MAMBALAM TIMES ASHOK NAGAR - K.K. NAGAR EDITION. Free Dental cancer camp today

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1 MAMBALAM C M Y K Vol. 11, No. 3 The body of Dhanush (7), who went missing on July 17 from outside his house in Nesapakkam, was found floating in the Cooum in MGR Nagar on July 25. Police are investigating to determine whether the boy drowned accidentally or was murdered. Police said Dhanush, who was speech impaired, was last seen on July 17 evening of playing outside his grandfather s house on Rajiv Gandhi Street, Khan Nagar. Dhanush had been living there after his mother died and his father abandoned him. When he went missing, Dhanush s relatives lodged a complaint and pasted posters around the locality. TIMES ASHOK NAGAR - K.K. NAGAR EDITION Missing boy s body found in river Police launched a search for the boy. Around 8 a.m. on July 25, residents near the Cooum bridge in Annai Sathya Nagar, MGR Nagar, spotted the body floating on the water. Police were informed and a team fished the body out. The body was sent to the Government Royapettah Hospital for a post-mortem examination. Police suspected that the body could be that of Dhanush and called his family who identified it. A case of unnatural death was registered. When his mother committed suicide in 2005, Dhanush, then just 2 years old, remained in the room with his mother s body for more than 12 hours before being rescued. He stopped speaking at the time. Free Dental cancer camp today Rotary Club of Madras North West, RMD Palliative Care Trust (T. Nagar) and Government Dental College and Hospital have organized a free screening camp on Dental cancer at 9.30 a.m on Sunday, July 29 in Government Higher Secondary School, Anna Main Road, MGR Nagar. The camp will be inaugurated by S. Ramakrishna (Commissioner of Income Tax). An awareness program on Dental cancer and palliative care will also be conducted. phone MP provides new bus-stop shelters on 2 roads FREE Steel bus-stop shelters have been installed on 1 st Avenue and on 11 th Avenue in Ashok Nagar at a cost of Rs. 11 lakhs each with funds from the constituency development fund of Chitlapakkam C. Rajendran (South Chennai MP). He told Mambalam Times that Five Lights, the popular landmark at the junction of Corporation Colony (Kodambakkam), Thambaiah Road and Chakrapani Street in West Mambalam will be replaced with a new set of 5 lights atop a high-mast at a cost of Rs. 7 lakhs from the fund He said that the old lights, which have seen enough service, are not bright enough now. He appealed to residents to contact him for any assistance in phone

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3 MAMBALAM TIMES: Ashok Nagar - K.K.Nagar Edition Page 3 Tree topples over when roots are trimmed Free Tamil plays Rubbish bin needs help today Dummies Drama, a 15-yearold Tamil theater group, will stage two plays on Sunday, July 29 in Ramarau Kala Mantap (Karnataka Sangha School premises), Habibullah Road, T. Nagar. The comedy play titled Memory Minus will be staged at 4 p.m and Parikshai (family drama) at 7 p.m. A peepul tree near a temple in a marriage hall on Giri Street in West Mambalam toppled over and came to rest on the top of a vehicle parked outside when its roots were trimmed at 2.30 p.m on July 25. The tree was growing be- Annamacharya Sankeerthanam this evening Under the auspices of PRC Charities, Aluru Rajamohan will be present Annamacharya Sankeerthanam at 6.30 p.m on Sunday, July 29 in PRC Centenary Hall, 11, Venkataraman Street, T. Nagar. phone Talk in Aurobindo Society Dr. Balasandilyan will speak on Aurobindo at a.m on Sunday, July 29 in Sri Aurobindo Society, 5, Smith Road, Anna Salai (near TVS bus-stop). M. K. Ramaswamy gives explanations on Mother s prayers and meditation from 6.30 p.m to 7 p.m on Saturdays. All are welcome Free Veda classes during weekends Free Veda classes are conducted from 6.30 a.m to 7.30 a.m on Saturdays and Sundays in Krishna Gana Sabha, Maharajapuram Santhanam Salai, T. Nagar. phone tween the compound wall of the marriage hall and the temple (Sri Sakthi Vinayagar Temple). Workers were trimming the outgrowing roots when the tree toppled over. The trunk fell across the compound wall and the top portion came to rest on top of the van. The van escaped with minor damage as the weight of tree was taken by the wall. Luckily no one was hurt. A number of vehicles of commercial establishments can be found parked nearby. Free tickets can be booked online at or picked up at the venue (subject to availability). Gayathri homam on Thursday There will be Gayathri homam during Gayathri japam from 6 a.m on Thursday, Aug. 2 in Sankara Madam, West Mambalam. Poornahuthi will be at 8.30 a.m. More details can be had from M. Jayaraman in Vehicles use No parking area under flyover A number of 2-wheelers can be found parked in the No parking area under the Usman Road flyover in T. Nagar which used to be used earlier for parking cars of those visiting the showrooms opposite. Free ayurveda camp next Sunday South Madras Walkers and Joggers Association (Natesan Park, Venkatanarayana Road, T. Nagar) has organized a free ayurveda medical camp from 6.30 a.m to a.m on Sunday, Aug. 5 in the park. Doctors from a private Thematic concert this evening Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam will be present a thematic music concert at 6 p.m on Sunday, July 29 in Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, Maharajapuram Santhanam Salai, T. Nagar. She will be accompanied by H. N. Bhaskar (violin), J. Vaidyanathan (mridangam) and B. S. Purushotam (ganjira). ayurvedic hospital will examine the patients. phones and A helpline number has been painted on all rubbish bins to enable residents to report piling up of garbage but this damaged bin on Postal Colony 3 rd Street, West Mambalam seems to be itself in need of help. Naaliyara Dhivya Prabandham from Tuesday Deskian (resident of 8, 2 nd Main Road, East CIT Nagar) will conduct Naaliyara Dhivya Prabandham from 7 p.m to 8 p.m daily from Tuesday, Aug. 1 onwards. phone Special Aadi poojas in Siva- Vishnu Temple There will be 108 kuthuvillaku pooja and Saptha kannigal pooja at 6.30 p.m on Friday, Aug. 3 in Sri Siva-Vishnu Temple, Usman Road, T. Nagar on the occasion of Aadi Friday. phone

4 Page 4 MAMBALAM TIMES: Ashok Nagar - K.K.Nagar Edition Mambalam resident involved in research on God particle Rajivalochan Subramaniam (resident of 34/31, Kripasankari Street, West Mambalam) considered himself a failure in a US university before rediscovering himself in the field of high energy physics. A Ph.D was once a distant dream for Rajiv. It is the support of his father A. Subramanian, a retired government officer, and mother Latha and his grandparents, that enabled him to pursue his dream in CERN, Geneva. After schooling in Sri Sitaram Vidyalaya (2001) and Shri Ahobila Mutt Oriental School (2003) in West Mambalam, where he grew up on mathematics, he studied Electrical and Electronics Engineering in Bannari Amman Institute of Technology in Sathyamangalam. His finalyear project was funded by the Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology in In August 2008, Rajiv joined the Electrical Engineering Master s program in Louisiana Tech University, USA, where he got partial scholarship. In the US, there is an option to design one s master s curriculum, and Rajiv chose a combination of research and academics. A majority of Indian students in the university chose the academics option as most of them are interested in a job. Having made a tough decision, I struggled during my first year of MS, he says. The open book tests were more difficult than the closed book ones and the research work in electrodynamics made no sense to him. After nine months he quit that research, realizing he was not cut out for electrodynamics. This statement of Einstein came to his mind then: Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. One year on American soil ended in the Fall of All of my educational loan was spent and I was depleted financially and morally. My self-confidence was very low during this time as I considered myself a failure, recalls Rajiv. It was during this hard period that he met his current adviser/professor Dr. Markus Wobisch who is involved in high energy physics. At that time he did not know that his life was going to change. Prof. Wobisch was working with the U.S. Fermi National Lab located in Chicago and Rajiv s electri- cal background was good for high energy physics research. Even for the very minor results that I showed him, he encouraged me to such an extent that I really gained confidence in life. This moral support pushed him to become a successful Ph.D student. Seeing his progress, the department chair, Dr. Lee Sawyer decided to involve him in mankind s biggest collaborative experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). And that is how he started working at the ATLAS detector in the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, exactly two years before the discovery of the Higgs bosonlike particle. In July 2010, he arrived at CERN. CERN is an underground lab which spans the Franco-Swiss border with a circumference of 27 km. and is 100 meters under the ground. At CERN, students, academicians and scientists do collaborative work for common goals. CERN tries to answer fundamental questions about the universe. The Standard Model is a basic model in modern physics. It lists and classifies all fundamental particles and forces, many of which were discovered at CERN. There were many parallel experiments at CERN and one of the main goals was to search for the Higgs boson. The universe is filled with a field called the Higgs Field and the particles of the field are called Higgs bosons. Assume that a swimming pool is the universe and a HO molecule is equivalent to a Higgs Boson. As you cannot see water molecule in a swimming pool you cannot see the Higgs boson in the Higgs Field. About 48 years ago, Peter Higgs and a few other scientists postulated this theory. The mathematics behind the theory was so wonderful that people started liking it.when most scientists agreed on the idea and were able to convince governments, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment came to life in The Indian government has spent USD 40 million for the experiment and about 100 Indians have played a substantial role in the experiment. The total budget of the project is $10 billion. It took 20 years of hard work by over 10,000 scientists around the world to build these pyramids of the 21st Century. Along with students from India, other Indians studying in the U.S. and universities around the world also contribute to a great extent. After years of hard work we started taking data in 2010 March. By the end of 2011, there was no success but we got a few hints about the mass of the particle. In 2012 March- June, we started seeing positive results, says Rajiv who personally contributed by selecting the interesting data to be recorded for detailed study, called trigger system in scientific terms. Courtesy The Hindu. Conservancy operations in all zones to be privatised The Chennai Corporation Council on July 25 approved the proposal for gradual privatisation of conservancy operations in all zones of the city. Conservancy operations in zones such as Teynampet, Kodambakkam, Adyar and parts of Ambattur have already been privatised. As part of the efforts of the Chennai Corporation to shortlist suitable technology for remediation and scientific closure of the Perungudi and Kodungaiyur dump yards, the civic body also sought privatisation of conservancy operations in all the 15 zones. The action was initiated a few months ago in the wake of the National Green Tribunal setting aside the environmental clearance granted by the Tamilnadu Government to the integrated solid waste management facility in Perungudi. Apart from the initiative of reversing the environmental damage in Perungudi and Kodungaiyur, the civic body had invited expression of interest for two more solid waste management initiatives from multinational companies. This included the design of a scalable and modular plant with a future capacity of processing 10,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste per day. The scope of work in privatisation of conservancy operations covers street cleaning and door-to-door collection of garbage. All the three initiatives are proposed to be in the public-private partnership mode. The portions of land identified in Kuthambakkam, Malaiapattu and Minjur are likely to be used for the solid waste management initia- The Tamilnadu Government has sanctioned Rs. 25 crores to upgrade facilities in the cardiothoracic surgery and cardiology department of the Government Children s Hospital in Egmore. The Government has proposed that this be declared a Centre of Excellence, said P. Moorthy, head of the department. The hospital, which is attached to the Institute of Child Health, is the only referral center run by the government for paediatric cardiac ailments. Usually the department sees 100 cases daily. Some children come with complex problems requiring specific investigations, and for this we need stateof-the art facilities, the cardiothoracic surgeon added. He said that of every 1,000 live births, eight children have cardiac diseases. At present, the cardiology department performs one open-heart surgery and two- tives. 31 companies had initially expressed interest in participating in three tenders floated by Chennai Corporation in March and 18 were shortlisted. The private conservancy operators in charge of other zones will be identified after a few weeks. Courtesy The Hindu Central Government pensioners meet The 44 th annual general body meeting of All India Central Government Pensioners Association (3, Radhakrishnan Street, T. Nagar) will be conducted from 9 a.m on Saturday, Aug. 4 in the auditorium behind the office of the Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Ayakar Bhavan, Nungambakkam High Road. All pensioners are welcome. telephone numbers / Talk on Vallalar on Wednesday Under the auspices of Vallalar Thondu Niruvanam (165/ 8, 10 th Street, Annai Sathya Nagar, Nesapakkam), Kumbakonam Mu. Gopala Ramanan will give a talk on Thiru Arutpa Ingitha Maalai at 6 p.m on Wednesday, Aug. 1 (full moon day). Prof. Aranga Ramalingam will give a talk on Thiru Arutpa Pirivaatramai at 6 p.m on Thursday, Aug. 2 in the same venue. phone Rs. 25 crore-upgrade for ICH s cardiology department closed heart surgeries every day, but there is always a long waiting list of patients. The funds will be used to build two floors and a modular stateof-the art operation theater. The hospital will also procure equipment worth Rs. 18 crores, including a cath lab. It has also proposed to establish an intensive care unit with 12 beds. The Health Department has also sanctioned 49 new posts for cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiologists, anaesthesiologists, cath lab technicians, nurses and hospital workers, said V. Kanagasabai (Dean, Madras Medical College. The institute is affiliated to MMC. These additional facilities will reduce the waiting list of patients. We will do three openheart surgeries and four-closed heart surgeries per day, when the new facilities are in place, Dr. Kanagasabai added. 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5 MAMBALAM TIMES: Ashok Nagar - K.K.Nagar Edition Relay fast for Jan Lokpal Bill Page 5 C M Y K Members of India Against Corruption led by Anna Hazare are on a relay fast since July 25 in Punniyakoti Kalyana Mandam, Chakrapani Street Extension, West Mambalam Role for private agencies in multi-level parking lots Chennai Corporation will rope in private agencies to create multi-level parking lots on all major roads in the city. The civic body has called for expression of interest from entities such as private firms and joint ventures on construction and maintenance of multi-level parking facilities in all major roads on a DBOT (Design, Build, Operate and Transfer) basis. The private agencies will identify suitable spots including Corporation lands near major roads that require additional parking space. The agency will also come up with a detailed project report and a suitable revenue model for the parking lots. The agency will choose a suitable parking system for each location based on the existing civic conditions. The decision to involve private entities has been taken as the Chennai Metropolitan Mathaji (Founder, Sanjeevini Peetam, 16/45, BRP 1 st Street, West Mambalam) released a book, Hanuman Global Friend, on July 22 during the 27 th Hanuman Chalisa competition held in T. Nagar. Certificates and silver coins were presented to 18 winners in all categories of the competition. Those who need a free copy of the book may contact K. S. Venu (Managing Trustee) in phone or Hanuman (Secretary) in or vinipeetam.com Blood donation camp today Jaigopal Garodia Hindu Vidyalaya Matriculation School (Postal Colony 4 th Street, West Mambalam) has organized its 30 th blood donation camp from 8.30 a.m to 12 noon on Sunday, July 29 in its premises. phone Development Authority and Chennai Corporation have been unable to cope with the challenges in creating new parking lots. The CMDA and Chennai Corporation have been planning to conduct feasibility studies on the many proposed facilities such as 3 rd Avenue in Anna Nagar East and Vijay Nagar bus terminus in Velachery that are part of the Chennai Comprehensive Transportation Study. However, the lack of co-ordination among the various land-owning departments and the planning agencies has been a stumbling block for the implementation of such projects. The new initiative of Chennai Corporation is expected to generate additional data pertaining to traffic study at many congested localities. Courtesy The Hindu to press the organization s demand for tabling of its version of the Jan Lokpal Bill during Book on Hanuman released Parliament s monsoon session. Radhika Ganesh (Media Coordinator) told Mambalam Times that more than 30 members are participating daily in the relay fast. Hanging bars of barricade pose danger The steel bars of the barricade on Inner Ring Parallel Road, Paari Nagar, Jafferkhanpet, which are hanging dangerously, may suddenly fall on a passing vehicle. Under the auspices of Sri Angala Parmeshwari Baktha Jana Sabha, there will be special poojas for the presiding deity in Sri Angala Parameshwari Temple (Puthu Temple), Appasamy Street, West Mambalam from Aug. 3 to 5 as part of 35 th Aadi Festival. phones , or New office-bearers for Ram Samaj V. Balasubramanian was elected as the President of Sri Ram Samaj (Ayodhya Mandapam, Arya Gowda Road, T. Nagar) in the annual general body meeting on July 22. The following are the other office-bearers: A. V. Raman (Vice-President), P. V. Balasubramaniam (Secretary), M. Venkatachari (Asst. Secretary) and N. Raghuraman (Treasurer). phones and Free classes on Bhagavatham Free classes on Srimad Bhagavatham are conducted at 11 a.m on Tuesdays at 2, 50th Street, Ashok Nagar. phone Special poojas in Amman Temple The following is the program: Aug. 3: 5 p.m: Amman procession. Aug. 4: 6 p.m: Devotional songs. Aug. 5: 12 noon: Porridge distribution; 7 p.m: Kumbam. phone

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7 NO HOLDS BARRED By M. A. SADANAND Learned friend C. Rajan sent me an on the value of truth and its pitfalls which we had realised but did not divorce in our profession of law. Nor for us the dour fighting qualities of Goldsmith s old village school master who, though vanquished, could argue still. For us, if we were squashed by the correct interpretation of law and appreciation of facts, we stayed squashed and advised our clients from throwing good money after bad and years of sleepless nights pending the appeals and further appeals right up to the Supreme Court whose decision need not always be right, but the Constitution foolishly says, is final. I sleep well and never see nightmares and, I think, Rajan too does ditto. The heroine in Rajan s story wanted her husband to fetch something from the store to prepare dinner. The hubby hobbled to the nearest store, but the victual was not available there. He was looking around for a drink to quench his thirst when he saw an angelic woman shopping. A little talkathon ended in her apartment and all that should not happen to a married man did happen there. When the fool returned home at 3 a.m. the virago of a wife smelt a new perfume and the truthful man spilled the beans and she nearly brought the roof down. Naturally. I rang up Rajan, and asked for the moral of his e-quote. Be truthful, but not a fool like you for telling your government-client that there was no point for appeal as the judgment against the government was correct. Man, that was the cause of your ouster as Government Pleader and you know that. But, to you, the truth was more precious than a brass sign board which, I hear, was hung at the door at your expense. That makes two of us. Rajan, I am happy to have company. Truth never fails to give us our beauty sleep. We will outlast all those grabbers who wallow in lies to rake in miserable piles of fees. To each his own! Calling volunteers for free service in Tirumala Sevas (Plot No. 103, 10th Main Road, Vijaya Nagar, Velachery) sends volunteers for week-long service to pilgrims in Tirumala starting on Mondays and ending on Sundays. Men and women who are physically fit and are willing to stay in Tirumala for a week are welcome to offer their services for 6 hours everyday. The work will be of supervisory nature. Accommodation, lunch and dinner will be provided free of cost.they can have special darshan of Lord Venkateswara. They can have special darshan of Lord Venkateswara. Travelling expense and the cost of breakfast must be borne by the volunteers. Those interested can contact P. Sundaram (Ph: ). Sai bhajans on Saturdays Sai bhajans are conducted at 6.15 p.m on Saturdays in Sri Sathya Sai Organization, Ashok Nagar Samithi (143, 101 st Street, 15 th Sector, K. K. Nagar). More details can be had from T. S. Mani (Convenor) in phones and In Bharathidasan Colony Bharathidasan Colony Bhajan Mandali (18-D, Bharathidasan Colony, K. K. Nagar) conducts Sri Sathya Sai bhajans from 6.30 p.m to 7.30 p.m on Saturdays in its premises. phone Free Veda classes thrice a week Kurichi Lakshminarasimhachariar (resident of 8, 2 nd Main Road, CIT Nagar East, Nandanam) conducts free Veda and Suktham classes from 9 a.m to 10 a.m on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. phone 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. MAMBALAM TIMES: Ashok Nagar - K.K. Nagar Edition ASHOK NAGAR - K.K. NAGAR BAZAAR Page 7 This column is intended to help small businesses in Ashok Nagar and K.K. Nagar 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. 300) and 4 cm. x 2 column (costing Rs. 600) ASHOK NAGAR - K.K. NAGAR BAZAAR POLYWOOD Loft cover, Pooja Shelf, Cupboard, Showcase, Modern Kitchen, False Ceiling, Painting 5% - 10 % Discount upto Aug. 4 VISWA ENTERPRISES You will have to score at least 60% in the objective test to secure even a learner s driving license. The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways intends to be that strict to plug loopholes that lead to issuance of driving licenses without proper theoretical and practical training of the applicant. By addressing the entire driving license system, the Ministry will be cracking the whip on illegal driving schools, corruption prevailing in Regional Transport Offices (RTOs) which issue driving licenses on being bribed, and hope that this measure will stem the increase in fatal road accidents. Worried that as many as 1.42 lakh people died in road accidents in 2011 and drivers were responsible for more than 70% of these fatalities, the Ministry is working to put an end to the issuance of license on pecuniary considerations. There are more than 1,000 RTOs in the country and more than 500 to 2000 persons visit each of these centers daily for a learner s license, and about one crore are issued a licenses annually. Most applicants go for the short cut and pay upto Rs to touts to secure a license, the legal fee for which in Delhi is Rs Thus, such a racket sees at least Rs crores changing hands across the country annually. Officials apprehend opposition to their initiative as various bureaucratic levels are also complicit in this. VADAPALANI , If anything interesting is happening in your neighbourhood please inform Mambalam Times. This space costs Rs. 300 only! Must score 60% in test to get driving license Accepting the recommendation of a committee which looked into the entire gamut involving the driving license system, the Ministry has decided to issue a notification making it mandatory for those applying for a learner s license to take a computer based objective test to test their knowledge of road sense and signs. To help the rural people with minimal education, booklets will be supplied free of cost when they apply for learner s license and come prepared for the test. Those who fail can repeat the test about a week later, but scoring at least 60% is a must. Norms for the authorized driving schools will be made stricter by accrediting and ranking them on the basis of the number of trainers they have, the number and brands of car they have and the practical and theoretical knowledge they impart to students. The final objective test of driving skills will be electronically recorded by radio frequency identification devices, which will track how the candidate carries out commands issued. The device will then issue a printed performance report. But implementing all these norms will require at least two acres of space, infrastructure and finance and involvement of publicprivate partnerships. The old RTOs have the required space but there isn t any in the heart of metros like Delhi and Mumbai. Report courtesy The Hindu

8 Page 8 MAMBALAM TIMES: Ashok Nagar - K.K.Nagar Edition Roughly, 10,000,00,00,00,00 (Hundred million) school students throw away 36,000,00, 00,00,00 (3.6 billion) plastic gel or ball pens during an academic year in India, contributing to plastic waste in the sub-continent. This struck the mind of Vasundha Mishra (Std. 10 student of PSBB School, K. K. Nagar) who has come up with a practical solution that won her the Changemakers Conference Award on July 23. Delivering her presentation at the conference, an event organized as part of The Bait 12, to showcase student visions for social change, Vasundha argued that promoting the use of eco-friendly fountain or ink pens among the student community can reduce Aavani Avittam on Wednesday K. K. Nagar Thamiznadu Brahmin Association (Dr. Ramasamy Salai, K. K. Nagar) has organized Samashti Yajur Upakarma ( Aavani Avittam ) at 6.30 a.m, 7.30 a.m and 8.30 a.m on Wednesday, Aug.1 in PSBB School, Alagirisamy Salai, K. K. Nagar. phones , , and In Sakthi Vinayagar Temple Under the auspices of Ashok Nagar Satsangam (85/1, Indira Colony, Ashok Nagar) there will be Yajur Upakarma at 8.45 p.m on Wednesday, Aug. 1 in Sri Sarva Sakthi Vinayagar Temple, Indira Colony, Ashok Nagar. More details can be had from S. Lakshmi Sridharan in phone day Aadi utsavam in Aachi Amman Temple Special programs have been organized jointly by TTD, T. Nagar and Devi Sri Aachi Amman Temple (Siddhi Vinayagar Street, T. Nagar) from Aug. 1 to 4 as part of Aadi utsavam in the temple premises. The following is the program: Aug. 1: 6 p.m: Upanyasam by Ganapathi Subramanian. Aug. 2: 6 p.m: Bhajans by Saroja Subramanian. Aug. 3: 5 p.m: Kunkumam archanai; Harikatha by Sudharsan. Aug. 4: 6 p.m: Music concert by Mambalam Srinivasan. phone Donate blood Use fountain pens, not ball pens, says school student the dependence on gel or ball pens. It s simple. The humble fountain pens are made of durable metal, while the ink comes in easily recyclable glass bottles, she said. When it was pointed out that even ink pens are now being made with plastic, she replied, The plastic in fountain pens is more durable when compared to gel or ball pens, and can be used for three or four years. Vasundha said that she had attempted to promote fountain pens among her classmates and evoked good response. She said, Thirtythree students in my class have started using only fountain pens during physics period. Moreover, I have also kickstarted a campaign on fountain pens with the children in our apartment in Arumbakkam. According to her, a student, on an average, uses three plastic gel or ball pens every month and if at least one third of this is replaced with fountain pens, it will go a long way in reducing the waste generated by plastic gel or ball pens. Schools can also support this cause by installing ink filling stations in their premises, she suggested. Courtesy The New Indian Express. Lorry s wheels get stuck in trench The wheels of a lorry loaded with medicines for a Government hospital got stuck in an improperly filled trench dug by Metrowater Board workers at the junction of 1 st and 10 th Avenues near Ashok Pillar in Ashok Nagar at 2.30 p.m on July 23. After the boxes were unloaded, the lorry was pushed out and the boxes put back. The operation took 30 minutes. The lorry was on its way from Koyambedu to Adyar. A traffic policeman at the junction told Mambalam Times that traffic was disrupted. Such incidents are common, especially after rains, he added. Now the T. Nagar - Mambalam edition of Mambalam Times can be accessed in 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. C M Y K