The Singapore Dakshina Bharatha Brahmana Sabha 2, JALAN TENGGIRI, SINGAPORE 428248 sdbbs@hotmail.com Email: Web: http://sdbbs.tripod.com Ref No: 10/00-01 Dated: 11 Jan 2001 For circulation to members only 1. HINDU / TAMIL CALENDAR VIKRAMA VARUSHAM THAI / MAKARA MAASYA THAI DAY DATE EVENT 1 SUNDAY 14-01-2001 PONGAL PANDIGAI / UTTARAYANA PUNYAKALAM 2 MONDAY 15-01-2001 KANU MATTU PONGAL 7 SATURDAY 20-10-2001 SARVA EKADASI 8 SUNDAY 21-01-2001 PRADOSHAM 9 MONDAY 22-01-2001 MASA SIVARATHIRI 11 WEDNESDAY 24-01-2001 THAI AMAVASYA 15 SUNDAY 28-01-2001 CHATURTHI VRATAM 17 TUESDAY 30-01-2001 SHASHTI VRATAM 18 WEDNESDAY 31-01-2001 RATHA SAPTAMI 20 FRIDAY 02-02-2001 KRITHIGAI VRATAM 22 SUNDAY 04-02-2001 SARVA BHIMA EKADASI 24 TUESDAY 06-02-2001 PRADOSHAM 25 WEDNESDAY 07-02-2001 POURNAMI VRATAM / AKAMAVAI / THAI POOSAM 29 SUNDAY 11-02-2001 SANKATAHARA CHATURTHI SDBBS Wishes All Members and their families A VERY HAPPY PONGAL 1
VEDA & SLOKA CLASSES COME & JOIN OUR VEDA & SLOKA CLASSES For the benefit of members we are conducting Veda & Sloka classes at the following members houses at various districts: DAYS TIME RESIDENCE OF TOPIC Wednesdays 7.30 8.30pm Sri D. Ramesh Devi Blk 112 #05-146 Mahadmiyam Bukit Batok West Ave 6 Veda class Tel: 565-4506 Wednesdays 7.30 8.30pm Sri R Venkateshwaran Veda Class Blk 125 #09-405 Pasir Ris Street 11 Tel: 583-3544 Thursdays 7.30 8.30pm Sri V.S. Gururajan Veda class Blk 572 #04-3375 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3 Tel: 454-0607 Tuesdays/ 7.30-8.30pm Sri Muralidhara Sastrigal Veda class Saturdays 3.30-5.00pm Blk 668 #09-04 Chander Road Tel: 297-8134 2 nd & 4 th 3 4.30 pm Sri G Srinivasan Sloka class Sundays 16 Jalan Tamban Tel: 346-1850 2. NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following ordinary members to the Sabha. 1 Sri Prasad Srinivasan (OP-18) 2 Dr. Poornima K.A. (OP-19) Blk 625 #02-115 #06-64 Queensway Towers Yishun Street 61 Alexandra Road Singapore 760625 Singapore 149053 Tel: 756-7564 Tel: 476-8344 3 Sri Ekambaram Baskaran (OE-05) 4 Sri Gopalakrishnan R (OG-44) #05-03 Lincolnsvale Blk 771 #14-356 22 Surrey Road Pasir Ris Street 71 Singapore 307755 Singapore 510771 Tel: 354-2468 Tel: 584-2415 5 Sri Hari Subramanian (OH-15) 6 Sri Kothandaraman S (OK-64) 5-16-22 Daizawa. Setagaya-ku 200 Jalan Sultan Tokyo 155-0032 #25-04 Textile Centre Apartments Japan Singapore 199018 Tel: 81-3-3419-3034 Tel: 295-5669 7 Sri Kripesh Vaidyanathan (OK-65) 8 Sri Murthy N.S. (OM-34) Blk 428 #10-434 4 West Coast Drive Clementi Avenue 3 #02-115 Singapore 120428 Singapore 127959 Tel: 773-8497 Tel: 774-6690 2
9 Capt J Mohan (OM-47) 10 Sri Raman K Y (OR-112) 107 Spottiswoode Park Road 89A Hindoo Road Singapore 080107 Singapore 205125 Tel: 224-9149 Tel: 299-2144 11 Sri Ranganathan Seshadri (OR-169) 12 Sri Subramanaian Venkat (OS-228) 370B Alexandra Road Blk 271 #02-121 #04-02 Anchorage Tampines Street 21 Singapore 159955 Singapore 520271 Tel: 472-1192 Tel: 782-1303 13 Sri Sukumaran R (OS-229) 14 Sri Subba Rao V (OS-230) Blk 143 #12-349 Blk 514 #11-540 Serangoon North Ave 1 Bukit Batok Street 52 Singaproe 550143 Singapore 650514 Tel: 383-4992 Tel: 564-4420 15 Sri Sriram A (OS-231) 16 Sri Sunder Mani (OS-232) Blk 175 #06-169 Blk 390 #02-1064 Bishan Street 13 Yishun Avenue 6 Singapore 570175 Singapore 760390 Tel: 353-3340 Tel: 759-0432 17 Sri Subramanian S.S. (OS-233) 18 Sri Venkataraman R (OV-98) Blk 602 #09-17 Blk 177 #10-243 Clementi West Street 1 Bukit Batok West Avenue 8 Singapore 120602 Singapore 650177 Tel: 773-4997 Tel: 9649-9074 19 Sri Varadarajan T R (OV-99) 20 Sri Viswanathan G (OV-100) Blk 279 #03-316 Blk 950 #04-631 Yishun Street 22 Jurong West Street 91 Singapore 760279 Singapore 640950 Tel: 758-2732 Tel: 793-4711 21 Sri Viswanadham N (OV-101) Block F #03-06 107 Clementi Road Singapore Tel: 874-7455 3. CHANGE OF ADDRESSES & TELEPHONE NUMBERS 1 Sri Shiva V Iyer (OS-149) 2. Sri Sriram Krishnaswami (OS-218) Address: No change #14-03 Bukit View Condominium Tel: 583-6951 144 Upper Bukit Timah Road Singapore 588177 Tel: 463-1434 3 Sri Venkat Iyer (OV-47) 4 Sri Maheshwar P (OM-41) Blk 139 Serangoon Avenue 3 Blk 101 #07-30 #05-08 Springbloom Bukit Batok West Avenue 6 Singapore 556119 Singapore 650101 Tel: 288-3610 Tel: 897-1786 5 Sri Ramesh V Subramaniam (OR-84) 6 Sri Sahasranamam Sankaran (OS-181) 76 Seabreeze Avenue C/o Unilever Arabia Singapore 487581 Al-Shah District, No 4 Malik Road Tel: 786-0571 P.O.Box 22800, Jeddah 21416 Saudi Arabia 3
7 Dr Sriram Shankar (OS-136) 8 Sri Sriraman R (OS-171) 27 Greenleaf Avenue Blk 257 #11-431 Singapore 279607 Jurong East Street 24 Tel: 467-5829 Singapore 600257 Tel: 897-3292 4. FORTHCOMING EVENTS 4.1 POURNAMI VRATAM WEDNESDAY 7 th FEB 2001 Pournami Pooja (Poosam Nakshathiram) on Wednesday 7 TH Feb 2001 is being hosted by a group of Well wishers and pooja will be held at the Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple, Ceylon Road. Programme is as follows: 7.15 pm Veda Parayanam 7.40 pm Lalitha Sahasranama Archanai/Lakshmi Ashtothram 8.30 pm Deeparadhanai 8.40 pm Devotional songs 9.00 pm Prasadam distribution This month Pournami falls on Poosam Nakshathiram. Interested persons for sankalpam may contact Sri P S Ramanathan Tel: 442-7841. 4.2. THAI VELLI POOJAS Thai Velli Pooja will be hosted by the following members at their residences on the respective days: Pooja will commence at 7.30pm with the recitation of Lalitha Sahasranama Archanai followed by devotional songs and bhajans. Deeparadhanai will be held at 8.45pm and prasadam will be distributed thereafter. DATE AT THE RESIDENCE OF 19 th Jan Smt & Dr K Mahadevan Iyer 2001 Blk 723 #24-180 Clementi West St 2 Tel: 872-1424 26 th Jan Booking for pooja for this date is still available 2001 Members wishing to host the pooja may contact Sri S Pattabiraman Tel: 289-7645 2 nd Feb Smt & Sri R Sankar (LS-05) 2001 14 Jalan Binchang Tel: 353-1949 9 th Feb Booking for pooja for this date is still available 2001 Members wishing to host the pooja may contact Sri S Pattabiraman (289-7645) 5. ANNOUNCEMENT DUO RECITAL A Jugal Bandhi (duo recital) of Sitar (Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan) and Violin (Lalgudi GJR Krishnan) will be held on Sunday 21 st Jan 2001 at 7.30 pm at the DBS Auditorium, Shenton Way. For Tickets at $50, 20 and 15 contact 9665-6084, 346-1850, 4755-244 or it can be obtained at the door. 4
6. REMINDER - SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR YEAR 2001 Ordinary membership fees for the year 2001 fell due on 1 st Jan 2001 and we request members The who have still not paid their subscriptions to do so immediately. The applicable rates are as follows: For members residing in Singapore / Malaysia For members residing in other countries S$50.00 S$70.00 Please note that the subscription is on a calendar basis and all ordinary members are requested to send in their subscription cheques for the year 2001 by 1 st Jan 2001. Cheques should be made payable to SINGAPORE DAKSHINA BHARATHA BRAHMANA SABHA and sent to No 2 Jalan Tenggiri, Singapore 428248. The rates for Life Membership is as follows: For members residing in Singapore/Malaysia S$ 750.00 For members residing in other countries S$1,000.00 Members are reminded that the address booklet for the year 2001 will only include the names of the members who are current in their subscription for year 2001. Hence please send in your subscription cheques as early as possible to ensure that your name is included in the booklet. Please also let us know if there is any change in your residential addresses. We would also like to include the email addresses of members in the new booklet. So those of you who wish to have the same included kindly let us have the same by 28 th Feb 2001. Email your addresses to kasyap@pacific.net.sg 7. CIRCULARS Sabha has once again decided to try sending the monthly newsletters and other information to members by email whenever possible. This is to reduce the cost of paper and postage as the amounts spent on this could be better utilized, in view of the fact that we are trying our very best to purchase a property for the Sabha. However for the next three months circulars will be sent by both post and email and members who do not receive their circulars by email are requested to forward us their email addresses and are also advised to notify the Sabha, in future, of any change in their email addresses. Members co-operation in this matter will be greatly appreciated. 8. THANKS & ACKNOWLEDGMENT 8.1 Sastha Preethi: Our Annual Sastha Preethi function on 1 st Jan 2001 was celebrated with good attendance. The bhajan session went on very well. We would however like to see more of our youth joining in the bhajans. The success of the function would not have been possible without your participation, assistance and cooperation. On behalf of the Sabha the Management Committee extends a very BIG THANK YOU. 8.2 Mandala Veda Parayanam: The parayanam was completed successfully with the enthusiastic support of members. It is fervently hoped that more members will come forward readily in future so that this rare tradition will continue forever. The Sabha once again thanks all the hosts for their kind gesture in hosting the parayanam in their homes. 5
8.3. Smt Jayam and Sri S Narayanaswamy (ON-02) wish to thank the members of the Sabha for their gracious attendance, blessings,good wishes and precious gifts, at the couple s Bheema Ratha Shanti ceremonies held at the Sri Sivan Temple on 16 th & 17 th December 2000. 9. APPEAL 9.1. Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt has appealed for liberal donations for the construction of Raja Gopuram for Sri Ramanatha Swamy Temple, Rameshwaram. All contributions may be sent to Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam (Sri Ramaswamy Temple Gopuram Construction) No 1 Salai Street, Kancheepuram 631502 or you may send your donation favouring Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam to our Hon.Secretary Sri P.S. Somasekharan. who will dispatch with other contributions and obtain prasadam. 9.2 Kanchi Acharyal Jagadguru Vijayendra Saraswati Swamigal has appealed to all our NRI s to furnish their particulars for their data bank as per the enclosed format. We encourage our members to comply and forward the same direct to Kanchi Mutt. 10. CONGRATULATIONS Upanayanam of Chi. Aniruddh s/o Smt Uma and Sri K E Rangarajan (OR-136) on 26 th Jan 2001 at Chennai. Birth of a grandson to Smt Jayam and Sri S Narayanaswamy (ON-02) third son to Smt Bhagyalakshmi and Sri Sundareswara Sharma on 8 th Jan 2001 in Singapore. 11. MARRIAGE BUREAU Alliance sought from Tamil Iyer grooms with clean habits below 35 years with M.S.or Ph.D working in Singapore or abroad for Tamil Iyer girl, 30 years, 5 4, Sadamarshana Gothram, Ph.D working as a lecturer in Singapore. For further details please contact Sri Kuppuswamy Iyer at 476-8344 or email skuppuswamy@hotmail.com. Alliance sought for Vadama, Athreya Gothram, Avittam Nakshathiram boy aged 32 years, 6, B.Tech (IITM), MBA (Boston) working in Deutsche Bank, New York, Greencard holder from suitable girls working in USA. Alliance also sought for Vadama, Athreya Gothram, Swathi Nakshathiram girl aged 28 years, 5 6 ½, presently doing Phd in USA from boys working or studying in USA. For further details on above two alliances please contact Mrs.Lalitha Mahesh at 887-3978. Alliance sought for 35 year old Tamil Iyer boy, 5 8,professional well settled in Australia, For further details please write to the Advertiser, Box 1238L, GPO Melbourne VC 3001 or Email ramva@vsnl.com 12. CONDOLENCES Dr.N.K.N. Iyer (OI-03) passed away in Baltimore on 2 nd Dec 2000. Dr Iyer took a keen interest in the Veda classes and completed the Krishna Yajur Veda 44 Sakhas. He was one of the regular participants in the Poojas and Veda Parayanam. The first Krithigai Mandala Veda Parayanam was started in his house. Our deepest condolences to the bereaved family. 6 P.S. Somasekharan Hon. Secretary
SANKRANTI PONGAL The day on which sun begins to move northwards is known as Makara Sankranti. On this day, oblations are offered to the departed ancestors. The six months period (Uttarayana) during which sun travels northwards is considered very favourable to every one aspiring for higher goals of life. On this day, first harvest (Pongal) is offered to Sun God. On the previous day, called Bhogi, old things are burnt, houses are whitewashed and dirty things are discarded. While external impurities are cleaned, on the Sankranti Day, one should clean the mind as well as Sun, symbolizing knowledge and wisdom, on its northward course, shed its light and warmth in greater abundance and infuse more life and energy. Sun God who is impartial, regular and punctual never claims a reward and if one imbibes these qualities, is sure to shine like a Sun with luster. There is a family re-union in all homes. Brothers renew their contact with married sisters giving some presents. Farmer is greeted and is given grains, clothes and money. On the next day, cows are worshipped, young girls offer various special dishes on the bank of river or tank to enable birds and other creatures to be fed. These days are generally avoided for travel mainly to be with the family. 7