source<\/a><\/p>\nALOR STAR: The country’s largest handmade veenai, an Indian classical instrument, is now on display at Universiti Utara Malaysia in Sintok, Kedah. <\/p>\n
Costing about RM25,000, the giant veenai is the work of 200 members of the Indian Cultural Club of the university’s Kolej Yayasan Al-Bukhary <\/p>\n
The veenai measuring 10.3m long and 1.8m high with a 2.4m-wide base would be submitted as an entry in the Malaysia Book of Records, said programme adviser Suresh David. <\/p>\n
Veenai is associated with the Hindu goddess of education. <\/p>\n
“We have worked hard for more than a week to complete this project. We have to travel more than 100km back and forth from the campus in Sintok to a temple in Alor Star to build this wooden veenai.” <\/p>\n
Suresh, who is a third-year finance student, said the fund-raising campaign was initiated five months ago to source for funding for the project. “We managed to raise RM29,000.” <\/p>\n
The beautifully-decorated veenai was unveiled during the club launching ceremony at UUM last Sunday night. <\/p>\n
Youth and Sports Ministry Parliamentary Secretary S.A. Vigneswaran contributed RM8,000 while the UUM treasury gave RM2,000. <\/p>\n
Indian fine art experts R. Karunagaran and S. Sarawana were the designers. Karunagaran said veenai was a sacred musical instrument as the Goddess of Education was often portrayed holding it. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
GIANT FEAT: Three of the team members involved in the veenai project Lokeswari Gurumoorthy (right), Valarmathy Vellu (centre) and Jeniffer Sandrasegaran with a kolam and the giant musical instrument in the background. Giant veenai on show source ALOR STAR: The country’s largest handmade veenai, an Indian classical instrument, is now on display at Universiti […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19,225,275],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-education","tag-politicians","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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