Yagyaraman Mahadevan

We realise this heaven only after leaving Tamil Nadu.
anbudan aruna

lovely place.. wish to spend my life there.. lets see atleast i will spend my retired life there..

I am pass out of Tilak Vidyalaya in the year 1968 and secured 76% in aggregate and 95% in maths. I belong to Viswanatha Puram Street and had my initial schooling in Ekambarapuram Elementary School. Whenever I go to Kallidai, I visit the school with my children to show them the class rooms where I studied, the canal and the roof top from where I dived. It is a lovely place. But a point of sorrow is that the water of Tamiraparani is becoming unfit for bathing, as the pollution is rearing its head.

ketpatharke romba aburvamagavum and santhoshamagavum iruku. in this century, i wonder this kind of brahmin culture is still alive. after reading this, i want to spend my occational leave there only. if anything near chennai, i want to purchase like this.

i hail from thonthivilagam st. my father is renganatha vathiyar.my brothers and sister are still there. I am50 years old. every year kallidai poven. vaikalil swim pannama varamaten.kallidai oru kanakanum kalangal. ninaithale inikkum.enga tehru vinayakar chathurthi thirunal ippavum vehu sirappaha nadakkirathu.wov the great kallidai.antha vaikal enna antha aathangarai enna chinna sankarnkoil enna perumal keruda sevai enna ther veethi ilvarum azhahu enna vadam pidikkum santhosham enna evalavo sollalam.ippozhuthu marainthuvitta adichevvai kolattappallakufunctionellam ninavukku varukirathu.

Dear All

My name is chandru and i hail from kandappapuram st and grandson of late ramasundaram iyer. iam pleased to inform u all that we have made some discoveries about the history of kallidai and its rich heritage. Since we have a rich culture, we are soon bringing a number of publications based on the place like history,culture and personalities and we are starting a Heritage Company to preserve and develop Kallidai to keep the legacy on. if any body is interested to join. pl kindly the details which u think valuable and can be shared for publications like old records,photographs..etc to my id racmaa@yahoo.com. my no is 9500033706. I live in Chennai and go 2 KIC for major functions.

Hello,

This is Harish from Kallidaikurithi. My parents are still residing in Thonthivilagam street & I use to visit on couple of occasions to kic. One for Vinayakar Chathurthi Festival & other one during Sabarimala Pilgrimage with Murthy Group (Seetharman Applam). I have uploaded lot of photos of our Chathurthi Festival & will upload the link asap. I can be reached at harishraman77@gmail.com

Small correction………my mother’s house in North Pattanainarpuram St and not Mla Pattanainarpuram St

Hi
I am balasubramanian. i am working in chennai. i am from thuthukudi district. i have been to kallidaikurichi 1981-82 when ADHIRUDRAM WAS CONDUCTED BY SRINGERI MUTT. that time my age was 12. still i am remembering that big house MATTUTHOLUVAM using as a dining hall and ANNAKODI was hoisted. great days. i was chanting rudram and i got Rs.2/- dhakshinai. great day.

Hai all I am abdullah from kallidai kurichi Periya Pallivasal Street,
Today only I just visit this site.This is wonderful to chat with you all.
Great KALLIDAI KURICHI.

Hi,
I am Subramanian. Father, Sankarapandian worked for TNEB. We were in Ramachandrapuram and then in Chetty Pillaimar Street. I studied in Panchayat Union school Std 1 to Std 3, 1972-1975. Lovely place…lovely memories. I can remember some of my buddies viz., Sankaralingam, Solomon and his brother Johnson (from Railway feeder road), Shanmugasundaram, Aari bala (girl), Pulavenderan, Abdul Hameed…………..anyway, nice thread to recollect about Kallidaikurichi

July 07 2010
Hi every one of Kallidaikurichi,
I am Shankar from Veerapuram street, Kallidaikurichi. I was bone and brought up
ar Kallidai and was there till my college days – now settled at Chennai. Still I am
having our Hourse 111, Veerapuram st.and used to come for visiting our Family Daity
at Samburvadakarai. At this moment I am at USA with my second daughter place at
Utha and we will be here till early Dec.I know many of our Kallidai vasies are at
US and I want to have contact with them. So do mail to my e.mail.kallidaishankar@yahoo.com
With love and regards
Shankar,

Shankar :
The site is very interesting. I want to join the same

R venkateswaran :
Dear all friends,
We may live for few decades and go back to the Almighty who created us.
But , the speciality of our Kallidaikurichi (Once Shri Abhinava vidya teertha Swamigal of sringeri named it as ‘Kalyana kurichi’ – as many marriages were taking place during His visit) is that it has many majestic temples which stand for centuries.
Maanendi appar temple is so beautiful with huge boundry walls. The murtis there r so beautiful. Specially the navagrahas are carved out with all perfection. Sapta maatas, and other Gods r also appealing. The God’s name is Kanva-lingam. The Devi is very much stylish. Vadivambal Devi. She only gives us strength during our difficult times.
Shri Subramanya swami temple is another majestic temple. Though the kodimaram is for Lord Ganesh (such a big temple for Shri Ganesh), he has given the importance to his brother, Shri Kartikeya.
The speciality in that temple is the beauiful murti of “Shri Dakshinamurti on the prahaaram, seated on the gopuram.
Shri Lakshmi Swami is a kan kanda deivam. He smiles so majestically. On those days he was adorned with lots and lots of ornaments of old fashion ( not these days glitterings !). Specially aarattu in Poopallakku used to bring tears in our eyes.
Vaalavanda Devi is another Shakti. My mother used to melt upon seeing her beauty during Navaratri. The utsava murti used to sit in an oonjal taking different avataras on different days.
Kandappa koil is having the speciality of having all the three brothers, Shri Ganesh, Shri Muruga and Shri Aiyappa.
My father used to tell about ‘pagali koothar temple’ in agastiyar koil theru. i never viisted it , unfortunately. similarly kottai theru temple . there is a saying that near the nataraja murti of Maanendiappar temple there is a secret underground route to kottai theru temple. Can anybody through light on this ?’
I seldom visit Kallidaikurichi but fondly remember its orthodox tradition.
We respectfully remember Shri NVS Sir, who was the Head master of Tilak Vidyalaya. In spite of his tight schedule, he used to teach us Shri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram in Bhajanai Mutt in Mudaliappa puram St.
Can we expect teachers, scholors, orthodox grandmothers , like them now ???

I do not know you personally, so also you are to me. From the figure in my E mail ID you can guess my year (1951) of birth Our thinking unites when you took me back to my school days. Reverent, Venerable, Respectable, Amiable NVS Sir was my class teacher in class XI in 1967-68. I pay my sincere thanks about reminding me about the specification and qualities a teacher should have. If another NVS Sir is born it will be boon to the Society. Thinking you must be younger to me, my blessings are showered on you for reminding about a great personality.

hai iam narayan from trichy last week 8th of july i came kallidai kurichhi due to sadavudayar koil prayer this is my kula deivam ennoda family la nannan than first intha koil vanthavan naan ekapatta kashthila intha koilukku vanthen eppo ennoda problem ellam konjamkonjama koranjunde varthu ellam sadavudayr arul

Hi! i am krishnamoorthy from mumbai. I chanced to surf this page today and felt like putting my thoughts.Though it is not my birthplace i have visited kallidaikurichi several times in the past, the last being in February 2005 when i visited the sadavudayar temple during a ‘thai vellikkizhamai’. Sadavudayar happens to be my mother’s kuladeivam but she being a female cannot visit the temple. Hence whenever i visited Kallidai I used to stay in my uncle’s place in Ekambarapuram street (Sri S.Raghavan, still living there.)who used to accompany me to the temple. On behalf of my mother I used to perform pooja and abhishekams to sadavudayar with the help of Kumar vadhyar of thonthivilagam st. During my visit in 2005 I participated in the pooja proceedings and happened to take with me the set of 4 CDs related to the proceedings of the Kumbhabhishekam performed in June 2004 and showed the proceedings to my mother. My mother, however, passed away in October 2007. Also my younger brother’s in laws who are no more hail from Kallidaikurichi ( Sri Desini and his wife Smt Lakshmi,one of the daughters of the founder of Chandra Vilas at Tirunelveli Junction. I have always enjoyed my visits to Kallidai. I hope I will be able to visit once again.

G. Seetharaman :Hai Sambamurthy, I still remember those days we studied together at Tilak Vidyalaya High School, though you were one or two years junior to me. I think you have two brothers (Vijayan and Murthy) and two sisters. Where are Vijyan and Murthy staying? Convey my regards to them. I am residing in Chennai at Vadapalani. I was working abroad for about 18 years and am now leading a retired life. I have two children; one son and daughter. Both are well settled in the U.S. Even myself and my wife are planning a trip to Kallidai by the end of this month (July 2010) to attend the Sastha Preethi to be conducted on 31st July at Mudaliappapuram Street. I was always looking for friends whenever I visited KIC. Our house is still there and Kumar has been staying there. This is my telphone number in Chennai 04423651046. When you get time please call me.Best regards,G. Seetharaman (Ambi)

Thank you for your reply. Vijayan is married and staying in Kolkata. Unfortunately no issues. Murthy is in Mumbai. Married to my uncle’s daughter Bucham (Ramamurthy (Ramudu)’s sister). He has one son and one daughter. Son has joined Engineering College. Daughter is studying in Class VIII. My elder sister Rengamani remained unmarried. My younger Sister Revathi and settled in Nanganallur (Near Anjaneyar temple) I have two sons. Elder son is doing third year engineering in Nagpur and second son is studying in Class XI. My visit to Kallidai is overdue. Planning to visit by December 2010 (Winter vacation). Once again my profound thanks for your reply. With best regards. R Sambamurthy

Hi, I am raghu

I was in Kallidai for a while. I was buying and selling appalams from Anjaneya appalam, Sannathi theru. Nice place to be.

clakshminarayanan :HI iam laxmanan from kandappapuram st. I am working as a deputy manger in STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR at ashok nagar chennai.Do u remember me. MY phone no is 09962017967

Hai laxman. If I am right you are related to Chidambarakrishnan and your house is next to Type Sir.I am I right. I am VL (nicely called in Kallidai by all) hailing from Sannadhi Street ( my father Mani Iyer and grandfather samayal Appasami Iyer who is very famous and still remembered by his RASAM)

r krishnamurthi (vengacham) :iam krishnamurthi alias vengacham from ekambarapuram st. kallidai son of kattukuthagai ramalingam iyer i passed out of tilak vidyalya in 1964 and am settled in kolkata i wish and pray that iam able to go back and settlemy last years in kallidai we still retain our ancestral house i will be visiting kallidai again during nextsastha preethi

Hai venkacham. I hope you can remember Cycle kadai Jayaraman from Mudalipuram and Ayyapaswami (village munisif) in our days of mudaliappapuram and I can remember some memories if u give little more tough. One Vengacham studied with me in Tilak Vidyala from No.1 Mudaliappapuram and MUFAT SANKARAN (son of MUFAT NArayanan) are very famous in my early days life in Kallidai in 1970s.

lakshminarayanan :

lakshminarayanan :

r krishnamurthi (vengacham) :iam krishnamurthi alias vengacham from ekambarapuram st. kallidai son of kattukuthagai ramalingam iyer i passed out of tilak vidyalya in 1964 and am settled in kolkata i wish and pray that iam able to go back and settlemy last years in kallidai we still retain our ancestral house i will be visiting kallidai again during nextsastha preethi

Hai venkacham. I hope you can remember Cycle kadai Jayaraman from Mudalipuram and Ayyapaswami (village munisif) in our days of mudaliappapuram and I can remember some memories if u give little more touch. One Vengacham studied with me in Tilak Vidyala from No.1 Mudaliappapuram and BUFAT SANKARAN (son of BUFAT NArayanan) are very famous in my early days life in Kallidai in 1970s.

I take the liberty of adding some inputs. It is Buffet Sankaran (drawn from Buffet Lunch). I owe my gratitude to Cycle Kadai Jayaraman as he donated me a Vadaseri Dhoti (In those days Vadaseri Dhoti was famous) in my struggling days to make both ends meet. If I am correct this philonthropist is married to Sattu Iyer’s daughter. From this pages, I rekindle my nostalgic feelings of bygone days of life and struggle in Kallidaikurichi. – R Sambamurthy -

Hello All,
Nice and glad to see all the blogs which speaks what a great pleasure and experience our native place has given us. I just cannot forget those days I lived there though it was only few years. I did study in Tilak Vidhyalaya where Mr. Dakshina Moorthy, Mr. Ramalingam, Mr. Shunmuga Pondy who were the primary teachers at that time and cannot forget the great assistance and support they gave us. Without their support and appreciation, there is no way I could have become better and better. Thanks and many thanks to whereever they are.

Anyone who thinks they can recognise me, reply to me. Let me test my memory too.

Love you all wonderful bloggers who love their native place like their eyes.

Prabha.

The households in different streets veigh with one another to perform sasthapreethi and other celebrations. A bath in the thambrabarabi is worth all the trouble reaching kallidai. There are number of families these days who can deliver iyer sappadu at home.

Waiting at the bus stand near panchayat office is a good pass time. Listeneing to children reciting their home work in the evening is a unique experience.The vaikal running at the backyard is a good water body though it is getting dumped with sewege and the water is polluted.

Hai guys i dontno who are you. I am missed kallidaikurichi because i am residing at vadakku pattanainarpuram street at the time of 1974 -1981.thank you for recalling the sweet memory. bue

hi i am a.subramanian from KIC 11 years SSLC from TVHS 1976
& PUC from MDTHC, BSc from SPKC & I wants to
contact my school mate namely Piramanayagam, sunderrajan vadivelu
and others.this pg gives me a gr8 pleasure. my e-mail id is
agasthian2000@gmail.com. presently i am in HCC, in MUMBAI.
a.subramanian

இங்க எல்லாருமே ஏன் ஆங்கிலத்தில் பேசியிருக்கீங்க. நாமல்லாம் தமிழங்கதானே. நானும் கல்லிடைக்காரிதான். லஷ்மீபதி கோவில் பக்கம் உள்ள தெற்குமாடத்தெருவில்
இருந்தேன். சந்த்ரா அப்பளாம் டிப்போ வீட்டுப்பெண்.யாருக்காவது அடையாளம் தெரியுதா?
தெரிந்தால் பதில் கொடுங்க.

echumi :நானும் கல்லிடைக்குறிச்சிக்காரிதான். என் ஃப்ரெண்ட் களைத்தேடுகிரேன். லஷ்மிபதி கோவில்தெற்குமாடதெருவில் இருந்த சந்த்ரா அப்பளாம் டிப்போ வீட்டுப்பெண். ஆர் லஷ்மிஅப்போதைய பேயர். ஸ்னேகிதிகள் சுருக்கமா ஆர் என்றுதான் கூப்பிடுவார்கள்.சமையல்காரார் கைலாசம் வடக்குமாடத்தெருவில் இருந்தார். அவர் மருமாள் ஜெயம், சீதா,ராதா, குத்துக்கல்தெரு திரிபுரம், வீரப்புரம் தெருவில் ருக்கு, சுசீலா, ரேவதி எல்லாரும்1960-களில் ஃப்ரெண்டா இருந்தோம். தொந்திலாத்தெரு மணி டாகடர் பொண்ணு கோமாவும்ஃப்ரெண்ட்தான்.இதில் ரேவெதி ஸ்ரீரங்கத்தில் பெரிய டாட்டியஸ்கூல் நடத்துவதாக குமுதம்ஸ்னேகிதி மூலமாகத்தெரிந்து கொண்டேன். லெட்டரும் அனுப்பினேன். என்னை நினைவில்லை போல இருக்கு. பதிலே அனுப்பலை. இந்தப்பகுதி பார்க்கும் ஸ்னேகிதிகள் யாராவது என்னை ஞாபகம் வைத்திருந்தால் தொடர்பு கொள்ளவும். இப்போது நான் மிம்பையில் இருக்கேன்.

hI, I AM LAKSHMINARAYANAN (RAJA) WAS IN KALLIDAI eKKAMBARAPURAM STREE NO:47,CHINNAMBI’S SON.
HAPPY TO READ ABOVE QUOTES.STUDIED UPTO 9TH TILAK VIDYALAYA. nOW IN MUMBAI DOMBIVLI.
MY EMAIL ID IS rajagln68@gmail.com phone 9819757049

Hi All
I am excited to read the blog and the comments from my fellow kallidians.
It almost made me feel that I am in the thinnai of kallidai agraharams.
I am the son of Rengubai & grandson of ramchandra rao, janaki bai.
I am visiting kallidai atleast once in 2 years..and every time i visit, i am lost
in the old memories..! Nice 2 see all of you. My email id is raghavendranchats@gmail.com

Any one know Thena Keena family or Chinnkkomu family of Kandappapuram street or Meenakshi/radhakrishnaiyer? Ranganathan

P jayapal :Hi Mr Sambamurthy, I am Jayapal, passed out of tilak vidyalaya in 1971. three years after you had left the scool. May be my cousins were your batch mates. The great NVS was my class teacher and taught English too. his daughter Muthulakshmi ( I heard She is settled in kallidaikurichi) was my class mate. one of my nephew Dr. Gnanasekaran has his clinic in Veerappapuram St. THe great stalwards AVK,Nilakandan sir used to teach me. My last visit to Kallidai was in 1980. After that I colud not visit for various reasons.Now I am in Chennai. Basically I am a Indian Naval Officer at present posted with Army, heading an organisation in Chennai. My mobile -9445391208. mail id —jayapal_pj82@yahoo.com. thanx. Cmde P Jayapal

Dear Commodore P Jayapal
Thanks for bringing back the memories. I faintly remember One Shri Dhanraj Pal was studying with me in 1968 batch. He used to reside near the church on the way to Vairavi Kulam. I am not sure whether he is related to you. The names of the teachers you mentioned are the “Gems” of the Society. Even today, I tried to follow the message and foot-prints they left in the Society, which will remain indelible for ever. I have had close interaction with Naval Officers. In fact I was Personal Secretary to Commodore Sree Kumar, Director (Shipbuilding) Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited. I am left with 28 days servie to superannuate on 31 Jul 2011 on completion of 60 years
With blessings and once again thank you for the ‘flash back” R Sambamurthy

Namaskarams, I am Lakshmi Varaha Harihara Putran Grandson of Late Laksham Vadhyar and Late Chellam Iyer of Tonthivillagam Street. I am named after the God Sri, Lakshmi Varahan in sannathi Theru. Though nobody left except my Periappa Late Samu Vadhyar’s son still lives in Thonthivilagam Street and also my periappa’s daughter Shanti daughter in law of Late Kiccha of Appala Kadai and wife of Shree Sahasarnaman fondly called as Kannan. My Periappa’s son is also a well known vadhyar called as Laksham. It still remember those days when we were small and went with my late father the Vaikkal, Kizakku Athangarai, Merku Athangarai , pathinettam perukku having means on the banks of athangarai. Oh!!!!!!!! it is very much impossible to forget those days. Moreover the appalams (ulundhu appalam, arishi appalam) nobody can match the taste in the whole world. Then the tirunelveli halwa………Frankly speaking I have never tasted a better stuff than this……. I wish every year I go there and enjoy the serene beauty of the vayals, attangari, Tundi vinayagar Temple, Lakshmi Varaha Swamy Temple etc. Thanks we shall meet again……….. Kallidaikuruchi Chellam Laksham (Ambi), Thonthivilagam Street.

Dear Sir
Its nice to have memories of lots of KIC’s. we have the perumal kovil samprokhshanam and Sastha Preethi coming up hope to catch u all soon. iam chandru grandson of ramasundaram iyer – Addisons in kandappapuram st, we are forming a venture to promote and preserve Kallidai pl send in your suggestions to my id racmaa@yahoo.com and my no is 8056033706. i request all of the persons to kindly participate in the venture to make Kallidai famous again. u can write your exp in kallidai.in also

Kallidaikurichy a green village surrounded with paddy fields. I came from North Mada street near lakshmipathi Koil pattar house. I am now settled at Coimbatore. I remember my school days at Kallidai. Very calm place to settle at retired life. Even all streets are very narrow, there is no traffic jam., people love one another, cheap living, no tension life. What a great village life?. I like to visit Kallidai during Perumal Koil festival.

HAI ,

I chanced upon this blog and happy to hear so much from my place kallidai.

I am hari hara subramanian SASTHA VADIYAR grandson No 36 VARAHAPURAM St. I am settled in CHEMBUR. Passed out from TILAK VIDYALAYA 1978 passed I am on the way to KALLIDAI today 3rd FEB will be visiting SARAVADIYAR thai FRIDAY. Hope to catch you all soon.