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Registered with the Reg. No. TN/CH(C)/374/15-17 Registrar of Newspapers Licenced to post without prepayment for India under R.N.I. 53640/91 Licence No. TN/PMG(CCR)/WPP-506/15-17 Publication: 15th & 28th of every month Rs. 5 per copy (Annual Subscription: Rs. 100/-) WE CARE FOR MADRAS THAT IS CHENNAI INSIDE • Short ‘N’ Snappy • They bestrode its corridors • In memory of ‘Father’ Ripon • Remembering Jaggu • 4 pages – 9-12: ‘Madras Week’ Vol. XXVII No. 9 MUSINGS August 16-31, 2017 Back to renaming our roads (By The Editor) he Corporation of Greater William Montieth entered TChennai falls back on cer- the Madras Engineers in 1809, tain repeat activities whenever became Lt Col in 1826 and Lt it finds time hanging heavy on Gen in 1854. Fraser’s Bridge its hands. One is the beautifica- gets its name from John Fraser tion of the Marina and the who designed the municipal other is the renaming of roads waterworks. Not undistin- that commemorate the colonial guished names certainly, one working for the army and the other ensuring water supply. Both noble professions. And The names certainly, these men can at best be local heroes, which means over and once their names are removed, they stand forgotten. This is not over again likely with the Red Cross and the TNPSC, both of which are G The statistics below are from Eicher’s city map. very well known institutions While we understand the de- that really do not need com- sire to commemorate our memoration by way of street leaders, it is time we realised names. Chennai’s repetitive street There is also the question of names have become some- tampering with local history. A See what happens when we cut down trees! This picture the Internet brought us from abroad could well be used by what monotonous. Perhaps (Continued on page 6) retaining the old names Nizhal for a poster. Nizhal has several awareness-creating walks this Madras Week. (See programme pages 9-12.) would help retain some local colour. Names Times repeat If announcements were horses... Anna Nagar 16 Anna Salai 56 he recent flurry of and services is going to be dif- is expected that in a period of 15 ness and proactive cooperation Indira Nagar 23 T announcements of sche- ferent this time. months the waste heaps would are elements of responsible citi- Kamaraj Nagar/puram 24 mes being contemplated by the The most important of these be fully degraded, biologically zenry. Kamaraj Salai 54 Tamil Nadu government schemes is the Rs. 1,442 crore and chemically. Another important aspect Kalaignar Karunanidhi should gladden the hearts of proposal to shut down the vast The heap conversion may be that could make or mar the Nagar 7 Chennai residents. When com- dump yards in Kodungaiyur and a slower process as it was not waste-to-energy conversion MGR Puram/Nagar/ pleted, and if done so on time, Perungudi. The scheme envis- subject to proper segregation project relates to its financial Colony 19 Ambedkar Nagar/ these schemes should make a ages stoppage of further dump- before dumping. Segregation is feasibility and sufficiency of re- Colony 21 noticeable difference to the turns to the investor. There are Ambedkar Road 36 quality of life in greater G by A Special Correspondent many imponderables and Chennai. Closer study of the “immeasurables” in a project of information provided on the ing, remediation of the existing crucial to the efficient working this nature where everything de- masters. The latest to suffer projects and our experience of accumulated dump over time, of the conversion plants and as pends on cooperation of a large from this are Montieth and the track record of public agen- revamping the present conser- such would require the arm of multitude and a massive collec- Fraser’s Bridge Roads, which cies in project execution suggest vancy process and setting up two the law for strict enforcement. tion system. The output of en- are to now become Red Cross that celebration must wait till plants to convert waste to en- Without this and related ergy is the source of revenue to and Tamil Nadu Public Service we feel assured, by actual ergy, thereby absorbing, we pre- infrastructural support for seg- the contractor, but the output Commission Roads respec- prompt follow-up action, that sume, the current incoming regation and conveyance, the ratio is conditioned by the com- tively. transformation of announce- waste as well as gradual conver- conversion facility would be position of the input. Under ments into tangible facilities sion of the accumulated heap. It rendered infructuous. Aware- (Continued on page 2) CMYK 2 MADRAS MUSINGS August 16-31, 2017 If announcements Messages for massage were horses... s he gets older, The Man extremities of your body or the and those who could not care (Continued from page 1) does indicate a time-frame of 36 Afrom Madras Musings has regions from which these less. The political class comes months, but there is no mention several parts of his body crav- women come from? But at least in the first lot, the vast middle ing for attention. The lower the charges are clearly in ru- class in the second. The third such uncertainties appropriate of the cost, when monies would back has sunk low in terms of pees. is truly democratic, for it in- protection of return is necessary be made available and when it its ability to hold up, and as for And, lastly, you have this: volves the uber rich and the to the investor and toward this a would start. The report itself his left knee, there are certain ~Massage~in#Kilpauk# of- stony broke. Neither class is in different contractual model may cites enormous delays in getting sounds emanating from it that fer... Relax* your* Mind&Body anyway bothered by GST. have to be adopted from the nor- clearances from CRZ (Coastal would not be out of place in a ~Massage~offer..Oil, Thai, But what interested MMM mal. A guaranteed margin over Regulation Zone) authorities metal-forming workshop. The Swedish, Deep Tissue , Ba- the most was the way the tai- actual cost as the basis for pric- and the National Highways right foot has days when it be- linese, Tigger Point loring class of Chennai ob- Authority of India (NHAI) in comes very communicative jected to this tax. And by these ing the energy seems more likely and, of late, is engaging in a MMM does not mean those to be mutually beneficial both to executing bits and pieces of this SHORT project which has been going on conversation of sorts with the small hole-in-the-corner garret the government and to the in- left elbow. There are times ’N’ tailors who spend the whole vestor. If such an approach for quite some time. Initiated in when the general noise level SNAPPY day poring over a sewing ma- leads, as it might, to a higher cost 2006, clearance was given only rises to an extent that MMM chine. He is speaking of those of energy bought from the con- in June this year by the Ministry gets the idea that he is eaves- up-market boutiques that tractor compared to other of Environment and Forests. dropping on a group discussion And so it appears that the managed to get by all these sources this must be treated as a There are four different arms of among body parts. fourth style is Balinese. MMM days by collecting money in conscious subsidy for creating a the government that would be MMM’s good lady, also wonders if the masseurs and cash for services rendered by executing different parts of this known as She Who Must Be masseuses dress up in floral way of bespoke suits and de- hygienic environment. The so- Obeyed decreed that a good signer dresses. Billing was al- cial returns are in the form of project and coordinating it skirts and wear hibiscus gar- could be a nightmare for the massage would set all of this lands. As to what is Tigger most never done, it transpires, healthier surroundings. Waste- right and, so, of late, MMM, Point, MMM does not know. the money collected making it to-energy should not flounder Ministry of Environment and whose private life, he will let directly to the bank with re- Forests. Perhaps it has something to do on the rocks of financial returns. you know, is an open book, has with Winnie The Pooh. What- ceipts being issued on slips of The second project is the Our anxieties and doubts are a burly masseur coming home ever be the service offered, there paper. These cash-and-carry Tamil Nadu Infrastructural Fi- not unfounded, going by the to knead, rotate, pummel, etc. is no denying that the imagina- enterprises have finally woken nancial Services Ltd.’s commis- track record of execution. The All of this has MMM feeling as tion boggles at all of these. Who up to the horrors of being sioning of a study to formulate a comprehensive underground though he has emerged from a said Chennai is not exciting? taxed. They could do with a plan for solid waste manage- sewerage connection to resi- boxing bout with Mohammed You just need to press it here few stiff helpings of the dents of Pallikaranai is in a state Ali, but it does help all the and there for rich dividends. sarakku described above. ment in the city on a public-pri- talkative body parts quieten vate partnership basis. This ap- of paralysis and has so far suf- fered a delay of four years.