends,
Really I am very happy that these much fans are there to Ponniyin Selvan (here after we may call as "PS").
I have read three times the PS from my childhood days in Kalki weekly cuttings where we can feel the character on us by Maniam selvam drawings of each and every part. So the good way of making this book is through Kalki weekly, if it is running now.
And also I would like to tell that "If anybody want to feel the days of Rajaraja Cholan ("RC"), you have to go once Thanjavur Big temple and Palace.
I use to go regularly there whenever I visited to native. Yes, Thanjavur is my native and am proud of it.
Have a visit to Big temple at the morning time which is good time to feel the great architecture of RC and his contemporarians and have ride to Palace at evening time. The present palace is actually not a RC's one, it is Maratia king's ("MK"). I heard that RCs palace was located near Srinivasapuram area behind to Big temple. Recently somebody has found one great pillar built 1000 years ago while digging there for house construction. Come to present palace, here the vibration, lighting and smell which I felt of by the buildings and things is really carrying me to the RC's days. The same vibrations might have pesent in the RC's days. Becaue this present palace was built in the same sand of RC's 300 to 400 years ago by MKs. These feelings I had from my childhood days whenever I visted the Palace with my grandpa. So please have a ride to Thanjavur to fulfill the PS fan.
Thanks to share my thoughts.
Rajesh.
A damn good book that will take you to the ancient times and make you see all the events with your own eyes. I enjoyed it very much. Im glad to know that there is an English version of this great work. Oooopphhhewww...... no words to say.......
Dear Friends,
really iam very happy, to see this website, i many thanks to priya for this web site, what a great author, what a great story superb characters, i like all characters even vaidhiyar maghan, also support a important character. nandhini, pazhuvatharayar, great, so please tell all of ur freinds to read this book, because this is one of our historical evidence.
thank u for given this chance.
Vandhiyadevan Ninaivudhan
endrum anbudhan
santhosh kumar.
hi friends
gr8 to find that there are so many ppl who liked the novel.i too,have read the novel numerous times,since my child hood days.but i have one query in my mind ,for which unfortunately,i cudnt find any answer in the novel.who really is the father of nandhini?kalki ,himself has not answered this question clearly..In one part he says she is the daughter of the pandia king whom she tried to save.Then in some another place he says she was born to another guy whom he refers as karunthiraman,who saved her from the sea.
Can someone throw some light on this...
Arun
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