ISW Cultural and Language School’s Tamil class celebrated its "first

ever Pongal Celebrations" at the India Center on Sunday, Jan 11 2015.

It's part of our theme of educating the language and culture, to the

kids who learn in a fun-filled environment.

The entire ISW Tamil class students participated in this colorful

event by showcasing their talents through a skit called "4 day Pongal

Celebrations" explaining the 1st day being "Bhogi Pongal", 2nd day

being "Thai Pongal", 3rd day being "Maatu Pongal" and the 4th day

being "Kanum Pongal". Also they displayed their dancing talents

through 3 different folk dances with their traditional costumes.

Especially the boys were able to dance with their own style in the

last dance sequence. We had participants joining this celebration from

Kalaimagal Tamil School and Boston Tamil Church group with a prayer

song and a fusion of dance items.

Our ISW Tamil student's parents provided homemade traditional Pongal

dishes like "Sweet Pongal" and "Venn Pongal." Besides these main

courses, wide varieties of other south Indian dishes were served to

the audience and guests. It was wonderful to have a warm/colorful

event followed by hot south Indian feast.  It was great that the

students and the parents for supported this event in spite of frigid

weather condition on that day.

More info on Tamil Language class at ISW:

Registrations for Tamil classes on Sundays mornings are open in May

for September 2015 and children six years and older can enroll in the

ISW Cultural and Language School.  The curriculum is based on

"American Tamil Academy - http://amtaac.org/" which is a well known

organization with in the USA which also provides accreditation. ISW

Cultural and Language Tamil classes are proud to have an affiliation

with this American Tamil Academy by providing world class curriculum

to the Boston / Metro west area communities.  A typical class at ISW -

India Center at this Shrewsbury facility includes yoga, a cultural

assembly & one hour language class. For more info please visit the

iswonline.org website.