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Address
4132 Starlight Crescent
Mississauga, Ontario L4W 4R3
Tel: 905. 270 .1214
E mail: lalitha.brodie7@hotmail.com
Copyright - All Rights Reserved
ISBN NO: 978-0-9813220-0-1
First Edition - Toronto, Canada - 2009
Lalitha Brodie's Photographs by Irene Borins Ash
www.ireneborinsash.com
E mail: ireneborinsash@rogers.com

Publisher
Vlambaram Publications Inc.( In Tamil )
www.vlambaram.com
E mail: vlambaram@sympatico.ca

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,tw;iwnay;yhk; fle;Jk;> cs;shfTk;> ClhfTk; vkJ tho;fi
; fia MuhAk;NghJ
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gpuhHj;jidfspy; ,e;jr; rhay; njupfpd;wJ.
Dr. R. yk;Nghjud;> M.D, MBBS, CCSP

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Dr. Iyanla Vanzantf;F ed;wp.

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cldbahf Muk;gpg;Nghk;.

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rptj;jkpourp> Fws;newp> lhf;lH mkpHjnfsup khyd;

];jhgfH jiytH mUs;kpF jpUr;nre;J}H KUfd; Myak; -fdlh
jpUkzg; gjpthsH (Registrar of Marriage), Md;kPf MjuTg; gzpahsH
(Spiritual Support Worker), neUf;fb epiy MNyhrfH (Crisis Intervention
Counsellor), Radio, TV Programmer, Orator, Community Leader

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Lalitha Brodie: no time to slow down

Lalitha Brodie wears many hats and although she is a proud Canadian citizen, her
Sri Lankan roots continue to inspire her life amongst the Tamil community here.
Some of her five children live in England and Sri Lanka. She has 11 grandchildren
and three great grandchildren. She and her husband Rajah Brodie, a retired Tea
Planter came to Canada as landed immigrants 17 years ago, fleeing their troubled
country. They joined two of their four sons.
Although she has never been a wage earner, her life has been dedicated to her
many causes and working interests. She speaks three languages - Tamil, Sinhalese
and English. Right now, she is assistant editor to the bilingual quarterly magazine
Mental Wellness for Tamils, published by Charitable Universal Community Help.
She is also a director of Omkara Spiritual Vedanta Centre & ITR Radio. Educated
in Sri Lanka, Lalitha received a diploma in psychological counseling in Jaffna in
1989. She was co-founder of the Association for Health & Counselling Shanthiham
associated with The Teaching Hospital in Jaffna.
During much of that period, she also expanded her involvement in her war-ravaged
country to become president of the Selva Refugee Camp, which housed over 1,000
refugees from Trincomalee; and was president of a Mothers' Front in Chundikuli,
Jaffna. Always a seeker on a spiritual path, Lalitha has traveled to Puttaparthi India
nine times: from 1992, she has been the only Tamil member of Sukiyo Mahikari,
a global spiritual organization based in Japan.
Although five inches shorter in stature due to severe osteoporosis, Lalitha commands attention, bringing out from her various bags mounds of material connected
with her various enterprises. In 2006 Ahilan Associates published her second book,
Peace with Justice - poems that vividly portray her life and feelings about Sri
Lanka, what has happened to her, her family, other Sri Lankans and people who
have been important on her journey. She hopes her writing will inspire other Asian
woman to join, as she has, a feminist organization the Older Women's Network
- "and reap rewards of all OWN activities, along with wings for their words."
UNITY IN DIVERSITY
Traveling the Toronto TTC
With passengers of a multicultural flare
I daily marvel at the well synchronized harmony
Evident everywhere

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Currently, she is working on another book. Although Lalitha regrets that she did
not start writing earlier, she says it is rewarding that she is now a well-recognized
broadcaster/telecaster, and writes extensively in both Tamil and English. According
to International Tamil Radio, her broadcast influence reaches beyond the Tamil
community to the mainstream.
Lalitha says her Tamil articles on individual personal growth in bi-monthly Vlambaram "seem to touch the hearts of many and bring pleas for counseling/referral."
Despite her age - she is in her mid-70s - Lalitha shows no sign of slowing down.
Like other successful people, she knows the value of networking. She is involved
with OWN's Creative Writing Group, with whom she shares her work in progress.
She acknowledges that these women give her both practical guidance and friendship.
Dawn Hembling, chair of OWN's Creative Writing Group, acknowledges Lalitha's
lifelong advocacy for women of all nationalities and all ages, and admires her tireless work and her courage in putting down her thoughts in her writings and poetry.
By
Anne Farrel
Veteran Writer/Poet, Past Chair Older Womens Network and news reporter
Related Link
Older Women's Network, Ontario
(Thanks to www.coolwomen.org / www.section15.org)

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