NANAL Volume 13, issue 1
NORTH AMERICAN NAGARATHAR NEWSLETTER நாணல்
March 2012 INS IDE THI S I S SUE President’s Letter Business & Finance Cover Story Announcements Regional Digest Culture & Religion Home & Food Health & Yoga Children & Youth Committee Reports 2 4 6 12 16 30 36 40 42 46
Herbs of Healthy Cooking by Alagu Vairavan on Page 32
Tamil Short Story—ஆய டு by SP. VR. Subbiah
வீ on Page 34
Power of Being a Bilingual Individual by Madhavan Thiyagarajan on Page 35
Sisterhood—A Bond not found in Chemistry by Priya Chidambaram on Page 43
Youth Contest on Page 44
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Yes, we have indeed made a striking difference in the way our newsletter-cum- magazine is being composed, edited, published, delivered, and read. Overall, you welcomed the changes enthusiastically, adapted to the new style rapidly, and gave us a nod overwhelmingly. In short, you were content with the content that we bring right to your homes!
Pal and I take this moment to sincerely thank you for the concerted support that you extended to us during this entire period.
On this final issue of the NANAL from our team, we are wrapping our theme on அன்றும் இன்றும் with “Nagarathars—A Journey through Time”. Purnima Palaniyandi and Annamalai Natarajan have worked closely together, consulted many books written on Nagarathars, and gone all the way back to the roots of our origins. They have synthesized the then lifestyle, culture, and traditions with the current era, and have come up with a series of recommendations that this
T
ime has come for us to say good bye to all of you and good luck to the
new unified California team that will be shouldering the responsibilities of the NANAL publication from the next issue forward.
We had a fantastic two year term with the NANAL. During this period, as per our EC’s slogan of “Taking the NSNA to the Next Level...”, we moved the bars of this very publication several notches up.
Dear Readers,
FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK ... Suku Sukumar & Pal Kathiresan Greater New York Region
generation could do to preserve our heritage. Their dream of conserving what is left of our culture in something like ‘Chettinad Museum’ is—in our opinion— very much like the museum for Jewish or American-Indians in the United States.
At the regional level, there are a number of changes of leadership and new representatives/secretaries have assumed the responsibility. Don’t forget to get a glimpse of your new representative on the inside back cover of this NANAL.
Our involvement with our NANAL publication in general and cover stories in particular, have made us read blogs and books on Nagarathars, ask intriguing questions to our ayyas appathas, and aayas, and discuss and exchange ideas on how to preserve the culture for future generations. In the process, we learned more about our identities, our culture, and the necessity of getting even more involved with the society to preserve our rich past and present.
Lately, we have been seriously thinking of bringing the ‘Chettinad Museum’ to reality and toward that goal, we are starting an initiative for creating a virtual museum first. If you are interested in contributing to this social initiative, please connect with us at this email address:
suku.planner@
yahoo.com.
Happy Reading!
Good Bye and Signing Off, Suku & Pal
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