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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

ARANMULA VILLAGE TO CELEBRATE SUGATHAKUMARI’S BIRTHDAY

ARANMULA VILLAGE TO CELEBRATE SUGATHAKUMARI’S BIRTHDAY
The 80th birthday of Sugathakumari, poet and socio-environmental activist, will be celebrated in her home village of Aranmula on Wednesday.In a statement here on Monday, organising committee convener P.P. Chandrashekharan Nair said the celebrations would be held in front of the sacred grove in the courtyard of the poet’s ancestral home, Vazhuvelil Tharavadu, near the Sree Parthasarathy temple. Philipose Mar Chrysostum, senior Metropolitan of the Mar Thoma Church, and Swami Golokananda, president of the Thiruvalla Sri Ramakrishna Ashram, will felicitate Ms. Sugathakumari at a function at 11 a.m.
Royce Mallasserry, Principal, Kozhencherry St. Thomas College; Jose Parakkadavil, District Kathakali Club president; P. Sreekumar, literary critic; O.S. Unnikrishnan, and Aranmula Vijayakumar, poets, will speak. Thomas P. Thomas of St. Thomas College will present a paper on the interventions of Ms. Sugathakumari in social and environmental issues.

Prof. John Kurakar

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