Newsletter - December 2023
Dear Friends,
Floods in Tamil Nadu's southern districts and especially Thoothukudi - which received 950 mm, nearly a metre, of rainfall between Sunday, 17th December and Monday, 18th December - literally washed away villages, killing six persons and leaving tens of thousands marooned on rooftops, surviving on air-dropped food packets and awaiting rescue. No doubt rain was heavy, however the disaster was man made because of poor planning and maintenance of irrigation systems and poor storm water drainage mechanism. More such disasters are going to occur in the near future because of global warming and changing pattern of rainfall. It is time the city planners create resilient towns and cities to reduce the damage and human sufferings.
- Dr.Sanjay Banerji in his blog writes on Adjusting Entries in Financial Accounting
- Shri.Rangarajan, translates a few shlokas from the rare book on Ramanathaswami Temple
- Dr.A.Abirami, Programme Officer of the C.P.R. Environmental Educational Center, Chennai writes on the herbal plant – Punarnava (Hogweed)
- In Eco-tourism, a story of E-Rickshaw Driver Shri.Subramani admitting the patient who had an attack of Paralysis to the hospital
- In Social capital - Teertha Poojas, Celebration of Gita Jayanthi, Prize Distribution function for the winners of School competitions, SHG competitions, Collection of sacred Waters from Rameswaram for Ayodhya’s Sri Rama temple consecration, Webinars and finally newsletter by the students and for the students of Rameswaram
With best wishes,
Editorial TeamGreen Rameswaram Project
Mahabeer Dharmasala
Rameswaram - 623526
Tamilnadu.
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Financial Accounting 13 - Adjusting Entries
Bala Sir welcomed the ladies for the next session on ‘Adjusting Entries’. He drew their attention to the Income and Expenditure statement they had prepared earlier for APS for the month of October 2021. It is reproduced below for convenience.
A Rare book - Dhevaiula
on Ramanathaswami
This classical work on Sri Ramanatha Swami of Rameswaram was composed by “Palapattadai Chokkanatha Pillai”. This work was discovered by Dr.U.Ve.Saminatha Iyer after comparing multiple versions. He also wrote a commentary on this rare text.
With the blessings of Lord Ramanatha Swami, Mother Parvathavardhini & Lord Rama, here is an attempt to provide a reasonable translation of this work, in English. Any error can be ascribed to me.
Herbal Garden (Muligai Vanam)
Hogweed (Siriyamookurattai)
Distribution and Habitat
Participatory Eco-Tourism
Green Rameswaram Trust
E-Autos reached out to 11,186 pilgrims. Out of which, we have provided free services to Senior citizens 79 nos., children 175 nos. and differently-abled 15 nos.
One of the pilgrim got Paralytic attack near the Temple’s south tower. Our E-Rickshaw Driver Shri.Subramani admitted the pilgrim to the temple hospital immediately. Now the patient is recovering. Pilgrims form Nagercoil thanked our E-Rickshaw driver for their quick services
Social Capital
Green Rameswaram Trust
Teertha Pooja
Our work of involving community in doing Teertha poojas is going on smoothly. SHG members, E-auto drivers and Yoga participants are trying to take the ownership of the programme. In this month, we could carry out Teertha poojas at 17 Traditional water bodies with 191 volunteers participating in the activity. The details are given below.
Green Rameswaram newsletter (Tamil)
From students ..
39th issue – November 2023
