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9525 Miramar Rd, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 January 2015 Issue 1 1 January 2015 Balabhavan Coordinators Sangeetha Prahalad Vidhya Raghunathan Shankar Parasaram Kumar Gowda [email protected] Class Coordinators Super-Senior Class: Lavanya Kadiyala [email protected] Senior Class: Anupama Rajagopalan Sushma Natarajan [email protected] Junior Class: Rajashree Balaji Venkatesh Krishnan [email protected] Toddler Class: Archana Sampath Ashvini Yoganarasimha [email protected] Registration coordinator: Kumar Gowda Newsletter Coordinator: Krishna Meduri [email protected] ------------------------------------- Newsletter Editors Keshav Tadimeti Sankaran Ramanarayanan DAMODAR RIVER Damodar river flows across the Indian States of West Bengal and Jharkhand. In some local languages, the river is called Dhamuda, ‘damu’ means sacred and ‘da’ means water. Once upon a time, the river was know as Bengal’s Sorrow due to its ravaging floods in the plains of West Bengal. Now, it is under control due to the construction of several dams across the river. The river is 563 kms long and has a number of tributaries and sub-tributaries. It originates in the Chhotanagpur hills in Bihar and flows through one of the richest mineral belts in the world before draining into the Hooghly river in Calcutta. Many thermal power plants and mining factories dot the valley along the Damodar river. The Damodar valley spans about 9357 square miles including districts such as Ramgarh in Jharkhand and Bardhaman in West Bengal. The Ramgarh and the Bardhaman districts are home to many holy places. Rajrappa is a waterfall and a Hindu pilgrimage center in the Ramgarh district. It attracts about 3000 people daily and is home to the Chhinnamasta temple where the headless deity of goddess Chhinnamasta stands on the body of Kamadeva and Rati in a lotus bed. The Bardhaman district of the Damodar valley has many holy places such as the 108 Shiva Lingam temples built in 1788 and the Sabarmangala temple which is said to contain the remnants of Sati’s body. Here, a week long festival is celebrated on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri. The Konkaleshwari Kali mandir is also situated here. Here, the statue of goddess Kali is made of stone and the temple is said to be 200 years old and is revered as the sacred shrine of the Shakti sect of Hinduism. -By Shekar Krishnamoorthy BBC 2015 Announcements: Namaste Bala Bhavan Families, Happy New Year! We would like to welcome our existing Bala Bhavan families and our new families joining us in 2015. The Welcome document and the BB Calendar for 2015 were sent out this week. The welcome document has details regarding the program guidelines, contact information, syllabus outline, useful resources and FAQs for parents and volunteers. The Calendar lists all the classes for the entire year including details about class topics and volunteer assignments for shlokas, bhajans, stories etc. We would like to thank all the volunteers, parents and children for your support of the Bala Bhavan program. BBC Team ……………………………………………. January Birthdays: Toddlers: Shridha Krishnan Junior Anirudh Srikumar Vemuri Hamsa Venkat Kamakshi Sridhar Sana G Murthy Tanya Mandyam Seniors: Abhav Paneerselvam Abhiram Manda Anirudh Yadavalli Vinay Rajagopalan Super Seniors: Rachana Madhukara Sarthak Madan BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTER VEDIC CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO
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9525 Miramar Rd, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 January 2015 Issue 1
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January 2015
Balabhavan Coordinators
Sangeetha Prahalad Vidhya Raghunathan Shankar Parasaram
Kumar Gowda [email protected]
Class Coordinators
Super-Senior Class: Lavanya Kadiyala
Senior Class: Anupama Rajagopalan
Sushma Natarajan [email protected]
Junior Class:
Rajashree Balaji Venkatesh Krishnan
Toddler Class:
Archana Sampath Ashvini Yoganarasimha
Registration coordinator:
Kumar Gowda
Newsletter Coordinator:
Krishna Meduri [email protected]
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Newsletter Editors
Keshav Tadimeti
Sankaran
Ramanarayanan
DAMODAR RIVER Damodar river flows across the Indian States of West Bengal and Jharkhand. In some local languages, the river is called Dhamuda, ‘damu’ means sacred and ‘da’ means water. Once upon a time, the river was know as Bengal’s Sorrow due to its ravaging floods in the plains of West Bengal. Now, it is under control due to the construction of several dams across the river. The river is 563 kms long and has a number of tributaries and sub-tributaries. It originates in the Chhotanagpur hills in Bihar and flows through one of the richest mineral belts in the world before draining into the Hooghly river in Calcutta. Many thermal power plants and mining factories dot the valley along the Damodar river. The Damodar valley spans about 9357 square miles including districts such as Ramgarh in Jharkhand and Bardhaman in West Bengal.
The Ramgarh and the Bardhaman districts are home to many holy places. Rajrappa is a waterfall and a Hindu pilgrimage center in the Ramgarh district. It attracts about 3000 people daily and is home to the Chhinnamasta temple where the headless deity of goddess Chhinnamasta stands on the body of Kamadeva and Rati in a lotus bed. The Bardhaman district of the Damodar valley has many holy places such as the 108 Shiva Lingam temples built in 1788 and the Sabarmangala temple which is said to contain the remnants of Sati’s body. Here, a week long festival is celebrated on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri. The Konkaleshwari Kali mandir is also situated here. Here, the statue of goddess Kali is made of stone and the temple is said to be 200 years old and is revered as the sacred shrine of the Shakti sect of Hinduism.
-By Shekar Krishnamoorthy
BBC 2015 Announcements: Namaste Bala Bhavan Families, Happy New Year! We would like to welcome our existing Bala Bhavan families and our new families joining us in 2015. The Welcome document and the BB Calendar for 2015 were sent out this week. The welcome document has details regarding the program guidelines, contact information, syllabus outline, useful resources and FAQs for parents and volunteers. The Calendar lists all the classes for the entire year including details about class topics and volunteer assignments for shlokas, bhajans, stories etc. We would like to thank all the volunteers, parents and children for your support of the Bala Bhavan program. BBC Team …………………………………………….
January Birthdays:
Toddlers: Shridha Krishnan Junior
Anirudh Srikumar Vemuri Hamsa Venkat
Kamakshi Sridhar Sana G Murthy
Tanya Mandyam Seniors:
Abhav Paneerselvam Abhiram Manda
Anirudh Yadavalli Vinay Rajagopalan
Super Seniors:
Rachana Madhukara Sarthak Madan
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