March 2009 SAGE AGASTYA Balabhavan Coordinators BB Announcements: Bharathy Thridandam Nithya Sudhakar Thanks to all the parent Sriram Srinivasan volunteers who have Contact: dedicated their time and
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[email protected] One story about Agastya goes that once the ‘family picnic day’ demons had taken refuge in the ocean and it tentatively towards the end was difficult for the gods to conquer them, so Senior Class: of May and the ‘summer Renuka Krishnan they went to Sage Agastya for help. Then, after camps’ starting in July 2009
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[email protected] Another story has it that two demon brothers, March Birthdays: Ilvala and Vatapi, planned to kill Agastya.