The National Day of Singapore was celebrated in Chennai with much fanfare and the presence of Diplomats and the important people of the state of Tamilnadu.
This year’s event is also a milestone marking 40 years of Total Defence, as well as being the first National Day Parade for Singapore’s new Prime Minister and President.
This year celebrations in Singapore were very grand and more than 27000 people attended the event in the capital city. First held on 9 August 1966 to mark the one-year anniversary of Singapore’s declaration of independence from Malaysia, it has been held annually since then. The parade had historically been held at the Padang, but were occasionally held at the former National Stadium, and in a “decentralised” format across the country to encourage wider public participation. Beginning in 1984, the Padang began to host the parade on a regular cycle (initially once every three years, and then every five years beginning 1995) and during all years marking anniversaries of national significance, with the event otherwise hosted by the National Stadium.
While the parade officially takes place on 9 August, full-scale rehearsals and “preview” shows begin as early as mid-June, including a series of “NDP National Education Show” events hosting Primary 5 students, complete with pyrotechnics and fireworks.[1][2] These full-scale, replica productions every weekend allow for up to 300,000 Singaporeans to participate as a spectator at one of the parades, with tens of thousands more around Marina Bay taking in the weekly aerial flypast and fireworks display each Saturday evening.
Prof J. Ranganathan also met with the legandary actor Nasser who is a famous artist in Malayalam Cinema and he is noted for his roles alongside Mohanlal in films like Mukham, Butterflies and Olympian Anthony Adam. Some of the films that he has acted in Telugu . Besides South Indian language films, he has acted in Hindi language films Prof J Ranganathan invited Nasser to Myanmar for identifying new film locations.
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