Deepavali Holiday Event - Visual Highlights An important information from the Election Committee was emailed to the 2023 eligible voters on Dec 01 2023. Click here for  update from the Election Committee - Dated Dec 01 2023. Click here  to access the latest Election FAQ document - Dated Dec 05 2023. An important information from the Election Committee was emailed to the 2023 eligible voters on Dec 01 2023. Click here for  update from the Election Committee - Dated Dec 01 2023. Click here  to access the latest Election FAQ document - Dated Dec 05 2023.

IMPORTANT RESPONSE FROM THE ELECTION COMMITTEE CHAIR (11/07/2023)There are few emails requesting the release of Board results. The Election Committee would like to provide the following response.The current President has expressed his concern for the excess and illegal activities of some of the Board candidates. The Election Committee sought guidance from the Board because bylaws require any legal opinion can only be obtained by the Board. I wish to note that the Election Committee is not authorized to seek legal guidance. May I refer you to our Bylaws:5.1.1.3. The Board shall be responsible for all legal aspects of the Association. The Board sought legal opinion and the guidance received was not to announce the election results pending investigation. The Board has informed that they will undertake and manage the investigation and the associated DUE PROCESS.We have already communicated that ‘The results will be opened by the Secretary in my presence and that of the two Senior leaders of TAGDV, Dr. Ramachandran Sivakumar and Prof. Raj Mutharasan.'  No one else, including the other two Election Committee members and the Board/EC were exposed to any of the polling data.  The other two Election Committee members and the Board/EC were only informed of the results contemporaneously with the general membership.The Board results will be released in two weeks. There will be no further response from the Election Committee on the issue of announcement of Board results.Regards,T. JustinChair, Election Committee 2023 Election Results for Executive Committee 2024-2025 (11/06/2023)The results for the Elections were opened by the Secretary Mrs. Leena Paramanandam in my presence and that of the two Senior leaders of TAGDV, Dr. Ramachandran Sivakumar and Prof. Raj Mutharasan.Per my earlier communication, the results of the Board are being withheld for two weeks pending investigation.It has been an honor to serve in the Election Committee and all three of us thank TAGDV for this great opportunity.Congratulations and best wishes to the elected candidates.Regards,T. JustinChair - Election Committee 2023   Vice President / துணைத்  தலைவர்******************************************  Saravanan Krishnan சரவணன் கிருஷ்ணன் wins  with 56.30% of the vote. Treasurer /  பொருளாளர்*********************************      Shakthiprian Shanmugam Ramakrishnan /  சக்திப்ரியன் சண்முகம் ராமகிருஷ்ணன்  wins  with 51.61% of the vote. EC - Member at Large / செயற்குழு உறுப்பினர்******************************************************      Bhuvaneshwari Natarajan Gunasekaranபுவனேஸ்வரி நடராஜன் குணசேகரன்win with 17.93%         Thamilinian S Kதமிழினியன்win with 17.49%Vasudevan Varadharajanவாசுதேவன் வரதராஜன்win with 16.87%        Periyasamy Kanagarajபெரியசாமி கனகராஜ்win with 16.70%Karthik Sundaramகார்த்திக் சுந்தரம்win with 16.03%

TAGDV Elections 2023 Greetings from the TAGDV Election Committee, 2023. This election committee has been operational since Sep, 2023. We request your full support, understanding and cooperation in conducting a fair, representative and comprehensive election between November 1 - 4, 2023. Online Voting is underway!!Please check your email for the ballot. If you are a valid member and but have not received your ballot, please send an email to electioncommittee2023@tagdv.org by 5 PM on Nov 02 2023.1)All update of emails done after the cutoff time on Oct 30, 2023 till 5 PM today (Nov 2, 2023) , will get the email to vote around 10 PM today (Nov 2, 2023)2) For any updates after 5:00 pm today (Nov 2, 2023) need to come In-person for the General Body meeting on Nov 4, 2023, and their membership details will be duly validated during the General Body Meeting and email ballot will be sent to the updated email. There will be no Paper ballots.3) No updates will be done for any emails after the General Body Meeting ends. On-line Voting will be available till 5:00 PM on Saturday.TAGDV Election Committee kindly requests your patience while they are diligently working on this meticulous and time consuming process. Please visit the Elections FAQs section for more details. The following are the Final Candidates for the TAGDV Administrative Body Position. There will be Online Elections for the following Positions : Vice-President, Treasurer, EC - Member at Large, Board of Trustees   The Candidates for President, Secretary will be ratified during the Annual General Body. ADMINISTRATIVE BODY NUMBER OF POSITIONS FINAL CANDIDATE LIST TERM (Years) President 1 Bharathi Ponnappan 2 Vice-President 1 Saravanan Krishnan Vasanthi Karthikeyan 2 Secretary 1 Vani Lalmohan 2 Treasurer 1 Ravichandran Raju Shakthiprian Shanmugam Ramakrishnan 2 EC - Member at Large 5 Bhuvaneshwari Natarajan Gunasekaran Karthik Sundaram Periyasamy Kanagaraj Sundar Govindarajan Thamilinian S K Vasudevan Varadharajan 2 Board of Trustees 4 Baskar Chinnusamy Chandrasekar Shanmugavadivelu Siva Prasath Suresh K Paramasivam Vijay Selvaraj 4 Tamil School Board 3 No Nominations Received. We will have floor nominations for this position. 2

Candidates for the TAGDV Administrative Body Positions Greetings from the TAGDV Election Committee, 2023. This election committee has been operational since Sep, 2023. We request your full support, understanding and cooperation in conducting a fair, representative and comprehensive election between November 1 - 4, 2023   The following are the dates/deadlines for the election.    EVENT DEADLINE Last day to verify membership Information Oct 25, 2023 @ 11:59 pm EST Last day to file nominations  Oct 25, 2023 @ 11:59 pm EST Last day for withdrawal of nominations Oct 29, 2023 @ 10:00 am EST Announcement of the Final list of Candidates  Oct 30, 2023 @ 10:30 am EST Live Debate Oct 30, 2023 @ 7:00 pm EST Election Date(s) November 1 - 4, 2023 Please visit the Elections FAQs section for more details. The following are the Candidates for the TAGDV Administrative Body Position:ADMINISTRATIVE BODYNUMBER OF POSITIONSINITIAL CANDIDATE LISTTERM (Years)President1Bharathi Ponnappan2Vice-President1Saravanan KrishnanVasanthi Karthikeyan2Secretary1Vani Lalmohan2Treasurer1Ravichandran RajuShakthiprian Shanmugam Ramakrishnan2EC - Member at Large5Bhuvaneshwari Natarajan Gunasekaran Karthik Sundaram Periyasamy Kanagaraj Senthilkumar Subramanian Sundar Govindarajan Thamilinian S K Vasudevan Varadharajan2Board of Trustees4Baskar Chinnusamy Chandrasekar Shanmugavadivelu Siva Prasath Suresh K Paramasivam Vijay Selvaraj4Tamil School Board3No Nominations Received2

Candidates for the TAGDV Administrative Body Positions Greetings from the TAGDV Election Committee, 2023. This election committee has been operational since Sep, 2023. We request your full support, understanding and cooperation in conducting a fair, representative and comprehensive election between November 1 - 4, 2023   Please visit the Elections FAQs section posted in TAGDV Website for more details. ELECTION FAQS The following are the dates/deadlines for the election. EVENT DEADLINE Last day to verify membership Information Oct 25, 2023 @ 11:59 pm EST Last day to file nominations Oct 25, 2023 @ 11:59 pm EST Last day for withdrawal of nominations Oct 29, 2023 @ 10:00 am EST Announcement of the Final list of Candidates Oct 30, 2023 @ 10:30 am EST Live Debate Oct 30, 2023 @ 7:00 pm EST Election Date(s) November 1 - 4, 2023   The following are the Candidates for the TAGDV Administrative Body Position: ADMINISTRATIVE BODY POSITION NUMBER OF POSITIONS INITIAL CANDIDATE LIST TERM (Years) President 1 Bharathi Ponnappan 2 Vice-President 1 Saravanan Krishnan   Vasanthi Karthikeyan 2 Secretary 1 Vani Lalmohan 2 Treasurer 1 Ravichandran Raju   Shakthiprian Shanmugam Ramakrishnan 2 EC - Member at Large 5 Bhuvaneshwari Natarajan Gunasekaran   Karthik Sundaram   Periyasamy Kanagaraj   Senthilkumar Subramanian   Sundar Govindarajan   Thamilinian S K   Vasudevan Varadharajan   2 Board of Trustees 4 Baskar Chinnusamy   Chandrasekar Shanmugavadivelu   Siva Prasath   Suresh K Paramasivam   Vijay Selvaraj   4 Tamil School Board 3 No Nominations Received 2 Best Regards, TAGDV Election Committee - 2023

Announcement of TAGDV Elections 2023Greetings from the TAGDV Election Committee, 2023. This election committee has been operational since Sep, 2023. We request your full support, understanding and cooperation in conducting a fair, representative and comprehensive election between November 1 - 4, 2023The TAGDV members are requested to validate their membership information and register any missing information. Click here to fill in your details.The following are the dates/deadlines for the election.EVENTDEADLINELast day to verify membership InformationOct 25, 2023Last day to file nominations Oct 25, 2023Last day for withdrawal of nominationsOct 29, 2023Announcement of the Final list of Candidates Oct 31, 2023Election Date(s)November 1 - 4, 2023A RECEIPT TIME OF MIDNIGHT (EST) IS IMPOSED ON ALL DEADLINES.The following are the positions open for election:ADMINISTRATIVE BODY POSITIONNUMBER OF POSITIONSTERM (Years)President12Vice-President12Secretary12Treasurer12EC - Member at Large52Board of Trustees44Tamil School Board32To encourage more participation in TAGDV Administration, The 2023 TAGDV Election committee recommends the following suggestionsTAGDV should provide a platform to record the volunteer hours in a systematic manner.The TAGDV election contestants can seek endorsements from past TAGDV officers, EC Members & Board of Trustees and publish in their Profile with their consent.We are appreciative of your volunteer efforts and it is only through your active participation, will we be able to continue building a strong, active and successful association.The following are the qualifications of contestants mandated by the TAGDV bylaws:1. Board of Trustees:a. MUST be a TAGDV life Memberb. MUST have served on the TAGDV Executive Committeec. In the extraordinary circumstance of unavailable members to satisfy the above, any life member during the past 5 years is eligible for nomination (5.1.2 of Bylaw)2. TAGDV President / Vice-President / Secretary / Treasurer / Member at Large:a. MUST be a TAGDV member as of August 1, 2023b. A member of the Association shall not contest for more than one position on the Executive Committee or the Board in a given year. (6.4 of the ByLaw).3. Tamil School Board:a. MUST be a TAGDV member as of Aug 1, 2023b. SHALL have served TAGDVClick here for the Nomination formClick here for CANDIDATE CODE OF CONDUCTAll communications regarding the elections must be addressed to theelection committee at electioncommittee2023@tagdv.org The Election Committee reserves the right to respond to election-related queries at a time it deems appropriate.

Announcement from Sangamam Editorial Team வணக்கம்!! தமிழ் மொழியின் மீதான ஆர்வத்தை ஊக்குவிக்கவும் உறுப்பினர்களின் திறமைகளை வெளிப்படுத்தவும் நம் தமிழ்ச்சங்கத்தில் இருந்து சங்கமம் இதழ் வெளியிடப்படுகிறது. கீழ்கண்ட தலைப்புகளில் இருந்து தமிழில் கட்டுரை, நூல் பரிந்துரை, தொடர்கள், கவிதை, சிறுகதை, இலக்கியத்தில் நகைச்சுவை, நாட்டுப்புறப் பாடல்கள் மற்றும் ஓவியம் ஆகிய படைப்புகளை அனுப்பலாம். பெற்றோர்கள் தங்கள் குழந்தைகளையும் ஊக்கப்படுத்தி குழந்தைகள் தாங்களே உருவாக்கும் படைப்புகளை மட்டுமே அனுப்புமாறு கேட்டுக் கொள்கிறோம். படைப்புகளுக்கான விதிகள் : 1. படைப்புகள் அனைத்து வயதினருக்கும் ஏற்றவாறு இருக்க வேண்டும். 2. சுதந்திர பேச்சுரிமையை மதிக்கும் அதே வேளையில், உங்கள் படைப்புகள் யார் மனதையும் புண்படுத்தும் வகையில் இருக்க கூடாது. 3. படைப்புகள் அனைத்தும் உங்கள் சொந்த படைப்பாக இருக்க வேண்டும். 4. படைப்புகள் அனைத்தும் மூன்று பக்கத்துக்கு மிகாமல் இருக்க வேண்டும். 5. படைப்புகள், கருத்துகள் மற்றும் கேள்விகள் sangamam@tagdv.org என்ற மின்னஞ்சலுக்கு அனுப்பலாம். 6. படைப்புகள் அனைத்தும் ஜூன் (June) 30, 2023 தேதிக்குள் அனுப்ப வேண்டுகிறோம். படைப்புகள் பிரசுரிக்கபடுவது சங்கமம் ஆசிரியக் குழுவின் முடிவுக்கு உட்பட்டது. உங்கள் ஆதரவையும் படைப்புகளையும் ஆசிரியக் குழு ஆர்வமுடன் எதிர்பார்த்து காத்திருக்கிறோம். Greetings TAGDV members! Sangamam Magazine is published by our Tamil Sangam to promote interest in Tamil language and showcase the talents of the members. We will be accepting contributions such as Essay, Book recommendation, poetry, short story, comedy in literature, folk songs and drawings in Tamil can be sent from the below suggested topics. We also ask parents to encourage their children to send only works that the children create themselves. Please e-mail your contributions to our editorial committee at the following e-mail address: sangamam@tagdv.org Contributions are subjected to following rules:  1. Content should be appropriate for all age groups. 2. While respecting the right to free speech, content should not offend anyone. 3. Submissions should be your original content. 4. Submissons may not exceed three pages. 5. Submissions,comments and questions can be sent to email id: sangamam@tagdv.org. 6. Submissions should reach by June 30, 2023. Publication of articles is subject to the decision of the Sangamam editorial committee.We eagerly await your support and contributions. Suggested Topics / பரிந்துரைக்கப்பட்ட தலைப்புகள்  1. சிறு கதைகள் 2. சங்க இலக்கியம் பாடல்கள் மற்றும் கட்டுரைகள் 3. நவீன இலக்கியம் 4. அறிவியல் தமிழ் 5. கவிதைகள் 6. சிறுவர் பக்கம் 6.1. சிறுவர் இலக்கியம் 6.2. சிறுவர் கதைகள் 6.3. சிறுவர் ஓவியம் 7. தமிழர் பாரம்பரியம் 7.1 பாரம்பரிய விடுகதைகள் 7.2 நாட்டுப்புறப் பாடல் 8. புலனம் (whatsapp), வலை தளம் (website) / கீச்சகம் (twitter) படித்ததில் பிடித்தது 9. வார்த்தை விளையாட்டு (குறுக்கு எழுத்து) 10. சமையல் குறிப்புக்கள் 11. கேள்விகள் / பதில்கள்

தமிழ்ப் புத்தாண்டு விழா 2023      TAMIL NEW YEAR When: April 29 2023, Saturday 10 AM onwards Where: East High School, 450 Ellis Lane, West Chester, PA 19380 Ticket sales are open and available to book in Regular, Vallal & Sponsor tier options. Click here to reserve your tickets at Sulekha.com. The last day to purchase your tickets will be April 27 2023 Thursday.

Thirukkural & Thamizh Theni Competitions TAGDV EC & School Board are excited to announce that the Thirukkural and Thamizh Theni competitions have been scheduled to be conducted on: Stetson Middle School 1060 Wilmington Pike, West Chester, PA 19382 March 25 2023, Saturday from 12 to 5 PM. For registration click here (Last date for registration is March 20, 2023) For Competition rules and guidelines click here For Syllabus click here Please email thirukkural@tagdv.org for any questions. IMPORTANT EVENT INFO:  1. This is a free event for all TAGDV Members. 2. Participants are asked to bring pencils, erasers, sharpeners. 3. Drop Off Procedure: Due to general venue restrictions, Parents are not allowed to stay and wait at the premises. As soon as you arrive, volunteers will usher the child(ren) to the designated classrooms. 4. Parents, please keep your Photo ID ready to be produced as child(ren) will be signed in and signed out with proper safety protocols. 5. Pick up Procedure: Parents will receive a call from TAGDV volunteers when your child(ren) is ready to be picked up.   வாங்க பேசலாம்!!! Virtual Literary Event - 'தமிழ்த்திரைப்பட பாடல்களில் அகநானூறு'  Register Here   Please join for a lively literary circle discussion on the topic - 'தமிழ்த்திரைப்பட பாடல்களில் அகநானூறு'. Sangam literature have always been a great source of inspiration for Tamil Cinema in all aspects, especially the song lyrics. உங்களுக்கு தெரிந்த திரைப்பட பாடல்களில் சங்ககால பாடல்களை (குறுந்தொகை, நற்றிணை, அகநானூறு, ஐங்குறுநூறு, கலித்தொகை) தழுவி எழுதப்பட்டிருக்கக்கூடிய பாடல்களை பற்றிய ஒப்பீடுகளை கொண்டு வாருங்கள்!!! வாங்க பேசலாம் !! This is a Free event for TAGDV Members. Only members 15+ are allowed to attend this event. For questions, support and help on research on the topic - Please email us at litcircle@tagdv.org TAGDV literary subcommittee is here to help you!

டெலவர் பெருநிலத் தமிழ்ச்சங்கம் நடத்தும் 'தைப்பொங்கல் திருவிழா' வரும் தை மாதம் 15ஆம் நாள் - ஜனவரி 29 2023 ஆம் தேதி காலை 10 மணி முதல் மாலை 5 மணி வரை நடைபெற உள்ளது. தமிழரின் பண்பாட்டையும் உழைப்பின் மேன்மையையும் உலகுக்கு உணர்த்தும் உன்னத திருநாளாம் பொங்கல் திருநாளை கொண்டாடலாம் வாருங்கள்!!! TAGDV Executive Committee is excited to announce  'Thai Pongal Thiruvizha' on Jan 29 2023 Sunday from 10 AM to 5 PM. Venue: Phoenixville Area Middle School Address: 1000 Purple Pride Parkway, Phoenixville, PA 19460 Click here to reserve  your tickets online in advance. TAGDV Member children 14 and under - FREE!!!! (Need advance online reservation) Event Highlights ஜோடி # 1 நடனப் போட்டி  (Jodi #1 Couples Dance Contest) Register Here | Rules and Info தைப்பொங்கல் கோலப் போட்டி (Kolam Contest) Register Here | Rules and Info பானை ஓவியப் போட்டி (Pot Painting Contest) Register Here | Rules and Info முளைப்பாரி ஊர்வலம்  Bring your Mulaippari pots and arrangements and join in a ceremonial procession to celebrate our auspicious harvest festival celebrations. ​ ​கலை நிகழ்ச்சிகள்  (Cultural Events) For Cultural event participations:  If your child attends one of the TAGDV Tamil Schools (DTP(Middletown) DTP (Wilmington), ETP, PMTS) Please reach out to your respective school coordinators to register your children to participate in the cultural programs. For TAGDV members not part of any of the TAGDV schools, please reach out to us at programs@tagdv.org if you have any questions or need clarifications and to register your group participations. மேலும் தைப்பொங்கல் திருவிழாவை இன்னும் சிறப்பாக்க ‘கொஞ்சம் நடிங்க பாஸ்’ நிகழ்ச்சி புகழ் ஆதவன் அவர்களுடன் பொங்கலோ பொங்கும் நகைச்சுவை நேரம்!!