MAUK Women's Group celebrated the 101st International Women's day with great pomp and gaiety at Little Ilford Secondary School on 18th March 2012 . The event was a great success with the Women's Group spear-heading the co-ordination of the entire event under the able leadership of Mrs Lakshmi Pillai with background help from the MAUK  volunteers and directors. The programmes staged were very diverse and were interspersed with informative presentations by guest speakers. The talk about 'Indian women in Britain 1600 -1947' by Meenakshi Sharma who has a Masters in South Asian history from the School of African and Asian studies and the talk about 'Organ and blood Donation' by Dr Asha Ashokan  were highly informative.

There was a huge participation from women of all ages. Cinematic dance, classical dance and instrumental music were brilliantly blended with traditional Kerala specialities like  Oppana and Nadodi Nirtham. The yoga demonstration was very inspiring and smoothly executed. The spectacular effort by the women to present the 'Shingari Melam' deserves a lot of appreciation. A fitting tribute to the world renowned women achievers of present and yester years was paid by a beautiful poem penned and recited by Mrs Sicily George.

To stimulate the mind, there were rounds of 'Kusruthi Chodyangal' and an interactive session with the audience.

The day's programmes were wrapped up by a comedy skit which was a modern take of Ramayana replete with songs, dialogues and period costumes.

MAUK thank all the participants, volunteers and audience for making this event a truly wonderful one.

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