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Vol. 25, No. 2 September 28 - October 4, 2019 20 pages Free Circulation OFFICE : 2498 2244, 2467 1122 EDITORIAL : 2466 0269 WEBSITE : www.mylaporetimes.com

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A condolence meet was held in memory of G. Narayanaswamy, a renowned, senior chartered accountant of Mylapore who passed away on August 23.The meet was on Sept. 20 at TAG-Dakshinamurthy Auditorium, P. S. Higher Secondary School campus.Among those who spoke were S. Gurumurthy, FCA, president, YMIA and B. S. Raghavan, retired IAS officer and trustee, Rajaji Centre for Public Affairs. Narayanaswamy held many posts – he was founder of Rajaji Centre for Public Affairs, president of The Triplicane Cultural Academy and Mahalakshmi Welfare Association, past president of Young Men’s Indian Association, Society of Auditors and Hindustan Chamber of Commerce, a senior member of The Chartered Accountant Study Circle besides other bodies.

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September 28Sai Bhajans by Mandaveli

samithi between 6.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. At V-Excel Education-al Trust, 10/23, Thiruvengadam Street, R. A. Puram. Open to all.

Navarathri Utsav. At Ram-

akrishna Mission Students Home, My lapore . On t i l l Oct. 8. Daily discourse at 7.30 a.m. Music concerts at 6.30 p.m. daily. Open to all.

Life and teachings of Swa-

mi Akhandananda - talk by Swami Naravarananda. At Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore. 5.30 p.m.

Talk on ‘A. N. Sivaraman: the multifaceted personality’ by Kalaimagal magazine editor Kizhambur Sankara Subra-manian. At Srinivasa Gandhi Nilayam, Ambujammal Street, Alwarpet. 6 p.m. Hosted jointly by Ilakkiach Chinthanai and by Kuvikam Ilakkiyavaasal, lit-erary organisations. (Chintha-nai holds its monthly Thamizh literary meetings on the last Saturday of every month at Srini-vasa Gandhi Nilayam). Contact 9791069435.

Special discourse by Swa-mi Ishapremananda. At Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore. 5.30 p.m.

Music fest by Swatantra and

Kalyana Nagar Association. Namasankeerthanam by G. K. Shetty Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Ambattur. Followed by vocal concert by J. B. Keerthana. 4.45 p.m. onwards. At Kaly-a n a N a g a r A s s o c i a t i o n , Mandavelipakkam. Contact 24952997/24611674.

Video screening of recorded

talk by philosopher J. Krishna-murthy. Theme: Beauty is the quiet of the self forgotten. At Vasanth Vihar, Greenways Road, 6 p.m. Open to all.

Navarasam- Through the eyes of Draupadi- dance drama by Aishwarya Mani. At Nara-da Gana Sabha, T.T.K. Road, Alwarpet. 5 p.m. Paid event. Con-tact 8939619830, 9790850032.

Thejas Bala Natyotsav; re-cital by students of Sheela Un-

nikrishnan’s Sridevi Nrithyalaya. At R. R. Sabha, Mylapore. 5 p.m.

Five day nadaswaram fes-

tival by Sumanasa Founda-tion. Each day’s concert will be devoted to a composer. At Raga Sudha Hall, Luz. On till October 5. Daily at 6.15 p.m.

Gandhiji’s 150th birth an-niversary. Students from Chet-tinad Vidyashram will present patriotic songs. Film screening of incidents from the life of Gan-dhi. S. Kulandaiswamy, secre-tary, Gandhi Peace Foundation will be honoured. At Kalyana Nagar Association, Mandav-elipakkam. 5.30 p.m. Contact 24952997/24611674.

150th birth anniversary of

Mahatma Gandhi - celebrations by YMIA and D. Rangaswamy Academy of Fiscal Research. S. Kulandaiswamy and Dr. S. Shenbagavalli of Gandhi Peace Foundation will be honoured. At P. S. High School, Mylapore. 6 p.m.

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Soon, Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) will roll out its smart parking facility

SMART PARKING SYSTEM TO BE LAUNCHED AT MARINA

FREE MEDICAL CAMP FOR SENIORSAndhra Mahila Sabha, R. A. Puram is organising a free

medical camp for seniors on Oct. 1 to mark ‘World Elders Day’. A vaccination camp for adults will be inaugurated. At 12, Dr. Durgabai Deshmukh Road, R. A. Puram, 10 a.m. onwards.

at the Marina beach zone. Motorists will have to pay a fee for parking their vehicles from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on the service road here.

The civic body has put up an in-formation board in the sandy side near the lighthouse to notify motorists of the plan. The board lists an hour’s park-ing fee for various types of vehicles. According to the list, two-wheelers and four-wheelers will be charged Rs 5 and Rs 20 respectively for an hour.

Once in opera-tion, motorists will be able to check the

availability of parking spaces on the GCC Smart Parking System App.

A note on the GCC’s website on smart parking states – By using the App people will also be able to pay and book the park-ing lot well in advance using the digital payment method.

Says a civic official from Chennai Smart City Limited, “This feature will be launched in a week’s time.”


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WALL ART WAS A STRESS BUSTER FOR SOME PARTICIPANTS IN THIS COMMUNITY EFFORT

On Saturday, September 14, Cityworks con-ducted a community wall art event at Infinity Park, San Thome, an inclusive park for children with and without disabilities.

Residents of the com-munity, children with special needs and their parents, and volunteers armed with brushes, en-thusiastically painted the outlines drawn on a wall by an artist.

One parent said, “It was such a stress-buster. I was so immersed in painting, I didn’t even have to worry about keeping an eye on Sanjay (son).”

Another said, “I have never painted before. Once I started I didn’t want to stop.” The wall art has made the park a bit more colourful now. This park is off San Thome High Road, near Registration Office and local Amma Unavagam.- Reported by Sneha Raghuram / Vidya Mandir student

CARNATIC MUSIC SCHOOL AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS TO MARK ITS A-DAY

Well-known Carnatic music vocalist Sudha Ragunathan was the special guest at the 24th annual day of Hamsanadam Music School held on Saturday, Sept.21 at Dakshinamurthy Auditorium in P. S. School campus, Mylapore.

She presented two scholarships as part of the en-dowment created in the name of late Karaikudi V. M. Ganesan to promote young talent. Ganesan was a well-known mridangam artiste and is the father of Dr. Shubha Ganesan who runs the music school.

Two Hamsanadam students, V. Sudharshana and Abirami received the scholarship for this year – they are exempted from paying annual fees.

The school’s students presented short recitals on stage. Contact – 9176197223.

US FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER WAS GUEST AT DANCE RECITAL THEMED ON MANY WAYS OF BHAKTI

Sydney Skov is a Foreign Service Officer at the US Consulate office in Chennai. She is also a pas-sionate dancer, having learnt dance when she was just four. Dance has been part of her life, making time after her mainline work to learn dance and that has happened to her in Kolkata and now in Chennai.

In the city, she is learning the basics of Bhara-tanatyam from dancer Priya Murle, a senior sishya of Prof. Sudharani Raghupathy based in Alwarpet.

On Saturday, September 21, Sydney was a special guest at the 51st performance of Priya Murle’s dance production titled ‘Panchaturam; breaking the bonds’.

This production focuses on the many different ways of bhakti, interweaving katha and music with classical dance, performed by Priya and four sishyas and anchored by the effervescent Sa-sirekha.

The recital was held at Rasika Ranjani Sabha, Mylapore.

Sydney has been director of the Free Body Project which works at the intersection of dance and health and social justice.

About 40 residents of R. K. Na-gar, Mandaveli got together a few weeks ago to paint the walls of the park in their neighbourhood.

K. L. Bala, a resident of Thiru-veedi Amman Koil Street who has been actively involved in several community initiatives for a few years now, says, “The OSR Park at R. K. Nagar was inaugurated about a year ago. Several residents have been using this park since then but

we wanted to beautify the park by painting the walls and by removing the garbage bin outside it. Four walls inside the park and the wall which faces R. K. Nagar 2nd Main Road were painted in association with Karpam Korpom-SAPS”.

“We hope to take over the maintenance of the park soon”, he adds. For details contact Bala at 9840441803.

PAINTING WALLS: MAKING A DIFFERENCE

AN ODE TO TEACHERS

The ‘Teachers Day’ celebration at Gowrin Special School was full of surprises. Unknown to the teachers, the students came early and decorated the school.

Later cakes were cut and games were organised for both the teachers and the special students of the school.

The school is located at Lazarus Church Road, Mandavelipakkam.

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n SHOPPING KOLU CRAFTS

On till Sept.30. At C. P. Art Centre, Eldams Road, Alwarpet. 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. Main gallery.

All varieties of kolu dolls like Kondapalli, Chennapatna and those made using clay, papier mache and terracotta are on sale here. Discount of 25% is offered. Contact 9383740065 / 7358317050.

CLOTHES, ACCESSORIES FOR TODDLERSOn till Oct. 5. At 29, C. P. Ramaswamy Road, Alwarpet.Samasta boutique holds a pop-up of clothes and

accessories for newborns, toddlers and children. Clothes, gift sets, picture cards and hair accessories.

Contact 9840342842.

BHARATHIDASAN VERSES IN DANCE

Oct.2 .6.30 p.m. Narada Gana Sabha, Alwarpet

‘Paavendharin Guhamay-am’ focuses on Bharathidasan’s poetry adapted to Bharathanaty-am and curated by Natyarangam Trust. Dancers Abhayakaram Krishnan and Preetha Prabhud-has will perform.

CLOWNS, MAGIC & FUNSept.28. At Curio Play. Abhi-

ramapuram. 4.30 p.m. onwards. Evam will present ‘Clown

Chow’ directed by John Pradeep JL. This program will feature clowns, music, magic and fun. Paid event. Contact 9840236367.

ARTIST MANOHAR DEVADAS SPEAKS

Sept. 29. 8.30 a.m. At Counter Culture Comedy Club, Sriram Nagar, Alwarpet.

Artist-writer Manohar Devadas of San Thome speaks on how he found his muse and how dedication and persever-ance helped him face the most challenging situations in life, drawing and painting despite his fading tunnel vision.

The event is called Creative Mornings. Open to all. Register at 8220832419.

ON EDITOR A. N. SIVARAMAN

Sept. 28. 6 p.m. At Srinivasa Gandhi Nilayam, Ambujammal Street, Alwarpet.

Keezhambur Sankarasubra-manian, editor, Kalaimagal mag-azine will speak on ‘A. N. Sivara-man , the multifaceted personali-ty’. Sivaraman was editor of Dina Mani newspaper for many years. Hosted by Ilakkiach Chinthanai and Kuvikam Ilakkiyavaasal. Contact 9791069435.

DASARA CAMPSept 30. to Oct.4. 10 a.m. to

1 p.m. At 14, Sai Bhavanam, 2nd Link Street. C. I. T. Colony.

Dwarakamai Educational Service Centre conducts a Dasara camp for children in the age group 3 - 12 years. Drawing, colouring, origami, Thamizh rhymes, bhajans and physical exer-cises will be taught. Group games will be conducted. Open to all.

Contact 9500144940.

WORKSHOP ON ARTS Sept. 30.10.30 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.

At 46, Kasturi Ranga Road, Alwarpet,Parampara conducts a workshop

for children in the age group 6 - 12 years. Story-telling, arts and crafts and related activities will be held. Paid event.

Contact 9940072449 / 24991516.

STORY & READING SESSIONSept.28. At Tulika book store. 305,

Manickam Avenue, T. T. K. Road, Alwarpet. 10.30 a.m.

Author Prabha Ram and Arthi Anand Navaneeth will introduce the book ‘Can you?’ for children aged 4 and above. The session will have a fun story-telling and reading session. Illustrator of the book, Ashok Rajago-palan will participate.

Open to all. Contact 9840909228.

REVIEW WITH TULIKA PUBLISHERS

Sept.28. At Wandering Artist. R. A. Puram. 4 p.m. onwards.

Children aged 7 – 14 years can enjoy a session of book reading and reviewing with Tulika publisher.

Contact 9840111425. Paid event.

PARK KUTCHERIOct. 4 – 6. 7 a.m. daily. At Nageswara Rao Park, Luz.Sundaram Finance hosts a three-day ‘Mikeless Kutch-

eri in the Park’ series as a part of Navarathri celebrations.Arvind Balaji (Oct. 4), Vibha Krishnakumar (Oct 5),

and K. Ramcharan (Oct. 6) will perform at the Chess Sqauare area of the park.

CONCERTS BY YOUNG ARTISTESSept. 29 – Oct. 7. At Kartik Rajagopal Hall,

R. A. PuramKartik Fine Arts hosts Navarathri Carnatic music

festival featuring young artistes. There will be two concerts daily, at 5.30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

BIRIYANI SPECIALOn till Oct.23. At Cream

Centre, R. A. PuramA biriyani festival is on at

this restaurant. The biryani is prepared with Basmati rice and rich aromatic spices. Vegetarian. Contact 42815777.

SICHUWAN CUISINEOn till Sept.29. At Pumpkin Tales, 37/20, Bheemanna

Garden Street, Alwarpet. Pumpkin Tales’ short stories is a unique pop-up dining

concept that celebrates one new global cuisine for a weekend. This weekend it celebrates Sichuan cuisine of China. Open for lunch - from noon – 3 p.m. and for dinner, 6.30 to 10.30 p.m. Call 24995510.


Vijayadasami Adverts

REMEMBERING MAHATMA GANDHI

The valedictory function of Gandhi 150, a celebration organ-ised by Alwarpet based Gandhi Peace Foundation, will be held at Rosary Matriculation School, San Thome on Oct. 5. A skit and poster making compe-tition will be announced. An all religions prayer for peace will be held, representatives from seven religions will participate.

The event is being organised by thirty student volunteers who have been working with the conservancy workers for a while now. They will be honouring 150 workers by contributing Rs. 2000 each. In addition to that, 100 teachers and inter-religious friends who have been associ-ated with the foundation for five decades will be given mememtoes. Those who would like to contrib-ute towards this cause can call the secretary Dr. S. Kulandaisamy at 8939215045. 9 a.m. onwards.


The kolu dolls bazaar of Mylapore is now choc-a-bloc with shoppers who are keen to grab a deal and go home with a set of dolls they want for this Navarathri’s kolu.

Scores of shoppers fill the jam-packed North Mada Street to do their last-minute festival shopping.

Hawkers have added more stocks of the dolls at the 50-plus stalls on North and a part of East Mada Street.

Dolls from Kanchipuram, Panruti, Cuddalore, Vellore, Pondicherry, and Kosapet are on sale. Some have arrived from Kolkata and other North Indian states.

Apart from the regular Dasava-tharam and Kalyanam set, dolls of the lord Athi Vardar, Nava Narasimhar (nine forms of Narasimhar similar to idols at Andhra Pradesh’s Ahobilam), Muperumdevigal (a doll that depicts the three goddesses - Saraswathi,

Lakshmi, and Parvathi in one form) and those of terracotta materials are in demand.

All of them are available at most of the shops; But dolls of Athi Vara-dar have sold out. Hawkers say fresh pieces will arrive in the coming days.

Jayaraj’ s shop in front of Radha Gold Jewellers in North Mada Street is different. This hawker, who says his family has been in this business for 40 years, has a number of new dolls.

“Papier-mache dolls of lord Hariharan, Badrachala Raman, Dwaraka Krishna, and Vinayakar Vathiyam (a set of lord Vinayaka dolls playing different musical instruments) are new here,” points out Shrimati a shopper from K. K. Nagar who was here on Thursday.

The Nava Narasimhar set is priced at Rs 2200 and that of Muperumdevi-gal is priced at Rs 1800 at his shop. (Rates of these dolls vary at different stalls).

Frenetic shopping for kolu dolls on mada streets


V. Ramadurai, a resident of Mandaveli passed away on Sept.2. He was 93 years old.

He was born on April 26, 1926 at Kutchery Road, Mylapore and spent 80 years of his life in the neighbourhoods of Mylapore and Mandaveli.

He worked at Madras Port Trust and retired as senior administrative officer. A native of Mannargudi, he was also the secretary and correspondent of National Higher Secondary School, Mannargudi. His close association with the Kanchi Mutt and the acharyas was a driving force for his involvement in activities of the Mutt, his family said.

He started the NRI Parents Association and the monthly Anusham pooja in Dallas, USA. He is survived by his wife and a daugh-ter. The family can be reached at 9445128146.

M. Srinivasan former cricketer and long time resident of Mandaveli passed away on

Sept. 5 at the age of 94An employee of

Southern Railways, he had represented Indian Railways and Tamil Nadu in Ranji trophy matches. Srinivasan was also the chairman of the Tamil Nadu Cricket

Association’s selection committee for schools and was also a qualified umpire.

Says his son S. Ganesh Ram, who is an international tennis umpire, “He was passionate about the game. He was the founder member of the Royapettah Cricket Club and ran it for 50 years. Well known cricketers like L. Sivaramakrisnan. W. V. Raman and Badani were trained by him here. My father’s team mates included players like V. V. Kumar and S. Venkataraghavan.”

Srinivasan is survived by his wife Mangalam, daughter S. Chitra and son Ganesh Ram. The family resides at 34, Venkatakrishna Road, Mandaveli.

Ph. 9444246645 / 9445142427.

Saraswathy Ramaswamy (91), wife of well-known paper merchant late T. V. Ramaswamy Iyer passed away on Sept,11.

She was one of the earliest residents of

what is now known as Mandavellipakkam. A group of illustrious people, including

the Ramaswamy couple, got together and purchased land from the City Improvement Trust of the state and organised themselves to promote religious cul-tural activities in this space. Thus was born two iconic institutions of the neighbourhood, The Kalyana Nagar Association (estd.1956) and the Sri Ayyappa Baktha Samajam (estd. 1961).

Her family said Saraswathy was way ahead of her times, driving her Herald and Chevrolet cars in the city way back in the 60s and organ-ising the local women’s group for conducting several religious and cultural events.

Deeply devoted to her two inspirations - lord Ayyappa and Kanchi Paramacharya - she along with her husband Ramaswamy, music director Dakshinamurthy and other prominent residents here conducted Koti Archana for lord Ayyappa on the advice of the Kanchi seer way back in 1961.

“The annual mandala pooja is a flagship event of the neighbourhood even to this day,” said T, R, Prakash, her son.

She interacted with many stalwarts of the era including writer Ki.Va.Ja and was instru-mental in conducting several Radha and Sita kalyanam events which led to the area being initially named as Kalyana Nagar.

A favourite student of music guru Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar, she was responsible for hosting a galaxy of Carnatic music maes-tros in cluding Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagava-thar, K. J. Yesudas, Radha Jayalakshmi, Kun-nakudi Vaidyanathan, Chitti Babu, Bombay Sisters, Sikkil Sisters and Veeramani Somu for concerts at Kalyana Nagar Association .

She took great pride in the fact that she, along with the other leading personalities of the locality like late Dr. B. Leelavathy were blessed to conduct the kanakabishegam for 3 generations of the Kanchi seers - Paramacha-rya Sri Chandrasekara Saraswathi, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi and Sri Vijayendra Saraswathi swamigal at Kalyana Nagar Association.

Saraswathi Ramaswamy is survived by a large family of four sons and their families.

The family resides at No.13, ‘Suprabha’, Norton 3rd Street, Mandavellipakkam.

Ph.: 9444998900, 9444037204.

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De-silting of storm water drains is on:is it happening in your area? By Our Staff Reporter

To avoid flooding during the rains, de-silt-ing of storm water drains (SWDs) is going on at a steady pace in many parts of Mylapore.

The past few days, Chennai Corporation’s

contract workers are desilting drains on Durgabai Deshmukh Road ( alongside the hospital and MGR-Janaki College), Dr. Ranga Road and in East Abhiramapuram First Street besides other parts of the neighbourhood.

The muck removed is collected and stored in bags. Once the water drains off from it, workers say it will be taken away in garbage collection vans.

Said a worker, “We have been asked to finish the de-silting work before the north-east monsoon sets in.”

If your area’s drains are full of muck / debris, you may want to call the area engineer and alert him/her. Or lodge a plaint on the Namma Chennai App of Chennai Corporation.

A piece of high-value property located off San Thome High Road which originally fell under the management of Sri Payandiamman Temple, Nadukuppam in Triplicane was secured by the state’s Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments department amidst some drama on Wednesday afternoon.

Valued at about Rs.8 crores, this property, alongside where the Foreshore Estate arch used to stand was given on lease. HR&CE officials said the lease expired some 8 years ago but the family which leased this property had taken the issue to court.

The family lost the case and the state depart-ment quickly secured it with the help of a large number of policemen and women.

The occupants of four shops including the popular Tamil Nadu Bakery and a residence had to vacate the premises and move out goods even as officials sealed the properties, pasted notices on each door and completed this operation even as noontime traffic slowed down to take in the drama.


P. C. Ramakrishna is a tall personality in the theatre scene in the city and beyond. He has been on stage and close to it for over five decades. To celebrate Ramakrishna’s milestone in theatre, a life that has been

wholly with The Madras Players, a city-based theatre group, three English plays this Alwarpet resident has directed in recent times will be staged this weekend.

All the three plays are Indian in content and written by Indian writers on local themes. ‘Water’, originally written in Thamizh by Komal Swaminathan is to be staged on Sept.27. ‘Chudamani’ is at its core, a collection of stories by this late writer, woven around her own life. To be staged on Sept.28. These Thamizh stories were translated by Prabha Sridevan.

And ‘Trinity’, originally written by Seetha Ravi and translated by Prabha Sridevan focuses on episodes in the lives of the greatest Carnatic music composers called the Trinity. The play has artistes who perform the music on stage. On Sept.29.

All the plays are at Museum Theatre, Egmore starting at 7.15 p.m. Daily and weekend tickets are on sale.

Call 9381911977.

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Every time it rains, Abhiramapuram First Street gets flooded. And this sickens residents. They are frustrated because a series of complaints to the local Chennai Corpora-tion office has not evoked a response that solves the issue.

Says resident Giridharan Kesavan, “Only a part of this street has a stormwater drain. And that is a 6-inch wide PVC pipe. That pipe’s section was damaged by workers of a private ISP (Internet Service Provider) erected a utility pole here.” This pipe, he says, is connected to the stormwater drain at Dr. Ranga Road, from where the water is led to the Buckingham Canal.

“Every time it rains, besides flooding, it becomes danger-ous for the residents and motorists due to the presence of a large number of potholes here,” he says.

Mylapore Times asked Arul Maran, AE of ward 123 why the problem has not been addressed. He says, “The entire stretch of Abhiramapuram First Street does not require a drain. There are seven inlets to the stormwater drain spread across 35m of this road. If those inlets and the drains on Dr. Ranga Road are desilted water will not stagnate.”

The inlets though are filled with muck, some are dam-aged and have been buried under the road. The drains on Dr. Ranga Road are yet to be desilted. Says the AE, “As the

road is in a bad condition, there is a proposal to relay it in a few months. During that time, we will reconstruct drains. Meanwhile, to avoid flooding, we will de-silt and repair the inlets and make them functional.”

He says that he will also try to con-struct a recharge well here. Now, it is for residents to pursue Arul Maran’s plans.

MUCK FILLED DRAINS LEAD TO FLOODING IN ABHIRAMAPURAM STREET

Photo: Giridharan Kesavan



Here is a listing of religious and cultural events to be held at temples and at various venues in the neigh-bourhood for Navarathri this year.

AT TEMPLESl Navarathri will be celebrated at Sri Kapali

Temple, Mylapore from Sept. 29 to Oct. 8. Kamadhenu, Saraswathi, Naga, Raja Rajeswari and several other alankarams will be adorned by the god-dess in the evening everyday.

l At Sri Karaneeswarar Temple, Mylapore, Sri Porkodi Amman will be taken to the kolu mandapam in the temple on the first day (Sept.29) in the Anna vahanam. Special alankarams will continue till Oct. 8.

l At Sri Velleeswarar Temple, Mylapore, a kolu will be kept at the temple premises. Abhishekams will be held for the deity in the morning everyday. The goddess will adorn a special alankaram in the even-ing. On, Vijayadashami (Oct. 8), parvettu vizha will be held for the deities on the kuthirai vahanam. A veedi purappadu will follow.

l At Sri Vedanta Desikar Temple, Mylapore, Thayar will adorn a special alankaram everyday. An ula purappadu will be held in the evening on all days.

l At Sri Adi Kesava Perumal Temple, Mylapore, a thirumanjanam will be held for the deity everyday in the morning. In the evening, after a special arati, an ul purappadu will be held for the goddess.

NAVARATHRI CELEBRATIONS.AT TEMPLES, BY COMMUNITY

RECALL NAVARATHRI IN 1960s?

If you have great memories of Navar-athri celebrations at your house/area/colony in the 60s and 70s, pen them down now. Narrate the special practices - rituals, kolu, music, visits. In 5/6 lines and mail to - [email protected]. Mylapore Times will publish these little stories.

BY COMMUNITYn Sri Durga Puja, Sri Lakshmi Puja and Sri Kali

Puja will be held at Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore from Oct. 4 to 8. There will be poojas, talks, kumkum and pushpa archanai and arati everyday.

n At Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mylapore, the Navarathri celebrations under Smt. Saroja Parasa-ran Memorial Endowment Series will be inaugurated by Mohan Parasaran, senior advocate, supreme court lawyer and former solicitor general of India, on Sept. 29. Prabha Sridevan, retired judge, Madras High Court pre-sides. M. Murali, honorary secretary, Bhavan’s Chennai Kendra felicitates. The fest, which is on till Oct. 8, will feature vocal and instrumental concerts and Harikatha. There will also be a special exhibition on Mahaperiyava padukas and Kanchi peedathipathis. Open to all.

n The members of the Alwarpet branch of Brahma Kumaris are organising a ‘Navarathri Maha Utsav’ from Sept. 28 to Oct. 7. There will be leadership workshops for students, a kolu in various themes, cultural pro-grammes, an exhibition, a meditation camp and special programmes for women, children and seniors. 3 p.m. onwards. At Inner Space, Rajayoga Meditation Centre, 111, Dr. R. K. Salai, Mylapore.

n Spirit of the Earth, an intiative by AIM for Seva, presents ‘Morning Raga’, an open house where nine musicians will perform classical compositions. From Sept. 29 to Oct. 7. At Srinidhi Apartments, 3rd floor, 4, Desika Road, Mylapore, 10.30 a.m. onwards.

Ph: 24987955, 9500082142.

n At Ramakrishna Mission Students Home, Mylapore, upanyasams and music programmes will be held in the morning and in the evening from Sept. 29 to Oct. 8. The morning programmes will be inaugurated by Swami Shukadevanandaji Maharaj, secretary, Ram-akrishna Mission Vidyapith on Sept. 29. The evening session will be inaugurated on the same day by Dr. Nalli Kuppuswami Chetty. Several noted artistes including vocalists Sikkil Gurucharan, Ranjani and Gayathri and Gayathri Venkatraghavan and Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar (flutist) will perform. All are welcome.

n Om Fine Arts, a part of Swatantra Foundation, is organising a special event to celebrate Navarathri on Sept. 29 at Kalyana Nagar Association, Mandavelipa-kkam. A nama sankeerthanam will be given by G. K. Shetty Vivekananda Vidyalaya students followed by a thematic concert on ‘Trisakthi’ by J. B. Keerthana. At 4.45 p.m. All are welcome.

MADE A THEME KOLU? CALL US FOR A PHOTO SHOOT

If you and your family have set up a grand, thematic kolu at your house this festival, Mylapore Times wishes to take pictures of it. Call photog-rapher Madhan Kumar on 9941772334 ( only between 9.30 am and 1 p.m.). Limited visits will be made.

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ACCOMMODATION WANTEDll WANTED Space for Car Wash Open Space

Commercial Individual house Adyar, Alwarpet, Royapettah, Abiramapuram, Besant Nagar, Nandanam, Nungambakkam, T. Nagar, Contact: 98411 29689. ll WANTED 2 BHK / 3 BHK flat / Ind house

furnished / unfurnished for rent Nov’19 and Dec’19 (2 months only) in Mandaveli / Mylapore / R. A. Puram. Ph: 9710899600.

RENTALll ABIRAMAPURAM 4th Street near Sankara

Gurukulam 2BHK 2nd floor no lift, no car park, veg only Rs.15000/-, Brokers Excuse, Contact: 99406 75934.ll MYLAPORE near Sai Baba Temple 2BHK,

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Custion Beach road Behind Hotel Dawat Santhome Chennai – 600 004, Ph: 98410 32078.ll MYLAPORE 3BHK 5yr old 1713 Sq.ft Wood

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ll 2BHK 1000 Sq.ft Independent house, Ground floor with Covered Car Park, Preferable: IT or Bank Employee near Citi Centre, Ph: 98409 72025, Broker Excuse. ll MYLAPORE Masuthi St, near Anjaneyar

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residence / office purpose. Full time / part time at Alwarpet. Brokers excuse. Contact: 7448952209.ll MANDAVELI Spencer brand new 1700

sq.ft, 3 bedroom 2 CCP, Rs.40000/- 1200 sq.ft, 2 bedroom 28000/-, CCP, Norton Road 1400 sq.ft, North facing CCP, Rs.35000/- 850 sq.ft, 2 bedroom Rs.21000/- OCP. Ph:

9003621068 / 9840736132.ll MANDAVELI 2000 sq.ft, 4 BHK 800 sq.ft,

Pvt Terrace garden woodwork 2 CCP lift, veg Rs.65000/- Mylapore 3 bedroom Rs.30000/- Independent building 10 bedrooms. Ph: 9840060497.ll NANDANAM Ground floor 1200 sq.ft, 3

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Perumal Puram 3 BHK, Ceebros flat 2000 sq.ft, 3rd floor, lift, power back up, gym, play area, 2 Car park, rent Rs.36000/- Sabha. Real Estates. Ph: 9884984545.ll SEETHAMA Colony, 1100 sq.ft, 2 BHK

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/ 9043750051.ll MYLAPORE, Mandaveli 1 BR Rs.13000/-

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Rs.32000/- 1500 sq.ft, 3 BR CP newly renovation Rs.35000/- Luz corner 1100 sq.ft, 2 BR, CP Rs.30000/- 1000 sq.ft, 2 BR CP, lift Rs.27000/- R. A. Puram 2400 sq.ft, 3 BR 2 CP, lift, genset Rs.60000/- Alwarpet 1650 sq.ft, 3 BR, CP, 4 AC, lift Rs.45000/- Mandaveli 550 sq.ft, 1 BR, Rs.12000/- Ph: 9841983231.ll MANDAVELIPAKKAM Norton Road 2400

sq.ft, 1500 sq.ft, 1200 sq.ft, Four bedroom, Three bedroom, Two bedroom lift, Car parking / Mandaveli Devanathan Road, 1900 sq.ft, first floor, Three bedroom Car parking, Alwarpet CIT Colony 2000 sq.ft, Three bedroom Car parking Mylapore, Warren Road, Ranga Road, Appu Street, Three bedroom, Two bedroom, one bedroom, San Thome, MRC Nagar, Karpagam Avenue available three bedroom, two bedroom, Car parking (Contact: R.K.Real Estate. Ph: 9841901877 / 9840770388.ll 2 BHK 2 WHP FFLR semi furnished Lloyds

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“Aashiana” Venus Colony 2nd Cross Street, Vegetarians only. Contact: 9840135315 / 9840069835.ll POES Garden exclusive AC, Apartment

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Lavakucha Apts, 2nd floor Rent Rs.20000/-, (Negotiable) no lift, Colony car parking, Advance Rs.100000/- (Negotiable), Contact: 98847 33258.ll MANDAVELI near P. S. School 3 Bedroom

1400 Sq.ft, Second floor, CCP, lift Rs.35000 near Chettinad Posh 3Bedroom 3Bath 1600 Sq.ft lift, CCP, P. Backup Rs.45000 (Including main) 2BHK Duplex 800 Sq.ft Two Wheeler park Rs.17000, Ph: 98416 30593.ll O N E B H K f l a t G r o u n d f l o o r a t

Lakshmipuram Royapettah (Behind AIADMK Office) for Rent Rs.11000, Veg Preferable,

Contact: 99401 63112/ 94449 58511.ll MYLAPORE, Mandaveli Road Rs.10K,

12K, 15K, 18K, 20K, 25K, 35K, 45K, Ph: 74016 77318.ll R. A. PURAM I Cross Street, 2BHK flat,

750 Sq.ft, Semi Furnished, Ground floor Rent Rs.21000/- Prime Locality, Brokers to Excuse, Mobile: 73973 49520.ll MYLAPORE Kutchery Road, Veg 2BHK

Rent Rs.15000 (Ng) M. K. Amman Kovil St, 2BHK Rent Rs.14000 (Ng),Mandaveli Raja St 800 Sq.ft 2BHK Rs.17000 (Ng) 1200 Sq.ft Rs.23000, T. S. V. Kovil St, 1BHK Rent Rs.16000 (Ng), Ph: 97911 92817.ll MANDAVELI 2BHK GF Srinivasan

Street CP TW Parking Furnished 900 sq.ft Rs.27000/- Veg only, Good Water, Ph: 94449 37994.ll MYLAPORE 2BHK 900 Sq.ft North Facing

Second Floor CCP Rent Rs.32k, No 29/20, Karpagambal Nagar, Opp to Amrutanjan Company. Broker Excuse. Currently no Lift. Contact: 99403 63935/ 98402 37417. ll 2 BHK Apartment availble at second

floor, available for rent (Car parking and lift not available) at Abiramapuram 4th Street near Gurukulam. Brokers excuse. Mobile: 99406 75934.

RENTAL / COMMERCIALll R. A. PURAM Kamarajar Salai, Main Road,

Sq.ft 110, Rent for Commercial, first floor, M. Natarajan, Ph: 98412 43124.ll ALWARPET 8/1 Ground floor Natesan

Colony, C. V. Raman Road, Office Space, 250 Sq.ft for Rent, Contact No: 98408 13754/ 98408 12522.ll 585 Sq.ft Commercial Shop with 3 Air

Conditioners and power backup, fully furnished available for Rent at Eldams Square, Contact: 95662 51512.ll MYLAPORE C. I. T. Colony 400 Sq.ft

with AC, Ideal for Small Office/ Commercial Rs.32000, Phone: 93810 23189.ll OFFICE space 400 sq.ft, near Bishop

garden 2nd floor good water quiet residential area Rs.15K. Ph: 9841047800.ll OFFICE space 800 sq.ft, near Bishop

garden 2nd floor quiet residential area

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Salai, Office space 1100 sq.ft, 3rd floor, lift, parking, full AC, 24 hours water nearby bus stop, Railway Station, fully furnished. Ph: 9444111858.ll NEWLY painted commercial space old

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It isn’t enough to have filters and soak pits on streets and roads to filter water before it runs into water drains. They need to be serviced.

Over time, muck, plastic and garden waste collects on the filters and this negates its function.

This is what happened in Jeth Nagar last week when it rained and water stagnated on the streets here. The blocked filters only added to the rising water levels.

It is the job of Chennai Corporation to inspect its utilities. People can also do this - a mere walk around and some physical work can set things right to tap water in public spaces.

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THIS RESIDENT SAVED4000 lts OF WATER BY RWH

Reporting, highlighting and encouraging Rain Water Har-vesting is a campaign undertak-en by Mylapore Times to mark its silver jubilee. You may share news on recent private / public efforts to tap rainwater, on ideas you have implemented, on streets that need recharge wells, etc. Call us at 24660269. Or mail to - [email protected]

By Preeti Srivatsan

Manjula Xavier, a resident of a 2000 sq. ft. inde-pendent home at 10th Cross Street, Mandavelipakkam, set up her rain water harvesting (RWH) system about a month ago. She says the recent rains has helped her harvest more than 4000 litres of water.

She says, “A few months ago, since the heat was too much, we set up an open shed like structure with slanting roofs on our terrace. The water that dripped down from the shed was collected in buckets and used. We then decided to set up a RWH system as we collected almost 8 to 10 buckets of water whenever it rained”.

This is how the system works. Pipes from the roof are connected to the drain pipe that was already in place here and a valve was fixed. When it rains, the residents allow the first shower to get into the earth. After that, they divert the rain to a filtration tank which is filled with gravel, sand and red bricks. From there, the filtered water enters the sump.

Manjula says the water that enters the sump is so pure and free of chemicals that she uses it for cooking and drinking. “We spent about Rs. 15000 to set up the whole system which includes the permanent filtration tank on the ground floor. If setting up a permanent filtration tank is not possible, a readymade filter that is available at Amazon.com for Rs. 6000 can also be used”.

Want to learn from Manjula’s experience? E-mail her at [email protected]

THIS GROUP HAS REVIVED OPEN WELL AND BENEFITTED MUCHBy Dheepti O. J

The recent steady rain was good enough to recharge the well in the campus of Murali Anand Apartment in Mandaveli.

This has happened after residents modified their Rain Water Harvesting (RWH) structure. They said they must have saved 7000 litres of water. Besides recharging the groundwa-ter, the residents are also replenishing the 70-year-old well in their premises. A few weeks ago, 12 families at this complex pooled Rs 30,000 for this modifica-tion. Earlier, this complex in Raja Street Exten-sion had two, 10ft deep recharge wells. “But we realised that it was not

enough to tap all the water that accumulat-ed during rainfall. So, we connected them to our well,” says N. Ravichandran, a long-time resident. In addition, five PVC pipes have been laid to lead the rainwater from the rooftop to the well. Says Uma Krishnan, sec-retary of the local association, “In addition to saving a large amount of water, we could also revive the well where the water that had turned salty. Though the well has never gone dry, the water had become salty during the April/May, this year when the water crisis was at its peak,” says Uma.

Later, on the suggestion of Ravichan-dran, the team approached Sekar Raghavan of Rain Centre in Adyar. “He advised us to construct a filter chamber with sand, pebbles and a mesh to filter the rainwater before it flows into the well,” she says

The residents say its construction made a huge difference to the water quality.

The well water has risen by 5 ft and resi-dents now use this water after it is raised to their overhead tanks. People who may want to replicate this RWH technique may contact Ravichandran at 9840709577.

Are water filters on streetsides functional?


V I N C E N T D ’ S O U Z A

Request to Unit 126 GCC engineer: tackle street flooding

We, the residents of 6th Trust Cross Street, Kamakshi Apartments, Mandavelippakkam, Chennai-28 are facing a seri-ous civic problem. Our street remains flooded long after even after a short spell of rain. In particular, the entrance to our apartment is flooded and slippery during and after the rains.

Our street comes under Zone 9, Ward 126. We would appreciate action on this matter by local area Greater Chennai Corporation officials/engineers.

- Sekar Ramaswamy / for residents of Kamakshi Apartments, Mandavelippakkam

Thank you GCCA long stretch of Bheemanna Garden Road alongside

Bhamini Terrace apartments and Pumpkin Tales restaurant was in bad shape. We wrote to the local Chennai Corporation office and the road has been relaid. Thanks to GCC.

- I. S. Raghavan, Alwarpet

Curb sound amplification at events in Nageswara Rao Park

A large number of people of various ages use Nageswara Rao Park for their daily walks, physical exercises and meet ups. At times, cultural activities also are conducted.

On September 8, a music concert was organised to cel-ebrate Chennai’s culture. While the purpose of the programme is laudable, the high amplification disturbed people around. Just after the music concert, another programme was organised to commemorate the great patriot VOC. Sound amplification system was also used for this event.

Groups of young men and women use the park to practice dance moves. They also use music system loudly. I request the civic authorities not to permit any programmes that use sound amplification here.

- N. Raman, Luz Avenue

n Congratulations to Mylapore Times on the completion of 25 years. I have been a reader right from the early years of the newspaper.

As a reader, I have found great editorial integrity with an unbiased coverage of the local events. While it may have been tempt-ing for a community newspaper, one that is circulated free, to increase the percentage of adverts, especially after the initial success, it is commendable that you have continued to focus on strong local news content.

There have been times when prospective tenants have signed up flats by 8 a.m. on Saturday based on the classifieds in this newspaper, an indication of the eagerness

with which they await the newspaper early on Saturday morning. Personally, your editorials are a stand out. While some are hard-hitting, they also make suggestions to people at the top. The ‘open letter’ last week to Police and Chennai Corporation commissioners is an example.

- Prabhu, Abiramapuram

n Congratulations to Mylapore Times team for completing 25 years of dedicated service. My family eagerly awaits for every issue of MT every weekend - it gives a ‘clear picture’ of the happenings in and around Mylapore.

- Preetha Rengaswamy, Mylapore

‘Illegal’ parking in residential areas off Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai

Lots of vehicles are parked during the office hours (10 a.m till 5 p.m) in the residential areas off Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai. Cars, tempo vans, autos and rental vehicles just appear from nowhere during office hours and occupy both sides of the pedestrian space. Unused/damaged cars are also dumped here for ages.

The residents on Rajasekaran Street, Chan-drabagh Avenue and Judge Jumbulingam Street would greatly benefit if commercial spaces that operate on Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai and the owners of vehicles parked in local streets do not disturb use these lanes.

- Subha V. Dilip, Mylapore

Tribute to chartered accountant G. Narayanaswamy

The passing away of the doyen of audit profession, G. Narayanaswamy leaves a void difficult to fill. He was a enlightened person in the profession and always keen to help its members to make their profession socially relevant.

Besides his active associ-ation with several Chambers of commerce and industry in the city, he will be remembered for his key role as the chairman of Rajaji Centre for Public Affairs till his last. The cen-tre periodically held public meetings and discussed issues of public concern - economy and development, electoral reforms, post-budg-et analysis and the like.

On these occasions, it was a delight to watch his manner of conducting the meetings, briefing the proceedings for the audience and his valediction. My condolences to the bereaved members of the family.

- S. Srinivasan, Mandaveli

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Photo: Subha V. DilipA. Dinakaran walked into our office the other day, sat

down and pulled out a long notebook from his bag. The kind of notebook we used to carry to our biology or drawing classes. Unruled. Jet white. Inviting to those of us who loved to draw. And jot down some notes alongside.

This man’s notebook was different. He had jotted down the neighbourhood travels he had made in the 60s. Every time he had walked to a new area in this city, he had first made rough drawings of the main road and the streets that ran off them, named them and plotted some legends too. Below the rough map as it were he had jotted down all that he observed in the area.

This was a fascinating personal document. But it wasn’t a rare one. For many of that generation, and a few of this do keep detailed notes in our diaries. Or special notepads.

This man’s notebook was slowly coming apart: like the fault lines that earthquakes create, the lines were breaking up some pages. He valued it. But now it was time to hand it over to us. Because he had read that Mylapore Times was collecting documents that would go to build an archive of Mylapore of the modern times.

Recently, veteran journalist Kalyan Arun who now teaches at Asian College of Journalism posted a memory of his summer holidays on the Madras Local History Group’s social media page. Holidays spent in Abiramapuram.

This is what he penned -Anyone in this group remembers Abiramapuram 2nd

Street? That’s what it was called before they renamed it C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer Road, before casting away the ‘Iyer’. My first memory is of 1960. Not far from its junction with Mowbray’s Road was Vyjayantimala’s bungalow with its imposing gates. And then vacant land till one reached the junction of Second Street and Dr. Rangachari Road, where you had the house of advocate Adiga ( I don’t remember his first name, for us he was only Adiga mama). Then, there was my maternal grand-father’s house. Our neighbour on the other side, I remember only as cricketer V. V. Kumar’s father-in-law.

Another open stretch of land before you reached Dr. San-jivi’s house. All these on the eastern side of the road. Don’t remember anything about the western side . . .

I have asked Arun to dig into his photo albums and surprise us with any form of photos he may have shot of this area. He doubts he has any but has promised to ask his mother - perhaps a photo shot during a family function at this Abiramapuram house.

In the Mylapore Times archives we have one small, soli-tary black and white photo of a little boy swinging his cricket bat on an open ground ( dry fields) in Abiramapuram, and a solitary house in this frame.

We are working hard to encourage senior Mylaporeans to donate originals or copies of local records - documents and photos - that can build the archives. People are sentimental at first and reluctant later. Sadly, these records are small value to most family members down the line and the files find their way to the waste bin or are sold along with the month’s newspapers.

The archives are not a personal project. We are catalysts. We are taking the initiative. Someone has to do the dirty work: collection of this kind is difficult work, And we want to be at it. Because these records will enrich our social histories that get erased, lost, smudged over time.

As a parallel exercise, we are also collecting stuff of this age - posters, bills, bus tickets, certificates, newsletters, book-lets, wedding and arangetram invitations, souvenir books, brochures and photos. These too will enrich the project.

Last Sunday, after the Mass at the church in Luz, parish priest Fr. Peter Thumma said their newsletter was available. I quickly got a copy of Pragasa Malar. And after a snack at a local, popular eatery, I asked its owner for a copy of their well-designed menu card. Both have gone into our files.

This project will succeed if Mylaporeans contribute, freely. So dig into your trunks and your files and if there are pictures or bills of the note and text books you bought for school at a local store in the 1970s, share them with us.


Descendants of pastor who built St. Thomas English Church pay visit: here from NZ

The 177-year-old CSI St. Thomas English Church at San Thome had special visitors from Warkworth, New Zealand on Sunday, September 22.

Jenni McGlashan (a great-great granddaughter of Rev. Robert Carver, the missionary who built the Church in 1842) and her husband Jim McGlashan vis-ited the church and participated in the Sunday morning worship service. They were warmly welcomed by the parishioners and felicitated.

Robert Carver was a Wesleyan Missionary who came to Madras soon after the death of his young wife Mary Carver in 1824 in Jaffna, Ceylon.

He ministered in this area of Madras and got close to the Europeans and the Indians settled here. He visited England only once, in 1834, when he married Frances Moore (Adams) at St. Giles Church in Oxford. The couple returned to Madras and ministered in San Thome.

Two sons were born to them, but only the eldest – Robert William Ind Carver, born in 1838 – survived. In 1842, Robert Carver was ordained and the church that he built (then known as St. Thomas-by-the-Sea) was consecrated.

He succumbed to sunstroke in 1845 and was buried under the altar of the Church. Frances Moore left for England along with 6-year-old William Ind Carver the same year. From there, they relocated to New Zealand in 1854. Robert William Ind Carver grew up and mar-ried Mary Ann in 1863 and they had 11 children. Their 9th child was Joshua Carver – the maternal grandfather of Jenni McGlashan. Jenni is the daughter of Mavis Carver – Rev. Robert Carver’s great-grand daughter!

The services rendered by Rev. Robert Carver in building this little, white Church on the San Thome shore were fondly remembered by the parishioners on Sunday.

A documentary film tracing the history of the Church, produced during the 175th year celebrations was also screened.- Report by Fabiola Jacob

Work is on at steady pace in the restoration of the heritage church in Luz called Our Lady of Light Church.

The front end of the church, first built in the early 16th century and enlarged later is now covered in a thatched structure to allow the workers to chip away the exterior. A few other civil works are also to be executed on this campus including putting up a new boundary wall that allows better view of the church.

Fr. Peter Thumma, parish priest here says he hopes the restoration will be over before Christmas. Over Rs.200 lakhs will be required to fund this project and a notice

board lists the main costs budgeted for the project and invites donors to the effort.

Meanwhile, a makeshift shamiana erected on the south side of the church serves as the temporary space, altar and all for the daily Masses and Sunday services.

Restoration at heritage church in Luz on at steady pace

CELEBRATING DR. ANNIE BESANT’S BIRTH ANNIVERSARY

Young Men’s Indian As-sociation will be celebrating the 173rd birth anniversary of Dr. Annie Besant and YMIA week from Oct. 1 to 4. On Oct. 1, the celebra-tions will be held at the YMIA Hall at R. H. Road, Mylapore. The chief guest is Dr. Cheyon, former director, All India Radio.

On Oct. 2, to mark Gandhi Jayanthi, K. Prab-hakharan, the honorary secretary will garland the statue of Mahatma Gan-dhi at South Mada Street, Mylapore. Physical Culture Day and Youth Activities Day programme will be held at the YMIA Hall on Oct. 3.

On Oct. 4, Dr. Latha Rajendiran, correspondent, Dr. MGR Janaki College for Women, is the chief guest at the programme to be held at P. S. School, Mylapore.

Dancer Vyjayantimala Bali has been honoured with many awards. And she deserves them.On Sept.21 morning, Tamil Nadu governor Banwarilal Purohit conferred the Saraswathi Puraskaram award on Vyjayantimala Bali at a short function held at the C. P. Ramaswami Iyer Foundation in Alwarpet. The Foundation has instituted this award.The Foundation’s president, Dr Nanditha Krishna was on the dais.

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By V. Padmasini

Differently-abled siblings S. Babu and S. Bharathi have not let their handicaps come in the way of making their lives.

They began taking tuitions at their Adam Street house in Mylapore. Now, they are marketing insurance services of companies.

Both were born with extremely short legs - the portions below the knee were strapped to their thighs making it impossi-ble for them to use them to walk.

Unemployment and some lows in life

turned Babu into a small-time business person. Though a graduate, he says he could not secure any employment because of his physical condition. Says Babu, “Some employers rejected me because of my physi-cal condition. At some places I personally encountered some problems. Sometimes I had to climb a flight of steps or the rest room was far away. So I decided to work

from home.”He launched a small

shop but business was dull and so he closed it. That is when his neighbour Muralidharan broached the idea of pro-viding insurance services from home. The duo have had some success and they hope Mylaporeans will call them for their services.

Says Babu, “Cus-tomers can send their policy details for renewal through Whatsapp to us and we will follow it up.”

Babu’s father Srini-vasan is a pillar of strength to them. The duo are joined by their mother for the tuitions for school children.

The siblings can be reached at 9952732223 (Babu), 9941072352( Bharathi)

Differently abled siblings take tuitions, now service insurance policies

RAGA IDENTIFICATION CONTEST FOR RASIKAS

The Music Academy - TAG raga identification competi-tion for rasikas will be held on Oct. 20 this year. This year, there is a plan to introduce an additional dimension - identifying the voice or the singer, say the organisers.

This competition is open to rasikas of all ages but per-forming musicians and advanced students of music cannot compete. A presentation on raga identification methods will be given by vocalist Amritha Murali.

For details email [email protected]. At T. T. K. Road, Alwarpet, 10 a.m.

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