Book Reviews@HINDU

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Regarding the book reveiws, thank you for posting the

same. In this hi-tech, fast moving world, it's really

good to know such books are still alive (and atleast

some information about them) - It's sad to know that

all of the 21 volumes of Sankara's works are

out-of-print and out-of-press (ref. to those made by

Vani-Vilas). Other not-so-authoritative editions are

ofcourse in print.

 

The once jubilant VaniVilas Press, Srirangam is now

defunct. It was one of the premier institutions of the

yester years known of it's impecable quality (even if

you read the book 100 times, you would NEVER find a

SINGLE mistake!). Such was it's reputation, for over

70 golden years. But when I went to the press in

1998-99, I was horrified to see, nothing but a huge

pile of decaying books, rusted machines! Ofcourse

there are press' like Vanathi, LIFCO etc. but it's

near impossible that such rare classical works will be

on press again.

 

I have begun a project to collecting information about

all books on Lord Muruga, Murugan Bhakti and related

subjects in a database. The aim will be to incorporate

almost all books, with related ISBN, publisher, price

etc. which will be useful to people who want to

purchase the book, or want information regarding it.

 

This sounds pretty enormous, but i suppose once it

reaches a good size, it will be extremely useful for

both readers aswell as publishers. Readers can find

the information/book they want, and publishers can use

this database to reach the readers.

 

Although such a huge project calls for advanced

object-oriented, relational database systems, in my

opinion such implementation can wait until a sizeable

amount of books' collection is available (to test and

quantify/qualify a system).

 

In the meanwhile, a rudimentary database has been

setup at the database post -

dhandapani/database?method=reportRows & tbl=2

 

Please feel free to add books you know of (you need

not own them), if you know books related to the

subject, please log in (whenever you find time) and

just upload an entry in the database.

 

Regarding the book reviews, I will try to add them, in

the meanwhile, if you get time please add them. Thank

you.

 

If you have RealPlayer, you can watch three clips from

Kandan Karunai from http://sirkali.org/gaanam.html.

 

Regarding the songs - Sound Tracks of Kandan Karunai

can be listened to online at

http://www.musicindiaonline.com/l/26/s/movie_name.4726/

 

But the database does not seem to have the song you

requested.

 

Probably you best shot is an HMV Audio Casstte (?).

 

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