February 2008

Greetings from the New Executive Committee Members to all! As you are all aware, the AMMA Annual General body Meeting (AGM) was held on 26th July 2008. I welcome and congratulate the new committee members, Jose Chacko (Vazhikatti), Bobby Koshy Alex (Treasurer) and Lydia Langlin (Arts), I also take this op-portunity to sincerely thank the out-going committee members Joy Mathews, Biju George and Anitha John for the wonderful effort and hard work they put in towards the growth of the association.

“Sangamam’08’ was a grand success. We had a larger audience than we expected. A big thank you to Saji Verghese and the Sangamam Subcommittee for working tirelessly to mobilize such a big crowd and generate the necessary funds. I also sincerely thank all the financial sponsors of this program specially the main spon-sor ‘Spice Route Australia’. ONAM 2008 is just a couple of weeks away. Keeping in mind the sweet memories of ONAM that we’ve had in the past years, we will be celebrating it on 20th September with a variety of cultural programs and our partici-pants are all set to perform for us. I thank and appreciate all those who have willingly agreed to volunteer vari-ous duties and are finding time and effort to make our ONAM program a grand success. On behalf of the Ex-ecutive committee, I wish all our community members a very Happy and Prosperous Onam! With Regards, Biju Joseph President

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ADELAIDE & METROPOLITAN MALAYALEE ASSOCIATION NEWS & VIEWS

ONAM 2008

Saturday, 20th September 2008

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September 2008

Adelaide Metropolitan Malayalee Association’s Annual Generalbody meeting was held on 26 July. The meeting was attended by around 350 members including many new families. This attendance showed that the members are closely monitoring the administration and want to have their say in all issues. AGM started with President’s report by Biju Joseph on overall performance followed by Treasurers report by Joy Mathew. President’s report detailed the growing number of programs undertaken by AMMA for the benefit of community and overall growth of the association over last year. Treasurer’s report was pleasing as the members can find the association is getting financially stable. The night was spectacular with the outstanding performance from the talents in our community. Most importantly it was an opportunity for the community members to meet each other and welcome new members into closely knit malayalee community.

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President Biju Joseph

Vice President Girish V

Secretary Melna Shaji

Treasurer Bobby Alex Koshy

Website Tomy George

Sports Saji Verghese

Arts Lydia Langlin

Vazhikatty Jose Chacko

Publication Sreejith Kesavan

AMMA Executive Committee

Annual General body Meeting

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Jolly Sooraj Vishnu Govind Narayan Naveen Vinod

George Varghese

Lathish Namath James Veliyath Rajan K

Lydia Langlin

Ramkumar

Seema Sreekumar Sandeep Chalil Rajith Chundayi

Mahesh K S

Subcommittee—SAREGAMA

Subcommittee—Vazhikatty

Subcommittee—sports

Subcommittee—Publication

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Dear readers, Are we ready for another Onam? Onam, the festival of flowers, an annual celebration of the sprit of Mahabali’s reign of justice, will continue to inspire us to strive for that Golden Mean. – Equality - Even if the story of Mahabali is pure fiction it is a beautiful story - not because it takes us back to an era of social justice, but it helps us dream: The more the inequality, the more will be the intensity of the equality dream. But we also have to look ourself and make sure that there are no discrepancies in the way we perceive the external and internal world. Otherwise, like Mahabali, we might get carried away by our sense of self-importance. Wish you all a happy Onam and prosperous new year. Thank you Sreejith Kesavan

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Chitra Iyer (the popular South Indian playback singer) and team performed an enchanting stage pro-gram in Westminster School Hall, Adelaide on 16th August 2008. This event was organized by Adelaide Mala-yalee Metropolitan Association. Chitra’s mellifluous musical parade did include many film hits from Malaya-lam, Tamil and Hindi; which were welcomed by the audience with cheer and applause. Kishor Varma, the leading male voice of the event could accomplish a melodious performance in the absence of Afzal and his co-singer Yazar did a great job on key board while singing simultaneously. Other items of the evening were presented by Baiju, Prashanth, Devichandana, and Manoj Guiness much to the delight of viewers. Their humorous shows and skits made an enthralling mood in the hall and among them Baiju was outstanding with his characteristic and peculiar numbers. Prasanth showed a good talent in coordination and presentation of the program. AMMA can be proud and happy in organizing this entertainment for their members who were cherishing for such an event for a long time.

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STORY BEHIND ONAM The story runs thus “There lived an emperor in

kerala by name Maha- Bali - (Maha meaning great) .He

ruled this piece of land so well that his kingdom became

More prosperous than heaven. This made the demi- gods

of heaven so jealous that they conspired to eliminate

him. The demigods (Devas) approached Lord Vishnu,

their chief and appealed for the elimination of the king to

save the heaven from loosing its status. Lord Vishnu

took the shape of a poor Brahmin and approached the king beseeched for Alms the king offered to give the

Brahmin whatever he asked. In return the Brahmin begged for three feet measure of land. The Brahmin all

of a sudden turned in to his original form and measured all earth, heaven and hell with his two feet and

asked for space for his third foot. Mahabali came to know about true identity of the royal visitor and with

due obeisance bowed his head before Lord Vishnu and begged that the third foot may be placed on his

head. Lord Vishnu Was shaken by the benevolence of the great Mahabali and readily headed to Bali’s

humble request that once in a year he may be permitted to visit his dear land that is Kerala. And after

Vishnu placed his foot on the head of the emperor, suddenly the Emperor was transported to his original

abode. But as promised Mahalbali visits Kerala once in a year to see his dear people it is believed that

Mahabali visits each and every home in Kerala. People of Kerala to show their respect to their former king

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Printed and Published by Adelaide & Metropolitan Malayalee Association (AMMA), PO Box 199, Hindmarsh

AMMA - Executive Committee

ANNAMMA DANIEL 1914-2008

Born in Nagercoil, Kerala, India on September 12th, 1914.

Died in Elizabeth Vale, S. Australia on August 23rd 2008.

Aged 93 Years

Son: Alex Daniel

Congratulation to; • Biju George and Soumya for the

birth of their daughter Judith. • Ashish Joy and Annu for the birth

of their daughter Ashanya Joy . • Roy and Prabha for the birth of

their son Ron Roy Paul. • Nidhin Raphael and Smitha for the birth of their son

Nidhael.

MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL All members (new and old) are reminded that your membership is up for renewal. Generally, AMMA membership renewal process begins with the AGM. So, please renew your membership by paying your annual subscription fee $10.00 for family (including children up to the age of 18) and $5.00 for single. All recently arrived community members are encouraged to become members of the association by paying the Joining fee of $10.00.

President Biju Joseph –Ph: 8445 1132

Vice President Girish V - Ph: 8266 7240

Secretary Melna Shaji– Ph: 8297 0817

Treasurer Bobby Alex Koshy –Ph– 83623807

Arts Lydia Langlin- Ph: 0432 019 110

Sports Saji Verghese - Ph: 8268 4957

Vazhikatty Jose Chacko– Ph: 8268 6275

Website Tomy George– Ph: 8294 9831 Publication Sreejith Kesavan–Ph: 8349 5250

Adelaide & Metropolitan Malayalee Association and Ex-ecutive Committee pass on their commiseration to the families, relatives, and their friends. Biju Joseph, President , AMMA

NEWS LETTER If you have any articles or ideas that you may want to contribute to the upcoming news letters or an advertisement of your product or s e r v i c e p l e a s e e – m a i l t o amma@adelaidemalayalee.org or call us. Next edition will be printed in November.

AMMA EVENTS CALENDAR

ONAM 20 SEPTEMBER 2008

CHRISTMAS 6 DECEMBER 2008

VOLUNTEERS Volunteers are required for Onam and other functions. If you are willing to spare some time to help us organise the Onam Function please let us know.

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