WRITTEN BY LONDON SWAMINATHAN
Post No. 9214
Date uploaded in London – –1 FEBRUARY 2021
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FEBRUARY 1 MONDAY BROADCAST ON GNANAMAYAM CHANNEL
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT WAS A TALK ON THE GREAT TAMIL SCHOLAR KI. VA. JAGANNATHAN BY HIS DAUGHTER MRS UMA BALASUBRAHMANYAM OF CHENNAI.
LONDON SWAMINATHAN, PRODUCER, INTRODUCED HER. SHE IS A GREAT TEACHER SPREADING TIRUPPUGAZ THROUGH HER STUDENTS.
IN HER TALK, SHE COVERED VARIOUS ASPECTS OF HIS FATHER’S LIFE FROM HIS EALRLY CHILDHOOD.
IMPORTANT POINTS TOUCHED BY HER ARE AS FOLLOWS…..
1.KI.VA.JA.WAS SIRITUALLY BENT IN HIS CHILDHOOD. HE WENT TO SENTHAMANGALAM SWAMIKAL AND ASKED FOR SANYAS. SWAMIJI KNOWING HIS FAMILY COMMITMENTS, ASED HIM TOGET HIS PARENT’S PERMISSION TO BECOME A SANYASI.
2.KI.VA.JA.WHO WAS A STUDENT OF GREAT SCHOLAR U.VE.SWAMINATHA IYER USED TO SERVE HIM IN VARIOUS WAYS IN THE STYLE OF GURU-SISHYA.
3.KI.VA.JA WHO WROTE OVER 200 BOOKS CONSIDRED HIS GURU U.VE.SA AND LORD MURUGA AS HIS TWO EYES. ALWAYS THANKED THEM IN ALL HIS LECTURES.
4. THE GREAT TAMIL SCHOLAR DID 24 LAKH GAYATRI MANTRA RECITATION.
5. HIS DEDICATION TO TAMIL WAS VERY DEEP AND HE DID KANDAR ALANKARA TALKS EVERYDAY FOR THREE YEARS.
6.HIS SPEECHES WERE FULL OF HUMOROUS REAMRAKS AND PUN ON WORDS. ONCE HE SAW AN ANT IN THE MILK CUP AND COMMENTED ‘SRINI’ ‘VASAN’ (VISHNU) IS LYING IN THE OCEAN OF MILK.
SRINI IS A PUN FOR TAMIL WORD SEENI/SUGAR, VASAN IS A PUN WITH TWO MEANINGS ONE WHO RESIDES AND ONE WHO EATS SUGAR AND LIVES (VASI= LIVE).
SRINIVASAN/ANT WAS IN THE MILK CUP.
ON ANOTHER OCCASION THE SPEAKER WHO INTRODUCED HIM SAID HERE IS AN ‘UNCROWNED’ KING OF TAMIL. IMMEDIATELY HE SHOWED HIS TUFT AND SHOWED HE WAS A CROWNED KING.
‘MUDI’ IN TAMIL MEANS ‘CROWN’ AND ‘HAIR’.
HE WAS A SPEAKER, WRITER AND EDITOR OF (KALAIMAGAL) MAGAZINE.
7. HE LED A VERY SIMPLE LIFE AND WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE FOR PARIS TO ATTEND THE WORLD TAMIL CONFERECNCE, HE COULDN’T EVEN KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GLOVES AND SOCKS, WHICH HE NEVER WORE OR SEEN UNTIL THAT DAY.
MRS BALA SUBRAHMANYAM GAVE LOT OF INFORMATION ABOUT KI.VA.JA.’S TALKS AND POEMS COVERING DIVINE SUBJECTS AND TAMIL LITEARTURE.
8. HE STARTED WRITING POEMS FROM THE AGE OF 12. HE WAS A BORN POET.
GNANA MAYAM TEAM REQUESTED HER TO COME AGAIN AND TALK ABOUT HER TIRUPPUGAZ CLASSES.
FOLLOWING WAS THE PROGRAMME—-
ANNOUNCEMENT & PRAYER – Thirupppugaz BY REVATHY AND VASANTHA FROM CHENNAI, STUDENTS OF MRS LAKSHMI RAMASWAMY.
TAMIL SCHOLAR KI.VA.JAGANNATHAN’S DAUGHTER MRS UMA BALASUBRAHMANYAM FROM CHENNAI SPOKE ON KI.VA.JA AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO TAMIL LANGUAGE
Ms Lalitha Malar Maniam from Malaysia SANG on Lord Shiva
Mr Srinivasan from Chennai continued his talk on Nine Planets/ Navagraha – Sun/ Surya WAS DEALT WITH TODAY.
APPR. 60 MINUTES
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INTRODUCTION TO GNANAMAYAM
WE LAUNCHED A HINDU BROADCAST IN AUGUST 2020 AND IT IS GOING WELL ON MONDAYS VIA ZOOM AND FACEBOOK.
LATER WE HAVE EXTENDED IT TO ONE MORE DAY, ON SUNDAYS TO SPREAD TAMIL CULTURE.
BOTH OUR BROADCASTS ARE NON- POLITICAL AND NON -COMMERCIAL.
WE DON’T ADVOCATE OR SUPPORT ANY VIOLENCE IN ANY FIELD.
IT IS APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR BROADCAST FROM LONDON.
TIME OF BROADCAST- ONE PM, LONDON TIME—— 6-30 PM INDIAN TIME
DAYS- MONDAYS AND SUNDAYS
MONDAYS FOR HINDUISM (UNDER GNANAMAYAM AND GNANA SUDAR)
SUNDAYS FOR TAMIL CULTURE & LANGUAGE (UNDER THAMIZ MUZAKKAM/ TAMIL THUNDER)
(After Pongal 2021, we do Tamil and Hinduism on both days)
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WHO IS THE PRODUCER?
LONDON SWAMINATHAN IS PRODUCING IT ON BEHALF OF ‘GNANAMAYAM’ , LONDON.
(FORMER BBC BROADCASTER, SENIOR SUB EDITOR, DINAMANI, FORMER TAMIL TUTOR, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON; 3 JOBS FROM 1971- 2014; NOW BLOGGER AND NEWS EDITOR, GNANAMAYAM CHANNEL)
SRI KALYANA SUNDARA SIVACHARYAR OF WORLD HINDU MAHASANGAM
IS ANOTHER PRODUCER
AND MRS SUJATHA RENGANATHAN AND MRS VAISHNAVI ANAND ARE CO-PRODUCERS FOR OUR PROGRAMMES
WHERE IS IT?
ON ZOOM AND
SUNDAY BRODACAST HAS WORLD HINDU NEWS ROUND UP IN ENGLISH AND TAMIL
IN ADDITION WE ANSWER LISTENERS’ QUESTIONS ON HINDU RELIGION AND TAMIL CULTURE ON THESE DAYS
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