The Tamil community ushered in their New Year celebration on Saturday (April 19). The mega event was organised by Malaysia Hindudharma Maamandram in Brickfields, highlighting the vibrant traditions of their culture.
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00:00Today we are here to celebrate our Tamil New Year. Normally people doesn't know that
00:11Tamil has a new year. See basically they only know we have Taipussam, Deep Hourly and so on.
00:16Our month, Tamil month is Chitare. We call them as a Chitare. It's basically on April 14th.
00:21It's fall on our first calendar, first date of our calendar. This is actually our seventh year
00:26we are doing this and this is a collaboration of about 40 NGOs. All these NGOs, all the temples
00:32around Brickfields have collaborated with us to make this festival, this celebration in grand scale.
00:38Basically here we are promoting our martial arts. In this multilatial country we want to promote
00:44everything. Every ethnic they have their own culture and tradition. So we want to have more
00:49more understanding. That means we want multilatial people to understand who are we, what are we
00:53doing, what is actually Tamil, what is Indian and what is Tamil.
01:06We have our games, our tradition games like Gassing, okay we call it as Bambaram.
01:13Like Pallanguli, we have Pallanguli, Chonka actually and the snake and ladders, Parma Padam. So we want
01:19to bring this back and we want to tell our own Tamil people they have forgotten this. Even playing kites
01:24we have forgotten. So slowly we are bringing, we have about 24 items here and Uriya Dittal that means
01:29breaking the pots. It's something like very unique and mostly here I see a lot of tourists have coming
01:35in and trying to break the pots and also the Tamil achievers in Malaysia we have also exhibited them.
01:42who are they, what is their contribution toward this nation.
01:56We are volunteering as a student at UMHSL in this Tamil Putani celebration. It's a very new experience for
02:02me because I as a student haven't come to such a big event before and this over here there are like
02:08different foods, different types of exhibitions. So it's very new for me. We have tried various
02:15varieties of foods here. For example like Sambar Sadam, it's one of the traditional food. I think
02:19this is the first time I eat here. It's very delicious. We're feeling very happy because all the
02:23Indians are here and we are celebrating with lots of unity and I think this kind of events have to be
02:29celebrated every year in overall Malaysia. This is my second year joining this event. Actually we feel very
02:37happy because you know so many excited things are happening like a competition of column, competition
02:43of this traditional Uli Arittal. So we feel very happy and also this kind of events only we can see
02:51people with the traditional entires. So we feel very happy about it. Especially the food with the Ponggal,
02:58what day, everything they are serving. We go for some prayers only we can see these types of food but
03:06when they're doing some kind of events like this for Putanda, so everything's in one canopy. So we feel
03:13happy we don't need to like go and travel and also we feel happy because many of them you know came,
03:19even the teenagers nowadays they are learning more about our cultures.
03:23Yes.
03:29Chittray puttanaana.
03:30Can you three?
03:32Chittray puttanaana.
03:32Chittray puttanaana.
03:37Chittray puttana.
03:38You