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KHNA President:
Dr. Ramadas Pillai, CA
KHNA Vice-President:
Mr. Satheesan Nair, IL
KHNA Trustees Chair:
Mr. T. N. Nair, TX
KHNA Trustees Vice
Chair: Mr. Govindan Janardhanan, NY
KHNA Secretary:
Mr. Vinodh Bahuleyan, CA
KHNA Joint Secreatary:
Mr. Nishanth Nair, NY
KHNA Trustees Secretary:
Mr. Presannan Pillai, IL
KHNA Treasurer:
Mrs. Girija Raghavan, CA
KHNA Joint Treasurer:
Mr. Balakrishnan Panicker, CA
KHNA Youth Chair:
Ms. Keerthi Paliath, CA
Convention Chair:
Dr. Radha Menon, CA
Co-chair:
Dr. Padmanabha Iyer, CA
Convenor:
Mr. Ravi Vellatheri, CA
Co-Convenor:
Mr. Raju Nanoo, NY
Regional Vice Presidents:
Canada:
Dr. P. K. Kutty, Toronto
US-West:
Mr. Manoj Empranthiri, CA
US-Midwest:
Mr. Arvind Pillai, IL
US-East:
Mr. Parthasaradhi Pillai, NY
US-South:
Mr. Renil Radhakrishnan, TX
Advisory Council:
Mr. Manmadhan Nair, TX
Mr. Sasidharan Nair, TX
Mr. Anil Kumar Pillai, IL
Mr. Venkat Sarma, NY
Mr. Udayabhanu Panickar, GA
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Kerala Hindus of North America, June 2, 2009
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If you are receiving this email for the first time from KHNA, the only organization that represents and networks all
Hindu Malayalees in North America, it is probably because one of your friends requested for you to be kept
informed! Please forward to your friends, or email us with their names.
Dear Friends! This e-Anjali is mostly focussed on next month's convention. Hope you have been keeping up
with all the activities of KHNA through our web site. If you
need a compact brochure on KHNA for yourself or to give your friends, please click
here! .. We apologize for the length of
this email - we have so much to tell you!!
Los Angeles (Sathyananda Nagar) Convention, July 10-13: First of all, a big "Thank You" to
so many of you who have registered for the convention. At the bottom, please see the names of families
registered so far. We invite all of you who have not registered yet to click
here
to reach the convention website and register using your credit card, or to download forms to fill up
and mail us. Just as at our past conventions, we expect over 1000 people to come to the convention to
renew their friendship and acquientance and enjoy a great weekend with spiritual upliftment, cultural
activities and social networking. You can find all information on the convention at our website,
www.namaha.org. Please ask the youth to visit the Youth website as well. The Ananya Miss-KHNA competition
needs more entries urgently!
- URGENT: The registration rates will go up next week. We had warned that there could
be an increase in the registration rates, but had delayed it all the way from January till now. The hotel
needs a room count from us next monday to hold rooms at the low negotiated rates, and we have to pay $45/per
night more for rooms requested after next week. Thus the registration rates will go up by the corresponding
amount for three nights. Here are the increased rates in effect from June 8th:
Narmada registartion (one room family of 4): $999 increases to $1,134
Sindhu registartion (one room, 2 people): $749 to $884
Kaveri registartion (one room sharing with another person): $399 to $467
Please register urgently or email us with your FIRM commitment (strictly by 7 pm PST,
Sunday June 7th) to receive the current rates -
registration@namaha.org.
- Convention program: Honored guests all confirmed!: We are glad to confirm all the
dignitaries, speakers and artistes we had advertized in the flyer we sent you two months back (see the
flyer below). Please see the program dignitaries
page. The only exception is Smt. Gouri Parvathi Bai of Travancore Palace, who
is unable to join us. We are also pleased to inform that Sri Jayan Master of JayaVijayan fame,
will be with us too. FYI, the Art of Living Foundation has informed us that our Chief guest, Guruji
Sri Sri Ravishankar will be doing his satsang program on saturday July 11th at 4 pm
- Your participation in seminars & round tables: If you are interested in taking part
in any of the seminars (if particularly interesting, we may still consider an additional seminar or roundtable
proposal from you!), please contact the seminar chair, Sri. Govindan Kutty Nair (661-345-5281,
vgkn@hotmail.com). Please see the
seminar program page for an early
list of topics being organized - this will be updated with the details of speakers and session chairs
very shortly.
- Adult/children/youth participation in competitions:The 12 competitions announced
(the flyers were emailed to you recently - please see
competitions page) still need
much more participation. We were particularly surprised that only 8 entries have come for the children's
Geetha Chanting competition. Many of you who are Chinmaya Mission Balavihar coordinators may know malayali
children who take part in such a competition - may we ask you to please take note? Please let the
competitions/children committee chair Smt. Sreedevi Warrier (949-859-0966,
sreedeviwarrier@yahoo.com) know urgently.
The classical music and quiz competitions also have received very few entries so far. Please note that the
Ravi Varma Arts Competition does not require attendance at the convention - the deadline for
that is extended to June 26th, by when arts entries need to reach us by mail.
- Your organization/state participation in the inaugural procession/thalappoli: A highlight of
our conventions has always been the inaugural procession with our fabulous ladies doing thalappoli with
chenda melam and vallappaattu. As per our usual tradition, we will have each country's state/province group
walk in the procession with their banner. This will be done in alphabetical order except for California/USA,
the host state. Within each state's group there can be multiple cities' and organization's banners.
Please contact your regional coordinators (see the
contacts page) on this matter. For thalappoli,
we will provide flowers and lamps (electric or candles). We would appreciate it if you can bring thalams, as our
supplies may be limited. The regional coordinators are requestd to contact the chair for Thalappoli, Smt. Rema Nair
(remanrema@yahoo.com) by June 15th, with a count of the women in your
city/group doing thalappoli so that we can order flowers and lamps, and please let us know if you need Thalams
(first email, first served!). The attire will be Set mundu with blouse, as usual. We may also have a few extra
set mundu/maroon blouse available from what we ordered for the host state (first come first served again).
- Not coming to the convention? You can support KHNA through raffles and family picture compliments!
Some of you have personal reasons like summer trips to Kerala preventing you from joining us. Please don't forget
that the convention is also KHNA's biennial event to also raise funds for several of our activities. We need your
help too! There is no point in all of us meeting, having fun, talking a lot and spending money, without following up
on our objectives. If you are not coming, the best way you can help us would be to buy raffle tickets or send
us a best compliments advertisement in the convention souvenir. Rather than wasting white space, your family
picture would be the most approrpriate compliments in the souvenir. A full page compliments family picture is
for $500 (half page - $250, quarter page - $125). As the souvenir will go to print in 2 weeks time,
we urgently need your advertisements or family picture compliments - by June 10th.
Or, you can support KHNA through a
raffle ticket purchase ($100 tickets, $10,000
cash first prize!). Please contact either of the chairs in charge, Sri Ravi Vellatheri (714-227-7385,
ravimenon@sbcglobal.net) or Sri Baburaj Dharan (562-644-2550,
baburajusa@yahoo.com).
KHNA Kerala Scholarships Program Update:
The KHNA scholarship committee has published the list of students selected for scholarship support for higher studies in Kerala. Please see the
KHNA scholarship site for the names of students.
You are welcome to continue to provide support for the project, as there is still time for you to pick up more students
for your generous support for the coming academic year!
KHNA News Updates
MAY 25, 2009 - KHNA Notice: Proposed Bylaw Amendment
APR 28, 2009 - KHNA Announces 2009 Elections
APR 10, 2009 - Raffle Fundraising Inaugurated
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From the Editors' desk -
If you have not received the Vishu edition of Anjali magazine, it should be reaching your very soon by mail.
Meanwhile, we are almost out of time for articles and other submissions for the souvenir. Please contact us if
you have any last minute submissions (especially advertisements!). To read the past Anjali magazines
online, please go to our website (click on the Anjali button), or click on the picture here! Thank you!
e-Anjali editor: Prof. R. Jayakrishnan (jaykay@translab.its.uci.edu)
e-Anjali sub-editor and Anjali editor: Dr. Ravi Raghavan
(pisharody@hotmail.com)
If you would like to opt out of receiving this newsletter please email Jayakrishnan
Readers' Corner:
This is usually the spiritual corner, but we thought you might find
this editorial opinion piece written by a Pakistani Muslim columnist! While many of us view people in
India's neighbour country as a monolith made of extremist religious views, it is always pleasant to see
that this kind of considered and moderate voices still exist there, and that humanity and logical thinking
have not entirely departed from certain parts of the world. Read and Enjoy! - Editors
A Monstrous Experiment - Nasir Abbas Mirza
Editorial Opinion - DAILY TIMES, Lahore, Pakistan
Remote madrassas may be turning boys into drones but then there are thousands of madrassas spread all over Pakistan’s urban centres that are producing millions of neo-drones who may not become suicide bombers but are totally unfit to live in this world. These kids need to be rescued.
Take a little boy and incarcerate him in a remote madrassa. Keep him far away from the rest of the world and bar any interaction with humanity. Indoctrinate him with a distorted version of a religion and tell him that he does not belong to this world. Teach him about the fanciful world that awaits him in the heaven, and that in order to attain that he has to destroy everything that stands in his way, including his own body.
By the time he is sixteen, the child would have become a drone: an un-manned man. Instead of a lively teenager, we would have a robot in living tissue ready to detonate on remote orders.
..... (CONTINUED ...)
For the full article, please
click here.
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E-Anjali - KHNA Newsletter © 2009, All rights reserved by KHNA
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List of Families Registered For the Convention (As of June 1st)
(If you had registered and your name is missing, please email
registration@namaha.org!
| Balagopal
Narayanan |
Aliso Viejo, CA, USA |
| Chandra Mohan |
Anaheim, CA, USA |
| Radha Menon |
Apple Valley, CA, USA |
| Raghu Aranagssery |
Arcadia, CA, USA |
| Siva Kumar |
Bell Canyon, CA, USA |
| Ravi Manjamkuzhi |
Canoga Park, CA, USA |
| Suresh Enchoor |
Carson, CA, USA |
| Baburaj Dharan |
Cerritos, CA, USA |
| Manalel Sreedharan |
Cerritos, CA, USA |
| Radhakrishnan Nair |
Cerritos, CA, USA |
| Rajasekharan Nair |
Cerritos, CA, USA |
| Rathi Vijayan |
Cerritos, CA, USA |
| Rema Nair |
Cerritos, CA, USA |
| Dharmarajan Thandassery |
Chatsworth, CA, USA |
| Sree Kumar |
Diamond Bar, CA, USA |
| Pratap Kumar |
Fremont, CA, USA |
| Babu Suresh |
Fullerton, CA, USA |
| Mahadevan P |
Fullerton, CA, USA |
| Padmanabha Iyer |
Fullerton, CA, USA |
| Jayachandran Nair |
Garden Grove, CA, USA |
| R. Jayakrishnan |
Irvine, CA, USA |
| Ravi Vellatheri |
Irvine, CA, USA |
| Sunil Warrier |
Lake Forest, CA, USA |
| Subhas Parameswaran |
Long Beach, CA, USA |
| Nair Krishnakumari |
Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Vinodh Bahuleyan |
Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Prasad Pillai |
Menifee, CA, USA |
| Ramadas Pillai |
Murrieta, CA, USA |
| Bijili Nagarajan |
North Hills, CA, USA |
| Sumitra Angepat |
Northridge, CA, USA |
| Kamaleshwaran Chellappan |
Oxnard, CA, USA |
| Harikumar Somakumar |
Pleasanton, CA, USA |
| Girija Raghavan |
Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA |
| Hari Nair |
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, USA |
| Jay Menon |
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, USA |
| Sivadasan Kulangara |
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, USA |
| Krishnan Ashok |
Simi Valley, CA, USA |
| Sreekumar Velayudhan |
Walnut, CA, USA |
| R. Narayanaswami |
Westlake Village, CA, USA |
| Balakrishnan Panicker |
Yorba Linda, CA, USA |
| Govindan Harikumar |
Yorba Linda, CA, USA |
| Chandra Venugopal |
Wellington, FL, USA |
| Udaybhanu Panickar |
Monroe, GA, USA |
| Appukuttan Kalakkal |
Addison, IL, USA |
| Krishnan Nadarajan |
Addison, IL, USA |
| Gopalakrishna Pillai |
Arlington Heights, IL, USA |
| Aje Pillai |
Des Plaines, IL, USA |
| Appukuttan Nair |
Des Plaines, IL, USA |
| Aravind Pillai |
Des Plaines, IL, USA |
| Deepak Koottanal |
Des Plaines, IL, USA |
| Satheesan Nair |
Des Plaines, IL, USA |
| Ravindran Prabhakaran |
Glen View, IL, USA |
| Reghunathan Nair |
Glendale Heights, IL, USA |
| Veliparambil Gopalakrishnan |
Glendale Heights, IL, USA |
| Anil Nair |
Lake Zurich, IL, USA |
| Jithendra Kaimal |
Morton Grove, IL, USA |
| Narayanan Kuttapan |
Morton Grove, IL, USA |
| Jayaprakash Balakrishnan |
Naperville, IL, USA |
| Rajagopal Nair |
Niles, IL, USA |
| Balasiva Panicker |
Oak Brook, IL, USA |
| Presannan Pillai |
Oak Brook, IL, USA |
| MNC Nair |
Savoy, IL, USA |
| Vasudevan Pillai |
Schaumburg, IL, USA |
| Anilkumar Pillai |
Skokie, IL, USA |
| Chandran Jay |
South Barrington, IL, USA |
| MG Menon |
Beltsville, MD, USA |
| Raj Kurup |
Ellicott City, MD, USA |
| Narayanankutty Menon |
Gaithersburg, MD, USA |
| PG
Ravindranathan |
Wildwood, MO, USA |
| Preetha Nambiar |
Hackensack, NJ, USA |
| Rajappan Nair |
Mickleton, NJ, USA |
| Jay Nair |
Mullica Hill, NJ, USA |
| Jayakrishnan Maniyil |
North Brunswick, NJ, USA |
| Radhakrishnan Nair |
South Amboy, NJ, USA |
| Sureshbabu Nair |
South Amboy, NJ, USA |
| Gopinathan Nair |
Swedesboro, NJ, USA |
| Unnikrishnan Nair |
Weehawken, NJ, USA |
| Sukumaran Sreekumar |
Bellerose, NY, USA |
| Thampi Sekharan |
Bellerose, NY, USA |
| Satish Kalath |
East Meadow, NY, USA |
| Rajan P. Nair |
Eastchester, NY, USA |
| Prabhakaran Vadakedath |
Elmont, NY, USA |
| Ramani D. Pillai |
Elmsford, NY, USA |
| Balakrishnan Nair |
Floral Park, NY, USA |
| Padmini Narikot |
Floral Park, NY, USA |
| Nanoo Raju |
Oakland Gardens, NY, USA |
| Savithri Nair |
Ossining, NY, USA |
| A. K. B Pillai |
Riverdale, NY, USA |
| Ganesh Nair |
Rye Brooke, NY, USA |
| Puthiyaveettil Chandran |
White Plains, NY, USA |
| Sreekumarbabu Unnithan |
White Plains, NY, USA |
| Surendran Nair |
White Plains, NY, USA |
| Rajasekharan Nair |
Yonkers, NY, USA |
| Dileep Kumar |
Hillsboro, OR, USA |
| Thankappan Nair |
Broomall, PA, USA |
| Viswathanathan Pillai |
Broomall, PA, USA |
| Radhakrishnan Nair |
Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Reghunathan Nair |
Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Suda Kartha |
Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Murali Krishnan |
Upper Darby, PA, USA |
| Sivan Pillai |
Upper Darby, PA, USA |
| Madhusoodhanan Nair |
Upper Darby, PA, USA |
| Suresh Babu |
West Chester, PA, USA |
| Hem Ramachandran |
Austin, TX, USA |
| Gopala Pillai |
Carrollton, TX, USA |
| Sreeman Namputhiri |
Carrollton, TX, USA |
| Suresh Kumar |
Carrollton, TX, USA |
| Chandrasekharan Nair |
Colleyville, TX, USA |
| Satheesh Chandran |
Coppell, TX, USA |
| T.N. Nair |
Frisco, TX, USA |
| Peringandoor Hariharan |
Houston, TX, USA |
| Suresh Kakkoth |
Houston, TX, USA |
| Vilas Kumar |
Irving, TX, USA |
| Renil Pullarkat Radhakrishnan |
Keller, TX, USA |
| Sarada Narendran |
Lubbok, TX, USA |
| Gopakumar Nair |
Missouri City, TX, USA |
| Hari B. Pillai |
North Richland Heights, TX, USA |
| Chittoor Ramachandran |
Pearland, TX, USA |
| Painkal Vijayakumar |
Pearland, TX, USA |
| Somarajan Nair |
Pearland, TX, USA |
| Venugopal Menon |
Pearland, TX, USA |
| Soman Kunjupappan |
Plano, TX, USA |
| Shyamala Nair |
Round Rock, TX, USA |
| Sreekumaran Nair |
Southlake, TX, USA |
| Swamy Mydur |
Southlake, TX, USA |
| Anil Kumar Aranmula |
Stafford, TX, USA |
| Aranmula Gopalakrishnan Nair |
Stafford, TX, USA |
| Sasidharan Nair |
Stafford, TX, USA |
| Shanmughan Vallulissery |
Stafford, TX, USA |
| Chandran
Kesavan |
Sugar Land, TX, USA |
| Surendran Kalathilthazha |
Sugar Land, TX, USA |
| Ajith Kumar |
Sugarland, TX, USA |
| Asokan Kesavan |
Sugarland, TX, USA |
| C. V. Sathees |
Sugarland, TX, USA |
| Haridasan Pillai |
Sunnyvale, TX, USA |
| Raju Pillai |
Sunnyvale, TX, USA |
| Radhakrishna Panicker |
The Colony, TX, USA |
| Baiju Pillai |
Watauga, TX, USA |
| Ratheesh Chand Nair |
Richmond, VA, USA |
| Vinod Kannan |
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, MEX |
| Hareendranath Vengilat |
Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon, MEX |
| Bhaskaran Menon |
Brampton, ON, CANADA |
| Gopinathan Menon |
Brampton, ON, CANADA |
| P.K.Kutty |
Brampton, ON, CANADA |
| Shankaran Thekkeppatt |
Brampton, ON, CANADA |
| Anil Raghavan |
Mumbai, INDIA |
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