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This year for Pongal celebrations (called as Makara Sankranti in north India) we distributed 2,000 sugarcane sticks to visitors at our ashram in Chennai. Makara Sankranti is one of the most auspicious days of the year in the Hindu calendar. In South India it is a harvest festival, and traditionally the first rice of the season is boiled and offered to the Sun god in the form of Sakarai Pongal (sweetened rice). It also marks the beginning of Uttarayana, the six month northward movement of the Sun.
Professor K. Ramasubramanian, son of R. Krishnamurthy Sastri, former Principal of Sanskrit College, Chennai (who was honoured with the President’s award last year) was in the city recently on the occasion of the 900th birth anniversary celebration of the great Indian mathematician of 12th century, Bhaskaracharya. Currently employed in IIT, Mumbai, Prof. Ramasubramanian, a Masters in Physics, delivered a lecture on the ‘Lila of Leelavati’.
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