Muthiah's Blackmore Marathon Run
Dear
Nagarathars
I am
proud to announce that our member Muthiah Ramanathan of Nachiyapuram
residing at Pendlehhill represented our community in Harbour Bridge
run and completed the running of 9.7 km in one hour. By this Muthiah
has added another stone to the crown of our Sangam that we have
members interested to contribute to Australian Community Charity.
Important to note that he is one among the very few Indian Community
participants in this event. It is not a competition event. This is
an event organized by Aussie communities as a fund raising program
with the support of NSW state Government.
I
appreciate Muthiah Ramanathan.s effort in this event. I am confident
that personalities like Muthiah Ramanathan are going to be the role
model for our young Australian Nagarathars to get involved Sports
related Charity events.
Muthiah- Keep up the sprit and train people like me and young
Australian Nagarathars to participate in sports related charity
event.
Source: Annamalai Meenakshi Sundaram, Sydney
International
Convention of
Nagarathars,
Malaysia
Malaysian
Nagarathar Sangam organizing "International Convention of
Nagarathars" in conjunction with their Golden Jubilee Celebration at
Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 7 -9 December 2007. Click
the following link to download the Registration form and
Brochure.
Registration
Form: Registration Form
Convention
Brochure: Brochure
Source:
Sorna Nachiappan,
Adelaide
Clean
Up
Australia Day
Ten
Nagarathar Sangam
Australia members
participated in the nation’s largest community based environmental
event, Clean Up Australia Day on 4th of March 2007. Members
assembled at 7.30 am near the Westmead Entrance of
Parramatta
Park and
registered at the Clean Up site of Tharuna Youth Group. They then
set off to Clean Up Salters Field creek for the next 3 hours and
removed all non-degradable debris to make it a cleaner and healthier
place for the park visitors.
Participants: Mr.
Annamalai Meenakshi Sundaram, Mrs. Shanthi Annamalai, Miss. Divya
Annamalai, Mr. Subramaniyan Alagappan, Mr. Subramaniam Shanmugham,
Mr. Muthiah Ramanathan, Mr. Sambantham Subramaniam, Mrs. Geetha
Sambantham, Mr. Palaniappan Ramanathan and Mr. Ramanathan
Ramanathan
Click here to see the photos taken at Clean
Up Day.
Source:
Mr. Palaniappn Ramanathan,
Sydney
Mr.
Muthu Palaniappan JP
One of
our senior members Mr.
Muthu Palaniappan has recently been appointed as Justice of
the Peace (JP) by Attorney Generals department of NSW. So if any of
our New South Wales Nagarathars would like to Attest and Certify
documents, take oaths, affidavit, annexure, Affirmation statutory
documents and people with special needs contact him on his home
phone number 02-9764 1432.
Nagarathar
Sangam congratulates him for this achievement.
To
know more details about JP, you could contact
The
Justice of the Peace Section
Community Relations division
NSW Attorney Generals
Department
GPO Box 6, Sydney NSW 2001
Telephone :( 02) 9228
7487
Or
Visit www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au website
Source:
Mr. Muthu Palaniappn,
Sydney
Acting
as Aachies
Click here to see a photo in which Alagu
Annamalai and Nachal Alagappan acting as Chettinattu Aachis in a
play at the Annual function of Balar Malar Tamil Schools in
Sydney.
Source: Alagappan Muthukaruppan,
Sydney
Mr.
S. Muthiah’s lecture on “The Chettiar Heritage”
Mr. S.
Muthiah, a Journalist and Historian from Chennai, gave a lecture
about “The Chettiar Heritage” at Community Center,
Carobran Drive,
Vermont South,
Melbourne on 22nd March 2006. About
20 to 25 people participated from Chettiar, Indolankan and Tamil
community.
He
is also author of “The
Chettiar Heritage” book. Visit this link to know
more about this book.
Excerpt
of his Speech:
He
covered Chettiar’s Historical background from Chola’s period to
Pandia’s to British to 60’s to 90’s. He has highlighted that
Chettiars didn’t start off as Money Lenders but as Traders, who can
go way off in those days across the seas for trading and then how
they became money lenders later.
How this
money lending collapsed in other countries and deviated to other
areas such as study, etc. Speech covered the 9 temples, our villages
and population. Presentation shows how our community liked the
architecture buildings and plans, supported by
photographs.
He
finished with plight of modern day Chettiars and
trends.
Overall, it
was a very interesting overview of Chettiar’s rich
heritage.
Visit this link to know
more about Mr. S. Muthiah.
Source:
Mr. Subramanian Ramalingam,
Melbourne
Sad
demise of Mr. L. Natesan Chettiar
Nagarathar
Sangam of
Australia is sad to
report the death of Mr. L.
Natesan Chettiar of Kothamangalam, who passed away on 30th
January 2006.
He
was proud father of Dr. Lakshmanan Natesan,
Adelaide and Mr. Narayanan Natesan,
Sydney.
Click here to view an obituary
published in Mylapore
Times, written by Miss. Lakshmi Narayanan, Sydney, who is
granddaughter of Mr. L. Natesan Chettiar.
Source:
Narayanan Natesan,
Sydney
Mr.
Ravi Tamilvanan's
Australia
Visit
Recently
Mr. Ravi Tamilvanan, from Manimekalai publication, visited
Australia and traveled
around major cities like Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne to promote
and exhibit his books.
Our
President Mr. Annamalai Sundaram and Treasurer Mr. Chinna Nachiappan
met him during his visit to
Sydney at
Benalong
Park, Pendle Hill on 26th
January 2006.
Visit
this link to know
more about Mr. Ravi Tamilvanan.
Source:
Annamalai
Sundaram.
