Malayalam Wing was established in the year 1996
as a linguistic wing of the Indian Social Club Muscat for the Keralites
community. Since then we have been functioning in the Sultanate
of Oman promoting the rich heritage and culture of Kerala state
and our mother country. With a total number of over 300 members
on its roll, Malayalam Wing is the biggest and one of the most active
linguistic wings of the Indian Social Club.
Even though we are ten years old as “Malayalam
Wing”, we do have a proven track record of 20+ years serving
the community in the Sultanate of Oman in the name of Kerala Cultural
Centre. It was in the year 1996 when the Government of Oman promulgated
a new law regulating the functioning of all foreign social clubs
and each foreign country was allowed one club each. Thus, for Indian
community, Indian Social Club was approved and considering the large
geographic area with many languages spoken, separate linguistic
wings were allowed to function under the umbrella of Indian Social
Club.
So we can gladly say that we have been functioning
in the Sultanate of Oman for over 30 years. Malayalam Wing is the
most active and leading socio-cultural linguistic wing of the Indian
Social Club, Muscat which is an approved organization by the Government
of Oman. We are always on the forefront in promoting the rich heritage
and culture of India, especially Kerala, in this beautiful and friendly
country of Sultanate of Oman by fully following the rules and regulations
of the host country. Our organization is managed by an elected body
and we have exclusive sub-sections, like Ladies Wing, Childrens
Wing, Literary Wing, Cultural Wing, Sports and Entertainment, Music
and Drama and Social Welare. Each of these committees are headed
by a Co-ordinator from the Management Committee. All these sub-sections
are active and hold various programmes and we remain active throughout
the year. So, the Malayalam Wing of Indian Social Club Muscat has
become a well known socio-cultural organization in the Sultanate
of Oman.
Together with promoting the heritage and culture
of our mother India, we also give high priority on social welfare
and humanitarian services. We have been on a regular basis rendering
financial assistance to the needy people of our state who are entangled
in Oman due to various problems they are faced with, may it be long
term hospital treatments, disputes with their sponsors, or on any
issues. We constantly liaise with the Embassy of India in Muscat
to help repatriation of such individuals back to Kerala. We have
an active Social Welfare department to tackle such issues. Apart
from these, we are a regular donor of blood to the Ministry of Health,
Oman Blood Bank and we have been honoured by the Ministry of Health
with a special award for such humanitarian services we provide to
the local community.
List of Eminent
Personalities whom we honoured
Every year we honour the eminent personalities
of Kerala with two types of Awards which are awarded annually, i.e.
Cultural Award awarded at the annual Onam celebrations and Literary
Award, awarded on the eve of “Keralolsavam” held every
year. These awards are given to the selected individuals who have
contributed immensely either in the Film industry, Literary field
or in the Artistic field. Since its inception in 1996, we have conferred
upon these prestigious awards on notable personalities.
Cultural Award
The following notable personalities are conferred
upon with our Annual Cultural Award:
Dadasahib Phalke Award winner Shri Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Film
Stars - Sri Madhu,Sri Nedumudi Venu, Sri Murali, Sri Jagathy Sreekumar,Smt KPAC Lalitha,Sri
I.V. Sasi, Smt Seema Sasi, Sri Sreenivasan, Padmasri Sukumari, Sri Jagadish, Sri Balachandra Menon, Sri Thilakan,Smt Sheela, Sri Blessy Thomas (2009)
Literary Award
Literary Awards are conferred upon eminent personalities
of Kerala at the annual “Keralostavam” celebrations
held every year. We have honoured great personalities, such as,
S/Shri Perumbadavam Sreedharan, M. V. Devan, Artist Namboothiri,
Sreekumaran Thampi , Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri, Sri Sethu (For 'ADAYALANGAL' - which later won the Kendra Sahitya Award), Sre C Rarhakrishnan ( Theekkadal Kadanju Thirumuttam) and Sri K L Mohana Varma ( Neethi), Sri N S Madhavan I A S ( Higwita -2009) with the Literary
Awards.
We are proud to say that our organization had the
opportunity to honour most of Kerala’s luminaries who have
excelled in their field of specialisation. The list goes on, such
as S/Shri Kadammaniktta Ramakrishnan, Sugathakumari, Sukumar Azhikode,
M. Mukundan, Mrs. Madhavi Kutty, Kavalam Narayana Panicker, O.N.V.
Kurup, M. Krishnan Nair, M.T.Vasudevan Nair, Sachidanandan, Balachandran
Chullikad, Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Chullukadu, Professor D Vinayachandran,
K.J. Yesudas, T. Padmanabhan, P. Valsala, Narendra Prasad, Kodiyettam
Bharat Gopi, Ayyappa Panicker, Justice Sreedevi, Rose Mary, B.Lalithambika,
IAS, Sreelekha IPS, India’s Athletic Star P.T. Usha, Prof.V.
Madhusudanan Nair, Sri N S Madhavan, Justice Fathima Beevi,
The following distinguished personalities of Kerala
were honoured by our organization on their visits to the Sultanate
of Oman: Jurists - Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer and Justice Fathima
Beevi, Filpm Star Prem Nazir, Singers P. Jayachandran and Neyyatinkara
Vasudevan; famous Dancer Kanaka Rele, luminaries such as Surya Krishna
Moorthy, Chemmanam Chacko, Artist Yesudas,T.N. Gopakumar (Asianet),Sri Vidyadharan Master etc
Political Leaders
honoured
We have also honoured prominent visiting political leaders, irrespective
of any political parties. The list of such eminent leaders include
– S/Shri E.K. Nayanar, former Chief Minister of Kerala, O.
Rajagopal, former Union Minister of State for Railways, M.M. Jacob,
former Union Minister, E. Ahmed, Union Minister of State for External
Affairs, M.V. Raghavan, former Minister of Co-operative Sector,
K. Kunhalikutty, former Minister of Kerala for Industry, M.M. Hassan,
former Minister of NRK & Parliamentary Affairs of Kerala, Thiruvanchoor
Radhakrishnan, former Minister of Kerala, Smt. K.R. Gauri, former
Industries Minister of Kerala, Smt. Susheela Gopalan, Former Kerala
Minister, T. Sivadasa Menon, Former Kerala Minister, R. Balakrishna
Pillai, Former Kerala Minister, A. Sujanapal, Former Kerala Minister,
Pinarayi Vijayan, Ramesh Chennithala, former MP, Dr. Sebastian Paul,
MP and Smt. P. Satheedevi, MP,Sri Jose Thettayil -Transport Minister of Kerala (2010)..etc
Celebrations
of Festivals
As a secular and non-political organization for
the Keralites community in Oman, we celebrate all festivals, such
as Vishu, Onam, Eid, Christmas, Easter etc., irrespective of cast
and creed and with fullest co-operation of our members and their
families and we always uphold the rich tradition of India.
10th Anniversary
In the beginning of 2006 we celebrated 10th Anniversary
as the “Malayalam Wing” and the inauguration was done
by Honourable Shri T.N. Seshan, IAS, former Chief Election Commissioner
of India. The Indian community in Oman in general congratulated
our organization for bringing the versatile T.N. Seshan to Oman,
who is known as the Iron man of Indian democracy. The excellent
speech by Mr. Seshan was enthralled by the entire fully packed audience.
The Leaders
of the Managing Committee since 1996
Mr. CNP Nampoothiri -1996/98 , 2001/2
Mr. Suresh B Nair - 1997
Mr. Kalidasa Kurup - 2003/4
Mr. Abraham Mathew - 1999/2000, 2005/06/07/08
Mr. Madhusudhanan E G - 2009/10
Members of the present Management Committee 2011-2012
