MAMBALAM TIMES. The Neighbourhood Newspaper for T. Nagar & Mambalam. Vol. 18, No th Issue : March 30 - April 5, 2013

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1 MAMBALAM TIMES The Neighbourhood Newspaper for T. Nagar & Mambalam CMYK Vol. 18, No th Issue : March 30 - April 5, 2013 FREE

2 Page 2 MAMBALAM TIMES March 30 - April 5, 2013 T. NAGAR BAZAAR This column is intended to help small businesses in & around T.Nagar and West Mambalam to have a cost-effective advertisement medium. Advertisement in this section will be in standard panel sizes of 4 cm. x 1 column (costing only Rs. 500) and 4 cm. x 2 column (costing Rs. 1000) This space costs Rs. 500 only!

3 March 30 - April 5, 2013 MAMBALAM TIMES Page 3 Talks on Swami Vivekananda tomorrow Swami Brahmayoganandha (Founder, Yoga Shanthi Gurukulam, West Mambalam) will give a talk on the spiritual aspects of Swami Vivekananda on Sunday, March 31, at 4.30 p.m in Infosys Hall (R.K.M. Matriculation School, Bazullah Road, T. Nagar). S. Gurumoorthy (Columnist and Co-convener, Swadeshi Jagaran Manch) and R. B. V. S. Manian (State Vice-President, Vishwa Hindu Parishad) will give talks on Vivekananda s role in the spread of Hinduism. All are welcome. Radha Kalyanam in Sankara Mutt tomorrow Dindugal Kumar Baghavathar and party will perform Radha Kalyanam on Sunday, March 31, from 8 a.m to 1.30 p.m in Kanchi Sankara Mutt (Easwaran Kovil Street, West Mambalam). Following is the program: Saturday, March 30: 2.30 p.m onwards- Singing of gurukeerthanas and ashtapatis followed by divyanama sankeertanam and dolotsavam. Sunday, March 31: 7 a.m- Unchavarthi bhajans followed by Radha Kalyanam. All are welcome. Discourses on Saisath Saritha Under the auspices of Sri Shirdi Sai Meditation Mandir (6, Sarojini Street, T. Nagar) there are discourses on Sri Saisath Saritha at 6.30 p.m on Sundays in its premises. T. Thiruvalluvan (Founder) told Mambalam Times that mass spiritual healing is conducted at 7.30 p.m on Thursdays and Sundays. All are welcome. More details can be had in phones , and Vacant plot on Venkatesan Street misused A vacant plot located at the junction of Venkatesan Street and Nair Road (T. Nagar) is covered in bushes. Garbage is dumped into the plot and it is also used as a urinal by passersby. The compound wall is damaged in many places and the plot is misused Low hanging TV cable poses danger A low hanging TV cable is crossing the road at the junction of Giriappa Street and Vijayaraghava Road, T. Nagar and poses a danger to road users. Photo exhibition on TB in Sivan Park today Resource Group for Education and Advocacy for Community Health (REACH), an NGO, will exhibit a rare photo collection exploring the experiences of cured tuberculosis patients, from 4 p.m to 6 p.m on Saturday, March 30, in Sivan Park, K.K. Nagar. The exhibit was inaugurated by actor Jiiva on March 26 in Citi Centre, Mylapore in connection with World Tuberculosis Day. The director of REACH has appealed to workers of other NGOs caring for TB patients to come in person and witness the exhibition. by miscreants for nefarious activities at night time. Residents told Mambalam Times that they unable to trace the owner of the plot. With scanty rains last year during November, the storage levels in the city s reservoirs are precariously low now. Compared to the total storage of 7080 mcft (million cubic feet) on the same date last year, the storage on March 29 is only 4064 mcft. Poondi has a storage of 425 mcft as against its full capacity of 3231 mcft (2600 mcft on the same day last year); Cholavaram has 77 mcft as against its full capacity of 881 mcft (122 mcft last year); Red Hills has 1772 mcft as against its full capacity of 3300 mcft Swetaranyam sister s vocal concert on Sunday Under the auspices of Sadguru Gana Nilayam (Janakam Apartments, 180, Lake View Road, West Mambalam), Swetaranyam sisters R. Nithya and R. Vidya will present a vocal concert on Sunday, March 31, at 6.30 p.m in Thyagaraja Hall (SMR Matriculation School, Jothi Ramalingam Street, West Mambalam). Precarious storage levels in city s reservoirs (2326 mcft last year) and Chembarampakkam has 1790 mcft against its full capacity of 3645 mcft (2032 mcft last year). They will be accompanied by R. Kailasam on the violin, Tanjore Subramaniyam on the mridangam and N. Narasimhan on the ghatam. All are welcome.

4 Page 4 MAMBALAM TIMES March 30 - April 5, 2013 Temple car dragged by hundreds of devotees Hundreds of devotees dragged the temple car of Kasiviswanathar Temple (Kuppaiah Street, West Mambalam) on March 23 as part of Brahmotsavam celebrations. The temple car was taken along Kuppaiah Street, Madley Subway Service lane, K. R. Koil Street, Ellamiamman Koil Street, Gandhi Street and Easwaran Koil Street. RPF staff undergo training on safeguarding signaling equipment More than 25 RPF (Railway Police Force) officers and junior staff members underwent a training program on How to control the menace of tampering and theft of railway signal and telecommunication equipment conducted by Railway Signal and Telecommunication Department at Mambalam Railway Station on March 25. The training was conducted due to a number of recent incidents of tampering and theft of signal and telecommunication related equipment at railway stations leading to delay of train services. Bangalore-Chennai double decker train to be launched soon A new double decker train on the Chennai to Bangalore route is likely to start plying next month. The train has successfully completed two trial runs and was given clearance by the Railway Safety Board (Southern Railway). The train will have 12 coaches with a seating capacity of 120 each. The train is fitted with a special chassis of German make that prevents the coaches from piling up during collisions. The train is expected to take five-and-a-half hours to commute between the two metros but officials said it can be re- duced to four hours in future. The train will leave Chennai at 7.25 a.m and arrive at Bangalore City station at 1.20 p.m, Hundreds witness Thirukalyanam in TTD Hundreds of devotees witnessed Thirukalyanam performed to Lord Srinivasa and Thayar in Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (Venkatanarayana Road, T. Nagar) on March 27 on the occasion of Panguni Uthiram. Tampered units of equipment were used in training the participants and live examples Vendors on Annai Satya Bazaar down shutters and leave Bangalore at 2.40 p.m and arrive in Chennai at 8.45 p.m. The fare is Rs. 440 for adults. Sai bhajans on 3 days a week Sri Sathya Sai Samiti, T. Nagar conducts Sai bhajans every week in the following venues in T. Nagar: Sai Keshav Hall, 157, G. N. Chetty Road (near Panagal Park, Vijaya Bank building): Saturdays, 5 p.m. Ayurvedasramam, 155, G. N. Chetty Road (near Panagal Park), Mondays, 6 p.m. 50/38, Motilal Street (opposite Ranganathan Street), Wednesdays, 6 p.m. All are welcome. More details can be had from D. Srinivasa Rao ( ) or C. Ramamurthy ( ). The shops in Annai Satya Bazaar on the by lane between Ramanathan Street and Ranganathan Street (T. Nagar) remained closed on March 28 following a dispute with the residents of Ramanathan Street regarding the construction of an unauthorized compound wall. Grow more trees of the modus operandi used by miscreants were also demonstrated. Free Veda classes on Sundays Sri Sai Seva Chakra (15, Bharathi Street, West Mambalam) conducts free Veda classes from 6.30 a.m to 7.30 a.m on Sundays in Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, Maharajapuram Santhanam Salai, T. Nagar. Veda classes are conducted from 3.30 p.m to 4.30 p.m on Sundays in Sai Seva Chakra s premises. All are welcome. More details can be had in phone High mast lamp at Model House Road junction inaugurated The new 8-light high mast lamp post erected inside the round tana at the junction of Model House Road and 5 th Main Road (C.I.T Nagar, Nandanam) is now functional. It was inaugurated by Mayor Saidai Duraiswamy on March 20. CMYK

5 March 30 - April 5, 2013 MAMBALAM TIMES Page 5 TAMIL CINEMA 75 - A LOOK BACK By RANDOR GUY TAMIL CINEMA AND MUSIC - 50 The production office of Kalamegam was situated in a bungalow on Sir Desikachari Road with an entrance on Luz Church Road in Mylapore. It was known as Banker Narayana Iyer Bungalow. The producers were Madurai Dandapani Films and Salem Mohini Pictures and the bosses were music-lovers and fans of Rajaratnam. Dungan found Rajaratnam warm and friendly. When he was sober he was fine and took direction well with interest, but when he was lit he could not be controlled and proved a nuisance and pest on the set. As he was a big gun, people treated him like some kind of god! As he did not know English, I had to communicate with him through my assistants P. S. Chettiar and S. G. Iyer. However when he was sober he would apologize for his unruly conduct. I also found that he was very fond of women! But then who is not? Dungan told this writer in As the hero Rajaratnam had to sing and he did. Quite a many songs! They were in ragas, Shuddhasaveri, Hindustani Kapi, Hamsanandhi, Behag, Nadhanamakriya, Ananda Bhairavi, Kalyani, Hindolam, Thodi, Kaanada and Shanmughapriya. The music was composed by the Harmonium Master R. S. Chinnaiah and lyrics were by the famed Tamil poet, scholar, social activist and all, Puratchi Kavingnar Bharathidasan of Pondicherry. One of the members of the orchestra of this film was the later day noted violinist, Madras V. Govindaswamy Naicker. During the 1930s and the early 1940s, he worked regularly in films as an instrumentalist before he found his feet in the world of classical Carnatic music. As Rajaratnam was a living legend as a nagaswaram genius, he had to play the instrument in the film since the producers felt that the viewers would expect him to do so. Therefore the film had a scene in which the poet went round the village playing nagaswaram! The real Kavi Kalamegam would certainly turn in his grave but nobody cared! As Alfred Hitchcock is reported to have said, Ingrid, it s only a movie! N. S. Krishnan played the accompanying otthu ( the drone ) which he had learnt earlier. As Dungan put it, He played with perfection without losing his breath. Rajaratnam paid him high compliments and offered Krishnan that job in his team! Dungan told this writer that Rajaratnam sought perfection in his singing and insisted on many takes at the recording sessions. Besides perfection in the rendering of the tunes and ragas, he was equally keen about his diction and accent of the high-flown, jaw-breaking Tamil lyrics of a leading poet like Bharathidasan. In the credit titles of the film and song-book, the hero was mentioned as Akhila India Nathaswara Vidwan T. N. Rajaratnam. Technically the film was good, according to its director. A sequence in which a village is swept away in a sand storm as willed by Kalamegam was shot on Elliot s Beach. Dungan erected sets at great expense and staged the sand storm using giant fans and propellers. It was quite a feat to achieve in when there were hardly any technical facilities to shoot such scenes in Madras. Released in 1940, Kalamegam disappointed moviegoers of South India. In spite of the nagaswaram maestro, Elllis R. Dungan s technical wizardry and all, the film failed to draw crowds. People did not like Rajaratnam singing and they felt that he should stick to his nagaswaram in which he had no equals. The film lost heavily and Rajaratnam lost hopes of making more films. He went back to his nagaswaram and continued to scale more peaks of success. During this period, spurred by Rajaratnam s film, another great nagaswaram vidwan, Thiruvengadu Subramania Pillai, announced a film to be produced by him with himself as the hero. But it did not take off beyond a few ads. (To be continued) REQUEST TO READERS! Please help us to serve you better! Mambalam Times is being delivered free at every doorstep in this neighbourhood week after week. If our delivery boy skips your house or flat in any week, please call between a.m and 5 p.m on week days to enable us to take effective and immediate remedial action. Veteran actress Sukumari passes away Oru Iravu. Her last film was 3G in Malayalam. Her role in the movie Namma Gramam won her the 2011 National award for the best supporting actress. She has also won four State film awards. In 2003, she was awarded the Padma Shree. Veteran actress Sukumari (resident of B. N. Road, T. Nagar) passed away on March 26 at a private hospital in Chennai where she was undergoing treatment for burn injuries. She had suffered the injuries when her saree accidentally caught fire while lighting the traditional lamp at a function in Chennai on Feb. 20. She was admitted with 45% burn injuries. She was 72, and had been a resident of T. Nagar for more than 20 years. She is survived by her son Suresh Bhim Singh. Her husband Bhim Singh (a film producer and director) had died when she was in her 30s. The body was kept in her T. Nagar residence on March 27 for her fans and other dignitaries to pay homage. Her acting career, which primarily was with the Malayalam film industry, spanned over six decades. She had acted in more than 2,500 movies in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi and a few movies in Bengali and Oriya as well. She was also a good stage artist and had acted in more than 5,000 plays in Malayalam and Tamil. She played the lead female role in 20 plays written by Cho. Ramaswamy and in most of the plays of Y. G. Parthasarathy troupe. She had co-starred with almost all the leading actors of her time. Four of her co-stars NTR, MGR, Janaki and Jayalalitha went on to become Chief Ministers. She was influenced by her paternal aunts Lalitha, Padmini and Ragini, (popularly known as Travancore Sisters) to take up acting. She made her film debut at the age of 10 in the Tamil film THAMBRAAS to release new Panchangam Tamilnadu Brahmin Association (K. K. Nagar unit) will release Vijaya Varusham Panchangam at 3 p.m on Sunday, April 7, at Saranam Hall (Ayyappan Temple, Ponnambalam Salai, K. K. Nagar). K. S. Krishnamurthy (President, Chennai District, Thambraas) will release the panchangam. All are welcome. For details of pricing and availability, please contact Saraswathi Nagarajan in ,000 copies of this edition are delivered FREE every Saturday! CMYK

6 Page 6 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertise in the Classified Columns: Rs. 300 (upto 35 words): Rs. 600 (upto 70 words): Bold letters: Rs. 450; display: Rs.160 per column Centimeter Ashok Nagar-K.K.Nagar & Mambalam - T. Nagar Editions: Rs. 350 (upto 35 words); Bold letters: Rs. 525; Display: Rs. 240 per column centimeter. Advertisements will be received upto 1 p.m on Friday. ACUPUNCTURE SPEEDY recovery for diabetes, blood pressure, kidney failure, heartburn, asthma, allergy, hip, knee, heel pains, migraine, gastritis, ulcers, sinusitis, pimples, wrinkles, breast development, facelift etc. Dr. T. C. Chandra Babu, M.D., No. 5, Ramasamy Street, T. Nagar & No. 49, Thacker Street, Purasawalkam, next to Saravanas). Ph: , , AIR CONDITIONERS WE undertake service, repairs, maintenance of Indian, Imported, window, split Air-Conditioners, annual maintenance contract. For window- Rs. 1000, split Rs. 1500, window, split A/c available for rent. Contact: Weather Coolers. 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SADANAND Having admitted defeat after a 65-year war against good old fiery summer in my adopted city of Madras, I escaped to the less lethal Bengaluru to cool my body and fool the unknown devil - climate - which outrivals the political ethos of good old India that is a lunatic asylum of myriad tongues thoughts, Cascas, Kasabs, Gurus and the many unhanged countrymen of good old India that I sailed into just after Hitler with his tooth-brush moustache awoke one bad morning in Germany and shouted Kill all the suckers. My father, who was working in Nairobi in the British Emperor s Postal Service as the P.A. to the Postmaster General, packed off his family of five by a ship named Esipingo. It sailed from Mombasa to Madras via Colombo for some mysterious reason, while Bombay was easier and nearer India than Colombo, unless the shipping company wanted to fleece the escapees. Hitler had been born mad, but it gave me the chance to visit Colombo of which I remember seeing Buddha idols or statues by the hundreds. All the present day killers, except the scions of good old Ravanan, would not have been born then. We bought two replicas of black elephants carved in wood before we left the harbour to continue our journey to Madras. I still have one gifted by my sister to remind me always of the elephentine folly of Rulers of Ceylon. Any lurking doubt whether Hitler or the direct descendents of Ravanan deserved the Order of the Devil award was dissolved yesterday when, on Neethi s home-theatre DVD, we saw Maniratnam s all time classic Kannathil Muthamittaal, supplemented by a Channel-4 documentary film named Srilanka s Killing Fields depicting the true Hitlerian happenings of very recent times that would have shamed a beastly coffle of Ghengis Khan, Timor, Hitler and barbarians of the ilk of Idi Amin. Channel-4 takes the cake. Protruding tree trunk poses danger By Our Staff Reporter A leaning avenue tree on the road margin at the junction of Nair Road and Raman Street (T. Nagar) was cut long ago. However nearly 5 feet of its trunk, still rooted to the ground, which was left uncut is protruding into the road MAMBALAM TIMES Advertisement Rates BLACK & WHITE: Full Page :Rs. 29,000 Half Page :Rs. 16,000 Per Column Centimeter: Rs. 160 Classified Display: Rs. 160 per cm Third Page: Rs. 190 to motorists thereby posing a danger to motorists, especially at night. The Traffic Department has painted the protruding portion in white to warn the motorists at night. Domestic workers protest against exploitation Domestic worker representatives from different parts of Chennai including those attached to Domestic Workers Welfare Association (T. Nagar) took part in a protest outside Government Guest House, Anna Salai, on March 27 demanding better work benefits. A minimum wage of Rs. 50 per hour, weekly-offs, notice before termination of service, paid holidays and medical benefits were some of the demands made. Talking to reporters, Clara (State Coordinator for Tamilnadu Domestic Workers Federation) said that domestic employees are exploited in many ways and overworked. She handed over copies of memorandum with the demands to the State Labour Minister, Secretary to the Labour Department and Commissioner of Labour. Similar protests will be held in the coming weeks to highlight the plight of the workers, she added. COLOUR: Full Page :Rs. 36,000 Half Page :Rs. 19,000 Ear Panel on Page 1 Rs Per Column cm Rs. 190 First Page : Rs. 240 Last Page : Rs /3, Madley Road, T. Nagar. Ph: , , mambalamtimes@yahoo.co.in Web: MAMBALAM TIMES Editor K. S. Ramakrishnan Asst. Advt. Manager E. Srinivasan Advt. Representative S. N. Kumar Accountant P. Muralidharan

7 March 30 - April 5, 2013 MAMBALAM TIMES Page 7 SPECIAL CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Classified Advertisements under the heads Accommodation Required, Old Age Home, Marriage Hall, Mini Hall, Real Estate (Buying & Selling) and Rental will be published on this page. The charges are Rs. 500 (upto 35 words); Bold Rs Ashok Nagar- K.K. Nagar & Mambalam- T.Nagar Editions; Display: Rs. 240 per col. centimeter. Each advertisement of Real Estate and Rental must relate to only MINI HALL T. NAGAR, EVP s Hall (A/c), Pondy Bazaar, available for ( capacity), exhibition, party, family function, conference etc., 40 rooms also available. Ph: , T. NAGAR, Sri Malola Mini Hall, New No. 174, Habibullah Road, near Kodambakkam Railway Station, available for small functions, non A/c. Ph: , , , WEST MAMBALAM, Mahadevan Street (State Bank Building), 2 Halls Kamakshi Mini Hall A/c (100 guests), Kamakshi Hall A/c (200 guests). Ph: , , , MINI hall (A/c), available for meeting, seminar, party at Fountain Plaza, Egmore, affordable rate Rs (A/c), Rs (Non A/c) for half day, ample parking, LCD projector and food undertaken / arranged. Ph: , , OLD AGE HOME SENIOR citizens home in Keelkattalai, 3 times food, 2 times coffee, food prepared by Brahmins, bed-ridden allowed, normal citizens Rs. 6000, bed-ridden Rs , very near temple, hospital, bus stand, doctor, attendant available. Ph: , , REAL ESTATE (SELLING) WEST MAMBALAM, Postal Colony, 2 bedrooms, hall, kitchen, 670 sq.ft, ground floor flat, 26 years old, no brokers. Ph: ASHOK NAGAR, 7 th Avenue, apartment used as office, 1300 sq.ft, fully renovated, price Rs. 91 lakhs. Ph: one house / flat. Advertisement will be received upto 1.00 p.m on Friday. RENTAL WEST MAMBALAM, Janakiraman Street, 2 bedroom, hall, kitchen, 2 nd floor flat, no lift, rent Rs , advance 6 months. Ph: , WEST MAMBALAM, Krishnan Street, near Perumal Kovil, 1100 sq.ft, 2 nd floor apartment, 3 bedrooms, hall, modular kitchen, fully woodwork, 2-wheeler parking, vegetarians/brahmins only, rent Rs (negotiable). Contact: Agent. Ph: , CHOOLAIMEDU, Bajanai Koil Street, above Muthoot Finance, 3 rooms, 750 sq.ft, 3 rd floor, rent Rs. 16,000, commercial / bachelors. Ph: , WEST MAMBALAM, Lake View Road, near Railway Station, 1 bedroom, hall, kitchen, ground floor apartment, bath attached, car parking, rent Rs. 8,200, advance Rs. 50,000, tiled floor, family / bachelors also. Ph: , K. K. NAGAR, No. 5, Model House Road, Double Tank Colony, off. Dr. Ramasamy Salai, 3 bedrooms, hall, kitchen, 1500 sq.ft, individual house, car parking, rent Rs , only IT professionals / teachers / bank employee. Ph: , T. NAGAR, Dr. Thomas Road, 2 nd Street, near Late Shivaji Ganesan s House, 1 bedroom, hall, kitchen, 2 nd floor, vegetarians, no brokers. Ph: WEST MAMBALAM, Ram Colony, adjacent to Hindu Vidyalaya, 2 bedrooms, hall, kitchen, 725 sq.ft, 3 rd floor flat, vegetarians only, 2-wheeler parking. Ph: , WEST MAMBALAM, Old No. 91, New No. 9, Lake View Road 2 nd Lane, near Bharathi Ram Kalyana Mandapam, 2 bedrooms, hall, kitchen, study & pooja room, approx 1100 sq.ft, ground floor, 2-wheeler parking, Brahmins / vegetarians. Ph: , WEST MAMBALAM, K. V. Colony 2 nd Street, 2 bedrooms, hall, kitchen, 600 sq.ft, 2 nd floor flat, 2- wheeler parking, small Brahmin family only, rent Rs , advance 10 months, advance negotiable, occupation from 1 st April Ph: , KODAMBAKKAM, Aziz Nagar Main Road, near Rangarajapuram, 2 bedrooms, hall, kitchen, ground floor, rent Rs , vegetarians only, no brokers. Ph: T. NAGAR, Natesan Street, single bedroom, hall, kitchen, balcony, vegetarians preferred, rent Rs. 7000, no brokers, ready to occupy. Ph: WEST MAMBALAM, Postal Colony, near Hindu Vidyalaya, 2 bedrooms, hall, kitchen, 1 st floor, furnished, Brahmins only, no brokers. Ph: T. NAGAR, Valmiki Street, 3 rooms, kitchen, bathroom, toilet, independent house, side portion, ground floor, rent Rs. 8000, Brahmins only. Ph: , WEST MAMBALAM, Govindan Road, near K.S.N. Super Market, 750 sq.ft, 1 st floor flat, rent Rs , 2-wheeler parking only, woodwork, fans, geyser. Ph: T. NAGAR, Shivaji Street, near Bus Stand, single bedroom, 2 nd floor, woodwork, furnished, covered 2-wheeler parking, 24 hours water, rent Rs , bachelors only. Ph: , OBITUARY K. NATARAJAN K. Natarajan (resident of 3/2, Meeraj Apts., Baroda 2 nd Street, West Mambalam) passed away on March 23. He was 84, and had been a resident of West Mambalam for more than 65 years. He had retired from LIC. He is survived by his wife N. Meenakshi, sons N. Ramakrishnan and N. Balakrishnan, daughters WEST MAMBALAM, Vivekanandhapuram 1 st Street, near Ayodhya Mandapam, 2 bedrooms, hall, kitchen, 605 sq.ft, ground floor flat, occupation from 1 st May Ph: WEST MAMBALAM, Kamakshipuram 2 nd Street, close to Ashok Nagar, 2 bedrooms, hall, kitchen, pooja room, 3 attached bathrooms, independent ground floor, rent Rs. 20,000 (negotiable), Brahmins only, contact on Sunday from 9 a.m to 5 p.m. Ph: , WEST MAMBALAM, Kuppiah Street, near Railway Station & Bus Stand, 2 bedrooms, hall, kitchen, 626 sq.ft, 1 st floor, furnished, 3 phase connection, with window A/c, rent Rs , 2- wheeler parking, Brahmins only, no brokers. Ph: KODAMBAKKAM, Viswanathapuram 1 st Street, single bedroom, hall, kitchen, attached bathroom, rent Rs. 8000, car parking, lift, Iyengars only, no brokers. Ph: T. NAGAR, Abdul Azeez Street, near Burkit Road & TTD Centre, 2 bedrooms, hall, kitchen, 3 rd floor, no lift, rent Rs. 12,000, advance 5 months. Contact: Kannan. Ph: , K. K. NAGAR, 10 th Sector, near Pondicherry Guest House, 3 bedrooms, 2 bath attached (2 bedrooms), 880 sq.ft, 1 st floor, rent Rs. 12,000. Ph: , T. NAGAR, Mahalakshmi Street, near Bus Stand, 2 bedrooms, hall, kitchen, rent Rs. 16,000, vegetarians only, no brokers, visit on Saturday & Sunday only. Ph: T. NAGAR, Habibullah Road, 3 bedrooms, hall, kitchen, 1750 sq.ft, 3 rd floor, fully furnished, A/c, lift, gym, yoga classes, covered car park, MNC company guest house only. Ph: T. NAGAR, Mahalakshmi Street, hall cum bedroom, kitchen, 350 sq.ft, independent portion, toilets, rent Rs. 5,500, Brahmins only, contact owner on Sunday. Ph: WEST MAMBALAM, 4/52, Eswaran Koil Street, near Sree Narayana Mission Higher Secondary School, double bedroom, hall, kitchen, 650 sq.ft, ground floor. Ph: S. Jayalakshmi, S. Padmavathi and M. Anuradha and grandchildren. S. VENKATRAMAN S. Venkatraman (resident of 27/5, Vivekanandapuram 1 st Street, West Mambalam) passed away on March 24. He was 72, and had been a resident of West Mambalam for more than 60 years. He is survived by his brothers Sankaran and Swaminathan and sisters Savithri and Thirupuram. General Hospital offers free treatment to stroke patients Government General Hospital (opposite Central Station) is providing free thrombolysis treatment (which usually costs around Rs. 1 lakh) to patients who have suffered stroke. The treatment is covered under the Chief Minister s comprehensive health insurance scheme. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Vendors construct unauthorized compound wall Sir, I am a resident of Ramanathan Street (T. Nagar) and Secretary of our Residents Association. Annai Satya Bazaar is located in a narrow bylane between Ramanathan Street and Ranganathan Street (T. Nagar). The traders in the bazaar are doing a roaring business and the lane is usually crowded. The rear portion of the houses on our street (Ramanathan Street) adjoins Satya Bazaar and most of them also have a gate on this side. So these houses have a dual advantage of having access both from its front side on Ramanathan Street and also from the rear side on the bylane. Following the opening of Satya Bazzar, the residents are not regular in using the access on the bylane. On March 20, without any official permission or notice to the residents, the traders of Satya Bazzar started constructing a compound wall, thereby blocking our access to the bylane. Despite several objections raised by our Association, the traders did not relent and went ahead with the construction. Sir, At a time when the doctors fee and the cost of medicines take a heavy toll in the budget of a common man, our own Chennai Corporation, probably knowing very well that laughter is a good The Association then approached the Zonal Officer, Zone 10 (Chennai Corporation) who deputed one of his inspectors for verification the next day. Even though he gave oral orders to stop the work, the vendors continued the construction. The Association then filed a complaint at the local police station. The construction of the compound wall is illegal and it encroaches on public space. Since the sewer lines/manholes are located close to the already existing compound wall, construction of another wall would prevent CMWSSB from undertaking desilting/repair work. Further, the pathway to Satya Bazaar is already narrow, and the construction of a second wall will make it still narrower, and, in case of any untoward incident taking place, there could be a heavy toll, as the bazaar is most of the time overcrowded. We appeal to the Corporation to take immediate steps to stop this illegal construction and restore the rights of the residents of our street. M. Basheer, Secretary, Ramanathan Street Residents Association Street name boards aplenty with spelling mistakes medicine, provides a recipe that too free of cost, to keep people laughing. One just needs to take a look at street name boards and observe the funny spelling mistakes to have a hearty laugh. Sample this: Soundararajan Street is misspelt as Sounarjan Street at its one end and as Soundarjan Street at the other. Motilal Street is written as Modhilal Street and Dhandapani Street as Thandabani Street. V. S. Jayaraman, 31, Motilal Street, T. Nagar

8 Page 8 March 30 - April 5, 2013 Std. 10 board exam begins A teacher was seen giving worn on the idol of Lord last minute advice to the stu- Hanuman in a nearby temple. dents scheduled to take the Std. 10 Board exam on March 27 in Jaigopal Garodia Vidyalaya (Postal Colony 4th Street, West Mambalam). The students of GRT Mahalakshmi Vidyalaya (Ashok Nagar) were seen writing Sri Rama Jayam to invoke divine blessing before entering the exam hall. A teacher told Mambalam Times that the Sri Rama Jayam notes written by the students will be made into a garland which will be Edited & Published by K.S. Ramakrishnan. Office: 7/3, Madley Road, T. Nagar, Chennai 17. Ph: , Printed by Ramesh Adityan at Powerfull Printers, 74, Kannappan Street, Aminijikarai, Chennai 29. CMYK MAMBALAM TIMES