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March 2016

By: Mrs. Sabina Azad

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- Kids zone

Do you know!!!

Egg Hunt With Easter Bunny

INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY

Thirukkural

All about India- Maharashtra Indian Currency

Book review- The Perfect Groom

Contest Entrees

Mark Your Calendar

In and around Charlotte

Festive events

Contact Information

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First Women Leaders: In 1960 Sirivamo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first female elected Premier Minister and in 1974 Isabel Pern of Argentina became the first woman President - one woman had been Acting Head of Gov-ernment and two women Acting Heads of State before that.

When did women first compete in the Olympic Games? Women competed for the first time at the 1900 Games in Paris. Of a total of 997 athletes, 22 women compet-ed in five sports: tennis, sailing, croquet, equestrianism and golf. The IOC is committed to gender equality in sport.

First Women Doctor: Elizabeth Blackwell (18211910), first woman to graduate from medical school in the US; MD 1849, Geneva College, New York. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, (8 February 1831 9 March 1895), first African American female physician in the United States, awarded her M.D. in 1864 by Boston University

First woman to swim the english channel On this day in 1926, on her second attempt, 19-year-old Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the 21

miles from Dover, England, to Cape Griz-Nez across the English Channel, which separates Great Britain from the

northwestern tip of France.

First women's college in world 1837,Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College): It is the oldest (and first) of the Seven Sis-

ters. It is also the oldest school which was established from inception (chartered in 1836) as an institution of high-

er education for women (teaching seminary) that is still a women's college.

Which was the first country to allow women's votes New Zealand was the first country to allow women to vote (in 1893), while the King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

granted women the right to vote in 2011. The United States finally began allowing women to vote in 1920, after

the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

First Women Olympic Boxing title winner Nicola Adams, MBE (born 26 October 1982) is a British boxer and the first woman to win an Olympic boxing title.

The Gold Medal winner at the 2012 Summer Olympics held in London, as of 2015 she is the reigning Olympic

Games, Commonwealth Games and European Games champion at flyweight.

Kids Zone Do You Know?

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Egg Hunt With Easter Bunny

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Notable Women from India who are celebrities as well! This article beats the odds to highlight women who are leaders in their own way, making a Stunning difference in the world that they live in.

KAALAIKARRAMMA (the bull-keeping woman) Picture of Soundaram Ramasamy Meet Soundaram Ramasamy, the only woman bull keeper in Kangeyam, Tamil Nadu. She is a Stud bull keeper, who is a legend in her village Kanthasamipalayam, Kangeyam region, Tiruppur district. Besides, very few men keep stud bulls. Certainly none have such fine Kangeyam specimens.

QUEEN of POIKAAL KUDIRAI- Picture of Kamachi Meet Kamachi, the queen of poikaal kudhirai. A professional folk dancer for 55years, who has been dancing on wooden stilts day and night to keep her family from starving. She danced when she was eight months pregnant, when she was nursing her young children. When they cried, she fed them, and went back to the performance. She has been dancing since she was 11. Now, 55 years later, when she wears her ornate papier-mch horse over her hip and the rich and royal costume, she dances not like the wife, mother and grandmother that she is, but as a Professional and great performer, agile on tall wooden stilts, never missing a single beat! She is indeed a hero to her family and an inspiration to women!

INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY

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Thirukural facts

Thirukural written by Thiruvalluvar consists of three books, the first book on

aram (the way or dharma), the second on porul (material or artah) and the

third on Inbam (joy or Kama)

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All things that good appear will oft have ill success. All evil things prove good for gain of happiness.

(Kural No: 375)

In the acquisition of property, everything favorable becomes unfavorable, and (on

the other hand) everything unfavorable becomes favorable, (through the power of

fate).

Thirukkural

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Maharashtra was in the forefront of the freedom struggle, and it was here that the Indian National Congress was born. A galaxy of leaders from Mumbai and other cities in Maharashtra led the Congress movement under the guidance of Tilak, and later Mahatma Gandhi. Maharashtra was the home of Gandhiji's movement, while Sevagram was the capital of nationalistic India during the Gandhian era. Located in the north centre of Peninsular India, with the command of the Arabian Sea through its port of Mumbai, Maharash-tra has a remarkable physical homogeneity. The dominant physical trait of the State is its plateau character. Maharashtra is a plateau of plateaus, its western upturned rims rising to form the Sahyadri Range parallel to the sea-coast, and its slopes gently descending towards the east and south-east. Arabian Sea guards the western boundary of Maharashtra, while Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh are on the northern side. Chhattisgarh covers the eastern boundary of the State. Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh are on its southern side.

The State has been identified as the country's powerhouse and Mumbai, its capital as the centre point of India's financial and commercial markets. Industrial sector occupies a prominent position in the economy of Maharash-tra. Food products, breweries, tobacco and related products, cotton textiles, textile products, paper and paper products, printing and publishing, rubber, plastic, chemical and chemi-cal products, machinery, electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and transport equipment and parts contribute substantially to the industrial production in the state.

Maharashtra Ellora Caves

Some important tourist centres are: Ajanta, Ellora, Elephanta, Kanheri and Karla caves, Mahabaleshwar, Matheran and Panchgani, Jawhar, Malshejghat, Amboli, Chikaldara, Panhala Hill stations and religious places at Pandharpur, Nasik, Shirdi, Nanded, Audhanagnath, Trimbakeshwar, Tuljapur, Ganpatipule, Bhimashanker, Ha-rihareshwar, Shegaon, Kolhapur, Jejuri and Ambajogai.

All about India- Maharashtra

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Currency Symbol

The symbol of Indian Rupee typifies India's international identi-ty for money transactions and economic strength. The Indian Rupee sign is an allegory of Indian ethos. The symbol is an amalgam of Devanagari "Ra" and the Roman Capital "R" with two parallel horizontal stripes running at the top representing the national flag and also the "equal to" sign. The Indian Rupee sign was adopted by the Government of India on 15th July, 2010. The symbol, conceptualized and designed by Udaya Kumar, a post graduate in Design from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, has been chosen from thousands of concept entries received by the Ministry of Finance through an open competition among resident Indian nationals. The process of establishing and implementing this new identity is underway through various digital technology and computer applications.

Indian Currency

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The Perfect Groom (Book Review)

By Sumeetha Manikandan

This book gives a sneak peak into the Tamilian Lifestyle and Culture. From Mylapore to California, the author has shown the readers the true essence of the saying It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Effectively using a string of characters with rigid and narrow mindset that lurks around in our society, she brings out the very Indian idea of marriage- that of one marrying the family along with ones spouse- very well. This is a sweet love story and accounts of a young married woman who goes through the torments and pangs of her not-so-perfect mar