Enjoyed your programs from here in CA through Mp3 downloads. Please consider podcasting it. You can easily do it by registering it with www.podcastalley.com or
www.feedburner.com. Would help immensely people like us who have iPods and get automatic updates on our iPods. You will get a wider distribution from an ad revenue
point of view. Keep up the good work! Regards Narasimhan Aug, 7, 2006
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Mr&Mrs Balanethirem just now I went through your site. It is excellant. Really i had a very good time when I was with A.R.Rahman. Thank you for posting my photo with the
Mayor of Ypsilanti. I will be with you always. - Cello Sekar (Rahman Troupe) May 4, 2006
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Congratulations! Viji and Balanethiram for successfully completing 1-year of broadcasting Tamil radio programs through Tamil Amudham.
With best wishes - Rajaraman & Ranjani (in Kadhambam, Feb issue of Tamil Sangam, Michigan)
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Actually I should have eaten Kalyana Sappadu in India now. Unfortunately I missed. Here I did not miss anything after hearing your Jan 15th radio program It was very good
and nice. After so many days I went to your kitchen and dug your sappadu. I found so many items there. You arranged all the items on the table in which I liked the most the
first item. I am proud of you both. Lakshmi Sundararaman, Maryland
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You both are doing awesome job. Keep it up - Uma Venkatraman, Columbus, OH
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We recently found your web site and are listening to it, when we get time. Our son loves the stories. - Kannan Nagaraja, Pembroke Pines, FL (Suburb of Miami)
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Tamil Amudham Program summa nach-chunu irruku.... - Mani Kandan,India
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Thanks for delivering us all Pongal Virundhu by air while celebrating the first year anniversary of Tamil Amudham . Pongal can't get any more tastier than this. As usual, there
were variety of songs (mouth-watering dishes) to suit our tastes with some non-veg entrees. Mariyathai Raman story added additional flavor to the treat. We wish Tamil
Amudham all the best for continued service. - Aravind Ramesh, MI
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We are truly proud to hear of your ‘thamiz amutham’ accomplishment and service. We have spent many hours now listening to the archived programs. This is so awe
inspiring for us. Words will not suffice to describe the emotions. The amount of self motivation, hard work and enthusiasm that should have gone behind this should be
enormous. You both have certainly accomplished a ‘magnum opus’ that should give your great satisfaction for years to come.
The diction and delivery, the mix of sounds and the timing are all so professional. I am not surprised by the high quality of music selection and the suitable info sharing behind
each piece. This is a great treat to area tamil music lovers. Please do keep up the great work. If there is any way I can be of help please do let me know.
Radio is India was nearly dead, thanks to TV and their serials. The recent liberalization of FM waves is all set to bring radio back to glory (we need something to cool our
tempers during the long stops at the busy roads). The radio will need great enthusiastic people like you to bring back quality levels to match the Ceylon radio of yore.
Thiruppathy & Maheswari Srinivasan, Bangalore
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Mariayathai Raman story was excellent. Please broadcast all the stories in the series - Aravind Ramesh, MI
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Dr.Balanethiram,
I had a fantastic time in listening to the program thru wpon.com. This was the first time I listened to it. Srinivasan, Prasanna - Toledo, OH
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Thun Muyarchi ondru,
Pirar Muyarchi ondru,
yirandum kalanda muyarchi ondru,
yim Moondrum serndhu ondraghi,
ortharutharuke andri palarukkum payan pada
padupadum Balanethraththirku yengal PUTHANDU Asi! - Harihara Subbiah, Canton, MI.
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Dear Mrs Viji & Mr. Balanethiram,
Our heartiest congratulations to you on the 50th week of Tamil Amudham!! We really appreciate all your sincere efforts to regale and educate the Tamil speaking friends of
our community and we wish you continued success in all your endeavors. Ganga, Rajkumar, Krithika & Akshaya, MI
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I have been an occasional listener of your program and immensely enjoy it! Keep up the good work - Hari Prasad, Troy, MI
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I heard your Thennali Raman story. In fact, i heard it a few minutes back. The theme of the story is quite nice ( i.e. helping others will help us). The way you narrated is also
quite good. V.S.Srinivasan, New Delhi
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My dear Raja-
What a wonderful gift you have given us! I listened to the interview yesterday. It is just fabulous. I regret not having gotten close to your father with you when I was in Ann
Arbor. This interview should open every one's eyes to see your father for what he stood for.
As I listened to this, I could not help thinking how a son can repay the debt to his father for the legacy. You have adequately paid your debt with this interview! The things about
this interview (so far that I have heard) that I am really taken are:
Your statement that your father drew inspiration from his mother. What a statement! Did you have interactions with your paternal grandmother? What was she like?
Your own familiarity with father's poems ('songs'). You have let your father's poetry enter your blood and heart and that is obvious.
I was taken by this interview so much that I have been doing Google-searches on your father. Found several references. Have not located a picture of his painting of King
George V coronation. Do you have it? Is there jpg file you may consider sharing?
This leads to the question: did your father actually sing the songs he wrote? May be the rest of the interview may throw more light. Your explanation of talai nimirndu nillaDA is
absolutely wonderful.
respectful regards Dr. C.M. Venkatachalam, San Diego
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Dear Raja
Your speech on Kavignar Ramalingam Pillai was excellent. We have also (at least I) learnt a lot about Kavignar that were not in the print. Congratulations; we were very
proud of your presentation on Kavignar. Best wishes Mr. & Mrs. Ranganathan, Maryland.
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Hi Uncle,
This was a lovely interview. I learn't quite a bit about Namakkal Kavignar from this interview, and feel privileged that I knew him and have met him when I was a child.
Latha Desikan, New York
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Hi Raja:
You have done a marvelous job of narrating your dad's principles, Gandhian discipline, his artistic and writing talents. Also you had mentioned about your
grandma who was the very first influential person. I was touched by it.
You were so humble when you mentioned your experience with Nehru. What an experience! Not too many people can say that. Overall you have done an excellent
presentation of your father. I don't think many young people know how great your dad was. I am glad that Detroit Tamil Amudham radio recognized your dad's greatness and
broadcasted the program by interviewing you.
We are all very proud of your work and I respect your modesty and politeness.
Anbudan, Vimala Subbaiah, Los Angeles, CA
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Dear Mr. Raja
The prog. was very good and nobody will believe by just listening to your voice and clarity in pronounciation that you had been out of India since 1965 or so [I guess]and living
in US. Really the prog. was excellent. I was happy that what all I admired in your father's poems you have mentioned and there is no doubt about Kavingner Ramalingam Pillaii
's poems have won the admiration of near and dear and everyone.
Kavigner Subbu Arumugam and his sister have added taste for the prog. with their music. The song KaththiyinRi RaththaminRi popularised your father in the minds of the
public. No doubt about it Balanethram has made the prog. a great success by his anchoring the prog. with apt questions. My congratulations for you and the prog. coordinator
Mr. Balanethiram. With Regards Alarmelu Rishi, Chennai, India
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Tamil Amudham is the best program and we are truly enjoying the music Mythili Srinivasan, Rochester Hills, MI
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P susheela program was great! Dr Rangaswamy, Rochester Hills, Michigan
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I listened to Namakkal Raja's program in Tamilamudham and it was very interesting! I hear compliments from many friends about your good work! Congratulations!
Somalay Somasundaram, Avondale, PA
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This is Vidhya (your old student) and amma...We are very glad to see your progress..This site is good . Our best wishes for your further progress
Vidhya and Mrs. Renuka (cousin of Cine Actress Mrs.Nalini), Chennai, India
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Beautiful and captivating. Never expected such a nice program/informations from U.S.A. Shivakumar - Kolkatta,
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Normally I do not listen to my own recorded speeches or video. I am glad that I listened to your program. You have done a great job in editing and integrating the interview in a
very entertaining manner -- Dr. Ramalingam Raja, Ann Arbor, MI
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Dear Balanethiram and Viji:
I would like to congratulate you both for your October 16,05 Tamil Amudham program The highlight was the interview you had with Dr.R.Raja on Namakkal Kavignar Sri
Ramalingam Pillai. For persons of my age who lived in Tamil Nadu in early fifties, Kavignar meant Ramalingam Pillai. His simple compositions were quite inspiring. They
inspired earlier the Freedom Movement. He himself 'fought for the freedom of India", and suffered. He was of course one of the most patriotic proud and at the same time
humble Tamilian. He imbibed the best of Vedic and Tamil culture and these aspects were conveyed in simple but chaste Tamil through his poetry. He lived a simple life. My
own interest in Tamil poetry and literature(in the fifties) grew partly because of Namakkal Kavignar. That you chose to have a program dedicated to such a great person is
highly commendable. It was a high quality program: the right questions were asked gently and excellent replies in beautiful Tamil narration were given by Dr. Raja. A person
who did not know of Namakkal Kavignar previously would have, by listening to this program learnt about a great Indian Tamil Poet of impeccable qualities of head and heart.
For persons who knew previously about Namakkal Kavignar, Dr. Raja revealed several new aspects of greatness of Namakkal Kavignar. Very often we have seen that sons
and daughters of great personalities don't seem to know or appreciate the eternal values of these personalities & don't have the pride of such inheritance. Dr. Raja is a
worthy son of the great Kavignar. Not only he seems to be a great authority on his father, but he himself is a poet (as I infer from the "Thanthaiku Anjali", that he sang). It
should be a pleasure to all Tamil lovers that a great tradition is being continued in a far off land Please convey my thanks and congratulations to him.
Once again I congratulate you both: Try to have such high quality programs in future also. Regards. D.Sundararaman, Maryland.
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