April 26, 2008 by Soma.

Sarvathri Tamil New Year Program

Saturday, April 26, 2008
Tallahassee, FL 32310

We celebrated Sarvathari Tamil New Year as Chithirai Sirappu Vizah (Chithirai Special Function). About 70 adults and children from Tamil families attended the cultural program and the potluck dinner that followed it.

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April 13, 2008 by Soma.

Sarvathari Tamil New Year Beginning

22nd year in the 60 year cycle

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Tallahassee, FL 32317

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January 14, 2008 by Soma.

Bogi or Boghi Festival

Monday, January 14, 2008

Tallahassee, FL 32317

We started to clean our house on Sunday in order to prepare for the Bogi and Pongal festivals that are on Monday, January 14, and 15, 2008 respectively. Since this was the second week after we reached US from our vacation to India, it gave another reason to throw away old items and clean the house.

Historically the day before and the day of Bogi we cleaned our house at Vedaraniam and occasionally even white-washed it during that week. Usual cleaning meant removing cob-web (ottadai adipathu), deep sweeping the brick floors, then washing it with plenty of well water. Going up the attic and throwing away old magazines, newspapers, and other stuff.

So we more or less did the same thing except there were not that many cob-webs to clean out. We collected old clothes for donation, we did lots of laundry, we swept and moped the wooden floor and tiles at our home. We also did pooja with VTS doing the aarathi with incense stick. Then we ate sweet pongal and vadai.

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September 22, 2007 by Soma.

Natyanjali by Smt Padmaja Kelam’s Troupe

Moore Auditorium, Tallahassee, FL 32306

Saturday, September 22, 2007 ; 4:40-6:30 PM

Srimathi Padmaja Kelam from Atlanta and her students from Kalaivani Dance and Music Academy gave an enthralling dance performance that combined the classical and contemporary dance styles.

About nine dancers entertained the crowd of hundred Tallahassee audience with eight separate pieces of performance. There were two vernums one of which was 25 minutes long performed by two artists. There were two fusion entries and others were classical dance performances. Two artists gave individual dance performance as well.

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July 4, 2007 by Soma.

We saw Rajinikanth’s recent movie, “Shivaji -The BOSS” today at Movies 8 Theater. Some of our friends brought the movie for a special screening. We all enjoyed the movie. There were about 100-120 people at the special screening.

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