AFVOA Newletters of Year 2011

Page 9 of 44 ARMED FORCES VETERAN OFFICERS’ASSOCIATION CHENNAI (Est 1994) (Registered Under Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act 1975) Registration Certificate No. 3/2004 Patron Lt Gen C Stindara Rao, PVSM Tele: 24461085 President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Maj Gen Brig Lt Col Lt Col KS Chattaraman, Mohan Thomas, CR Sundar, M Narayanan, EME AOC Madras Engrs Tele: 22348394 Tele: 22294080 Tele: 22290186 Tele: 24488546 No 2 of 2011 Newsletter #02/2011 01 Mar 2011 (FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS ONLY) The next bi-monthly meeting will be held on Sunday, 20 Mar 2011 starting 1800 h. It will be a cultural meet, the venue as usual is the Palm Grove Ecological Park and Sports Complex, Island Grounds. Those who desire to attend the Meeting should intimate the details of persons attending to Lt Col M Narayanan, Ph.: 2448 8546, 98847 54610 before 13 Mar 2011. From the Editorial Team Rejuvenation and Reinvention The Tamil calendar like the very ancient traditional calendars of many states in India and many Asian countries like China follows a 60-year cycle which is related to 5 revolutions of Jupiter according to popular belief, or to 60-year orbit of Nakshatras (stars) as mentioned in Surya Siddhanta. But wait. The 60 years cycle has not been arrived at by the ancients arbitrarily. It has been fixed after a clear study of human nature. Every society will try to reinvent itself once in every cycle of 60 years. If the society is democratic the reinvention process is gradual, not discernable and