Young Talents under one roof at Thripunithura

The Mahanavami eve witnessed an assembly of young talents at Sivapoorna a/c auditorium at Thripunithura. Nearly 30 students were hounered in the Merit Evening organized by Kerala Brahmana Sabha, Thripunithura Upasabha. Dr. K. S. Radhakrishnan, Ex-Vice Chancellor of Sree Sankara Sanskrit University inaugurated the Merit Evening held on Saturday, the 16th of October 2010. P. S. Raman (State Vice President and President, Thripunithura Upasabha) presided over the meeting. Gold Medals were presented to the students who scored highest marks in 10th and 12th examinations in both SSLC and CBSE streams. Rank holders from Thripunithura Upasabha in various University examinations and top scorers in other examinations were also honoured by presenting certificates and mementoes by the Chief Guest.

In his inaugural address Dr. Radhakrishnan said that the discrimination expressed by many to Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer who wrote Malayala Sahithya Charithram and Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer who is the creator of modern Kerala cannot be justified. Ulloor was a real humanist and Sir C. P. was an excellent administrator. Both of them were then attacked by some special interest groups – he said. The definition of Education has changed from “cultural activity guided by moral values” to “economic activity determined by market forces”. So no student of the community should step back in education only because of poor financial back ground. Kerala Brahmana Sabha should fund all the poor students for their education who have caliber to prove themselves – Dr. Radhakrishnan said addressing the parents and students.

P. S. Raman in his presidential address requested all the members to join together to make Thripunithura Upasabha a model upasabha in the state of Kerala. The acceptance of office by the newly elected office bearers of Youth Wing of Thripunithura Upasabha was also held in the meeting. B. Lakshmi (President), Rajagopal H. (Vice President), Sreeram R. (Secretary), H. Neelakandan (Joint Secretary) and Padmanabhan (Treasurer) took charge as office bearers of Youth Wing. Addressing the audience, E. V. Lakshmi (District President, Youth Wing) urged the youth to channelize the thoughts and actions with help of elders.

The certificates and prizes for the winners of the cultural competitions in Upasabha level were also given away in the meeting by P. Ananthasubramaniam (State General Secretary) and V. Krishnaswami (District President).

M. R. Anantharaman (Head of the Department of Physics, CUSAT), K. Annalakshmi (District President, Vanitha Vibhagam) and Harinath D. (Secretary, Youth Wing, Ernakulam District) addressed the gathering. R. Venugopal (Secretary, Thripunithura Upasabha), Balu Narayanan (State Joint Secretary), Revathy Krishnan (President, Vanitha Vibhagam, Thripunithura Upasabha), Meenakshi Varadarajan (Secretary, Vanitha Vibhagam, Thripunithura Upasabha) were also present on the occasion. Harinath D. was honoured by draping a ponnada by P. S. Raman and Mohandas S. (District Joint Secretary, Kerala Brahmana Sabha & Moderator, www.kbsekm.blogspot.com) was honoured by draping a ponnada by Dr. K. S. Radhakrishnan. The prize winners in their speech conveyed their gratitude to the parents, teachers, the almighty God and Sabha for their support. S. Ramakrishnan delivered the welcome address and N. V. Krishnan (Joint Secretary, Thripunithura Upasabha) said vote of thanks.

The following were honoured in the Merit Evening 2010 for academic achievements.

Reshma R., V. C. Keerthana, Vishnu K., Gokul P. Ram, Anish K., Gayathri R., Sandhya R., Aswath R., Shilpa S. Kavasseri, Vikhyath Kumar, S. Ajay Ganesh, Anjali V. Gopal, Sangeetha G., S. Shruthi, Lakshmi Priya K., Navaneeth Krishnan, Aswathi Krishnan, Santhosh K., Sreevidhya H., Gayathri R., Sowmya V. Ganesh, Karthik S., Gopika Jayaram, Priyanka Subramanian, Sarada Sethuraman, Sharmila Sivakumar, Anish K.