April 14, 2010 by Soma.

இனிய புத்தாண்டு வாழ்த்துக்கள்

விக்ருதி வருடம்

புதன் கிழமை, சித்திரை 1, 2010

தலகாசி, அ.ஐ.நா.

தமிழன்பர்கள் அனைவருக்கும் எங்கள் இனிய புத்தாண்டு வாழ்த்துக்கள். வருகிற சனிக்கிழமை நாங்கள் தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு விழா கொண்டாட இருக்கிறோம். வருக! வருகவே!

-சோமசுந்தரம் குடும்பம்

Happy Tamil New Year

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Tallahassee, FL 32317

We wish all Tamil well-wishers a Happy Tamil New Year. We will be celebrating the New Year this Saturday, April 17, 2010 at Recreation Hall, Alumni Village, Tallahassee, FL 32310. We welcome you to the festivities where we plan to stage children’s Tamil Drama, stand-up Tamil comedy routines, poetry recitation in Tamil and other activities. Please check the following links for more details:

• Tallahassee Tamil Sangam

• Somasundaram’s Tamil Pages

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April 1, 2010 by Soma.

National Census Day 2010

Thursday, April 01, 2010

 Tallahassee, FL 32301

Today is the National Census Day (Thursday, April 01, 2010), the day we all are expected to return the completed Census form. Unfortunately, as of today the return-rate (the percentage people returing their form) remains low, around 42-45% for Tallahassee and Leon County. This rate is lower than the national average and lower than other cities and counties in the State of FL.

 A public service announcement will air sometime starting today to encourage everyone to send in their forms.

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March 27, 2010 by Soma.

42nd Springtime Tallahassee Parade

Saturday, March 27, 2010; 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Tallahassee, Florida, USA

Today we participated in the 42nd Springtime Tallahassee Parade. Our participationin the Springtime Tallahassee parade for the third year in a row was  as a partner of Asian Coalition of Tallahassee. India Associaiton of Tallahassee members both adults and children, all clad in Indian attire,  and other members of the Indian community enthusiastically joined us as early as 8:00 AM. Then many members of ACT joined the group. In all we had about 70-80 people ready when the parade started at 10:30 AM. We were assigned slot number 103. We followed a local high school band. We walked the parade route for about 1.25 mile from the intersection of Third Avenue and North Monroe Street via Mahan Drive to all the way to Gaines Street and South Monroe Street intersection. By the time the parade ended it was about 12:15 PM.

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March 7, 2010 by Soma.

Manickkam Drama PracticeSunday, March 07, 2010; 5:00 to 6:00 PMTallahassee, FL 32317We began practicing for Manickkam Mattinaan (மாணிக்கம் மாட்டினான் )  comedy Tamil drama at home. We had about six kids.

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January 23, 2010 by Soma.

Pongal Celebration

Saturday, January 23, 2010

ARH, Tallahassee, FL 32306

We celebrated Pongal Festival this evening.

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January 23, 2010 by Soma.

2010 Annual General Body Meeting

India Association of Tallahassee

Saturday, Jan 23, 2010, 2:00 - 3:30 PM

Leon Co Public Library

Tallahassee, FL 32306

The 2009-10 Annual General Body Meeting of the India Association of Tallahassee (IATLH) was held earlier today along with the Indian Republic Day Celebrations. About two dozen families attended the program.I officially became the President of IATLH for the calendar years 2010 and 2011. My team (four more people in addition to me) took over the official Executive Committee’s responsibility from the previous team. We pledged to work to make the Association more relevant to the members.A lively discussion of Association’s activities and events followed. Many people spoke about how to expand the membership.

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November 14, 2009 by Soma.

Cultural Glimpses of India5 PM at Chiles High School AuditoriumTallahassee, FL 32312Today is the day of the annual premier event of India Association of Tallahassee. We will have about 24 programs. There will be an intermission after about 16 items. Snacks will be sold.See you all there!

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November 13, 2009 by Soma.

2009 Glimpses Preparations

Friday, November 13, 2009; 4:00-7:00 PM

Chiles High School Auditorium

Tallahassee, FL 32312

 Today EC of IATLH was at Chiles High School auditorium preparing for tomorrow’s 12 Annual Glimpses of India Celebration. We had six to eight group rehearsing tonight and four group rehearing early tomorrow morning.The program itself tomorrow afternoon at 5 PM.

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November 1, 2009 by Soma.

Hinduism and personal view

Private Church Speaker

Sunday, November 1, 2009, 6 PM

I was invited to speak about what Hinduism means to me personally to a private church gathering of people who were interested in other religions of the world. We all (about 8 people) met at a private residence and spoke for about an hour.

I started the speech by playing a musical rendition of the Gujarati prayer song (favorite of Mahatma Gandhiji) “Vaishnava Jana Tho“ and spoke about my personal practices and views of Hinduism in general and how does it affects me here in the USA.

Later I concluded the speech with the Aavuyaiyar’s Invocation to God “கடவுள் வாழ்த்து - பாலும் தெளிதேனும்” . Following the song we had Q and A session for about 15 minutes. We ate some cookies and I departed home with a feeling that I was able to listen to people of other faith while telling about what I follow.

Thanks to the person who made this possible.

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October 24, 2009 by Soma.

Aadhavan Movie | ஆதவன் தமிழ் படம்

Movies 8 Sharer Road

Saturday, October 24, 2009 8 PM

Cast:  Surya, Nayanthara, Vadivelu, and Sarojadevi 
Direction : K.S. Ravikumar | Music : Harish Jeyaraj

Due to concerted efforts of good folks in Tallahassee, we were able to go Aadhavan Tamil movie at Movies 8 on a Saturday night. It was a okay movie, long, melodramatic, and with expected ending. But, remember, we are talking about a vanilla Tamil movie. Cost of the tickets for adult was $10 and children $5.

Anyway, we enjoyed it thanks to some entrepreneurial folks in Tallahassee. Keep up the good work.

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