Posts Tagged sourashtra
February 22, 2009 | General
The Sourashtra Community has its own language and script. The Sourastra script looks very much like Tamil script, although you can also find an infusion of Telegu and Devanagiri alphabets in it. It is closely related to the Gurato language also. This script began development towards the latter part [...]
February 22, 2009 | Marriages
Sourashtrians follow the practices of the Vaishanvite cult for all the customs and rituals. The wedding rituals and customs are still followed by all members of the community.
The procedure is as follows.
Nowra Nowri Seelariya
Phool Function or Vida Paan Machulariya and Boulas
Ghetti Kellariyo
Muhur [...]
February 22, 2009 | Entertainment, Music
During the early 1960s, the Sourashtrians contributed to Tamil movies. You would be familiar with one of the mostbeautiful actress, Venniradai Nirmala. She belongs to the Sourashtra community in Madurai.
M.N. Rajam and Devadas are other notable artists from the Sourashtra community.
It is also nota [...]
February 22, 2009 | Relationships
More translations:
Father’s elder brother & his wife – Mottobo & Motombo
Father’s younger brother & his wife – Nannobo & Nannambo
Mother’s elder brother & his wife – Mamo & Mami
Mother’s younger brother & his wife - Mamo & Mami
Father&# [...]
February 22, 2009 | Relationships
Here are some easy translations that I have compiled.
Father – Bo
Mother – Ambo
Elder Sister – Bei
Younger Sister – Mai
Elder brother – Dhadho
Younger brother – Bhai
Husband – Dhallo
Wife – Bail
Daughter – Bedi
Son – Bedo
Uncle – Mamo
Aunty – Mami
Sister-in-law – Bhavi
Brot [...]
February 6, 2009 | Marriages
Sourashtrians dwelling in South India are very religious and pious. In some of our Sourashtra families Godandam is a traditional prayer performed by the bridegroom on the day of Devgas. Some of the popular families in Madurai who perform this ritual are those of Musathins, Juttins, Gendane & Put [...]
January 22, 2009 | General
Rava Kesari,Muddha Pongal,Vado,Idli,Coffee for breakfast followed by a heavy nine course meals with Pasam as dessert for lunch…Joman, Joman, Joman … Our community is famous for frequent get together. We like good food, rich in taste and calories too! That’s one of our weaknesses, maybe.
When [...]
January 20, 2009 | Entertainment
Recently I saw the Tamil Movie, Abhiyum Naanum. The story revolves around a small family of father, mother and daughter. These Characters are portrayed by actors Prakashraj, Aishwarya and Trisha. Kudos to the director, Radhamohan who has once again made a decent movie worthwhile seeing with the fami [...]
January 13, 2009 | Music
Thanks to Vishvesh Obla for this POP song in Sourashtra.
His comments on the song:
” This is a folk song in Sourashtra Language that used to be sung in Sourashtra (I found it Dr.Ucida Norihiko’s book ‘Oral Literature of the Sourashtrans’). I was struck by the liveliness of it [...]
January 11, 2009 | Business
For the past one year or even more, the availability of Electricity in Tamilnadu has been inadequate, to put it mildly. The T.N.E.B. has been struggling to cope with the crisis without acknowledging the real situation till about Middle of 2008. Whollo Whollo representation Keri, Pressure Diyether ( [...]
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