“The Mylapore Trio” Amarnath, Surendranath, Aparna, Sugathan and Members of Sri Sumukhi Rajasekharan Memorial Foundation conducted the 16th‘SUMUKHAIVA SADHAS’ – A Virtual Cultural Meet during this extraordinary pandemic situation and lockdown. It was a unique concept and a different conclave involving professionals of different genre. The BIRDS OF “DIFFERENT FEATHERS’’ FLOCKED TOGETHER. A platform was provided to a Speaker to talk on a subject of his/her choice or profession or expertise and the only criteria are, the topic must be correlated to culture and history. This was followed by an interesting questionnaire session which leads to a good interaction. Every week audience learn a new subject enabling themselves to become more knowledge-centric.
The 16th Session was conducted on Sunday, 18th October, 2020 from 4.15pm to 7.00pm. The Programme began with the Prayer on the Trio's Foster Parents Smt. Sumukhi and Shri. Rajasekharan and their Grand Mother Smt. Nagammal, written and sung by Smt. Revathy Sankkaran.
The topic of last week Saddhas was “Golu Paakkalaam Vaanga”.This session was something special because we visited around 10 houses to have a glimpse of their respective Golus of Our Foundation Members.
Surendranth said that Sumukhi Amma used to purchase very huge dolls from panruti for her golu during her days which was all a visual treat. He also felt that this virtual golu visit was a new experience and in future it might turn out to be a 3D virtual golu with the visitors wearing 3D spectacles and reaching out to the dolls with their hands….a innovative thought indeed.
The first house we visited was Shakambari Mother’s Golu at West Mambalam. It was a very compact golu with a warm welcome and a good hospitality, was really heart touching. Her “signature campaign” is very exclusive and a novel idea.
The next was Septuagenarian Usha Krishnamuthy and her daughter Sindhu’s house at Mylapore. She gave a traditional welcome and explained about her antique silver miniature toys and a few more old dolls which were of many decades.
The third golu was of Balambika and her cute little son Murari. Her golu had few age old ancestral dolls. The highlight was the small golu arranged by Murari and his explanation.
The fourth was that of kids Krishnamurty and his sister Soundarya. A golu arranged in a small and cute manner. But the explanation and the interpretation of the boy was amazing. His little sister was traditionally decked up in “madisar” was interesting to look at.
The fifth was Preethi’s golu at her Bombay apartment was arranged for the first time after her marriage. Her arrangement of dolls was neat and her marapachi bommais were the highlight.
The sixth golu was Preethi’s mother Smt. Lakshmi at Pallavaram, was full of her hand work as usual and interesting. The golu exhibited her creativity and collection of a variety of dolls with colourful display. Her hospitality was a well known fact even virtually.
The seventh golu we visited was a small thematic golu on “Gurus” by Septuagenarian Smt. Vidya Sayinath at Thiruvanmiyur. She had displayed all the gurus and teachers who had impacted her life. Her creative art works and paintings are a visual treat to one and all.
The eighth golu was a traditional golu by little boy Arya Venkatesh. He was dressed up like a “Mama” in dhothi and bare body. His “Baby Talk” and ‘Boyish Explanation’ was the hightlight of his golu.
The nineth golu was none other than Sughathan’s golu at Thiruvanmiyur. This time he had arranged a golu of different shape and size to suit the needs. His innovative and creative thought of Oonjal Golu was appreciable. He had placed his favourite goddess Rajamatangi on a Mandap and the same was placed on a traditional Oonjal with two Gandharvas tided on either side to shower flowers on the Goddess. It looked realistic as if we were in a Temple. His explanation was informative and interesting.
The last but not the least golu was that of Aradhana’s mother Sreeja at Mylapore. Her golu with big Perumal and Thayar looked very divine decked up with flowers. Her explanation was reflecting her family sentiments.
Aparna said that Sumukhi Amma gave the best freedom to do what ever we wanted to do culturally and spiritually. She got us the best of dolls and encouraged our creativity and imagination.
At the end, Amarnath said that Sumukhi Amma taught us the cultural and the social aspects of Golu. She made us arrange golu though we were boys and kindled our artistic flavour. That gave us a vent to exhibit our creativity.
Sugathan’s Naturo Upaya explained the goodness of preparing and eating a variety of Sundals during Navarathri. These are highly rich in every aspect – fibre, minerals, calcium, protein etc.
For the first time in the Sadhas, a group 30 senior citizens joined the meeting from the Dignity Foundation. They all enjoyed seeing the various virtual golus. They appreciated the efforts of our Foundation. Ms. Felista Jose of Dignity Foundation had given them this opportunity to join our saddhas last week. She was earlier a part of MCDS and had been to Trio's golu for years, along with the children and elders of Dooming Kuppam at Foreshore Estate. Since its golu time she remembered us and brought their members for this virtual meet.
As per the diktat of the Foundation, all the participants were in maroon and olive green attire.
The
Programme ended with a happy note to meet again next week with a different
Speaker and a Topic.
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