WE HAVE GOT ONLY ONE WORLD TO LIVE IN EDITOR’S NOTE

DEAR At the end of the three month time-line in our special series covering MEMBERS, that the project entails, we will be the long serving employees of GNC. What a month welcomed into a truly world class lobby Running this series has been especially May 2016 cum lounge and a beautiful sports bar/ meaningful – for the happiness is turning out café/lounge, something that all of us can it brings to our staff, knowing to be. First be truly proud of. I’m sure that a lot that we care about them enough the totally of you are as excited as I am to know more about their lives unexpected by the potential this project offers and achievements, to understand wet weather and I can hardly wait for late August/ better their world and the hardships that brought early September,by when the project that they face. Babu Jacob chronicles temperatures would be complete. his near death experience in ‘My narrow down and drenched like escape from a wild elephant’. it was our North East Monsoon. Back to GNC Connect, this May issue And as always, two outstanding recipes And then the big election to the State has plenty to pique our readers interest. that are apt for the summer months Assembly that turned out Pavithra Venkatagopalan continues with kids at home, from the kitchens to be a cliff hanger. And for us with her multi part series of her trip of Ruchira Ramanujam and Rajani at GNC, May 2016 also marks to beautiful and this one makes Sivaram. All this and lots more the beginning of the great for quite a read. RV Rajan is back with in this May issue of GNC Connect. transformation – a project that will a humorous take on something that address the one short coming seems to have taken over our lives, Regards, at our otherwise beautiful club, the ‘smart’ phone. Thanvi Srikant KP Balakumar (B103) the grand renovation of the deck interviews the marker, Committee Member – Library, Magazine, and lobby area. Saravanan (also known as Yesu) Website and PR.

Team GNC Connect: Thanvi Srikant Vinay Kamath Sowmya Kumar Arjun Janani Govindankutty Karthik Athreya LIST OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR 2014-16 SL.NO NAME M.NO PORTFOLIO CON. NOS EMAIL ID 9884019021 1 MR.B.VENKATESH V101 PRESIDENT [email protected] 242337357 2 MR.V.LAKSHMAN L102 VICE PRESIDENT 9884092480 [email protected] 3 MR.R.V.GOPALAN G164 HON.TREASURER 9884239590 [email protected]

4 MR.ASHOK SARRANGAN A129 HON.SECRETARY 9444422444 [email protected] COMMITTEE MEMBER PR, LIBRARY 5 MR.K.P.BALAKUMAR B103 9940025110 [email protected] WEBSITE & MAGAZINE 6 MR.A.GANESAN G134 COMMITTEE MEMBER SPORTS 9840267405 [email protected] COMMITTEE MEMBER ENTERTAIN- 7 MR.S.MAHESH M151 9384824333 subashproperties@gmail. Com MENT 8 MR.S.SUBRAMANIAN S195 COMMITTEE MEMBER BAR 9840720728 [email protected]

9 MR.P.S.SRINIVAS S243 COMMITTEE MEMBER CATERING 8144415106 [email protected]

COMMITTEE MEMBER MAINTE- 10 SAMUEL SURENDRAN.D S244 NANCE, PROJECT, GUEST HOUSE 9444394999 [email protected] AND BANQUET

PUBLISHER Ashok Sarrangan, Honorary Secretary PRINTED BY Managing Editor Canara Traders & Printers KP Balakumar – Committee Member – DESIGNED BY Pvt Ltd Magazine, Library, PR And Website EDGE DESIGN HOUSE

02 SOPHISTICATION IN SIL edge design house edge design

E-1, LOTUS COLONY, CHAMIERS ROAD, NANDANAM, CHENNAI 600 0 PH: 1 14 SECRETARY SPEAKS

As a result the meeting was postponed 3. Admission of 50 Resident to 20th March 2016. Here again we Members at Rs.8 lac + taxes. had 26 members signing the register and only 7 of them attending All the resolutions were passed the meeting. With 9 committee members by overwhelming majority of members. being present the total was only 16 For the resolution on taking in the meeting hall. Bit surprising New memberships the General Body considering the fact that the budget approved admission prepared & circulated revealed a deficit of 50 Resident Members at an entry of Rs.12,94,439/ and a note warning fee of Rs.8 lac + tax in open category. that it is expected to increase in the coming years. The budget This was truly a memorable was passed as presented in the EGM meeting and will go down held on 20th March 2016. in the annals of GNC history This committee is committed to prepare as one of the best attended General Dear Members, & present a paper on the Challenges Body meetings. & Imperatives on the financials of For Members of GNC 1st May the club - year 2020 based on current We were humbled by the presence 2016 will be remembered as one income levels & would be expenditure and participation of such large of the finest days in the chapter levels factoring the unavoidable annual number of Members and the General of club’s history. increase year on year due to inflationary Committee expresses its hearty costs in labour, maintenance thanks to each one of the members We understand that ever & replacements. Alongside we would who attended the EGM. since inception never has an EGM also propose measures to counter been conducted on the day convened. the deficits and trust that the members While on the one end we deem It has always been postponed come forward and attend the meetings it as unstinting support to for want of quorum to the following to choose the best way forward the performance of the General week. This record was broken as they may decide fit. This meeting Committee, we are aware and the EGM was held at 10 am is planned in August 2016. of the responsibilities & expectation on 1st May 2016. By 10 am, on us. We assure that we the time fixed for quorum, Coming back to happier times, will leave no stone unturned around 140 members signed we are delighted to inform to repose the confidence placed the register and within that the General Body has sanctioned on us, by hard work, performance, the next few minutes a total the request of the General Committee commitment and transparency of 217 members signed the register. which was brought in by way of at all times. The meeting hall was overflowing Resolutions in the EGM held on 1st May and many members could not 2016 with overwhelming majority. We expect to commence the renovation be seated for want of seats. by the 20th of May and complete No AGM / EGM has ever had The Resolutions that were tabled the entire work between 75 to 90 days. such a gathering at the hall for approval were:- During the period of renovation and resolutions taken up & decided we will endeavour to ensure with such huge presence. 1. To approve financial sanction that minimum inconvenience The presence of such large numbers of Rs.1.4 crores ± 10% for is caused to members. goes to prove that members the renovation and refurbishing We request you to kindly bear are very keen in the development the following areas. with us during this period. of the club and will come forward when called for such occasions. a. The main Entrance to the club The proposed project will enhance b. Lounge the functional features This is in direct contrast c. Main Deck area of the LOBBY & DECK with 32 seats to the EGM held on 13th March d. Area overlooking the lawn in the lounge area and 51 in the sports 2016 convened for the purpose bar. Additionally the bar counter of presenting the annual revenue 2. To approve financial sanction in the deck would have 6 seats. budget for the period 1st April of Rs.45 lac for the repairs Kitchen would be equipped 2016 to 31st March 2017. and relaying of the 3 Synthetic to provide snacks & beverages The meeting had around Tennis Courts damaged during during the day both in the Lobby 20 people signing for the quorum. the floods in December 2015. and deck area.

04 ‘Through the day usage” of these This we are sure would motivate Features areas gives scope for all other employees to perform additional revenues. We wish better and make themselves eligible • Front entrance will incorporate to create a mini library space for such recognition in future. a ramp in the renovated Lobby area • Broad and easy paced stairs to facilitate usage by elders, Surveillance cameras will be fitted will lead to the reception subject to availability of space. on both Western & Southern side • Lobby will have wooden flooring The Tennis courts which have been of the compound walls with lounge seats & TV station extensively damaged by the flood to enable the club & the Police • Picture windows will provide is being taken up for complete to monitor the movement a view of the lawn and sports bar renovation and will be ready of people on the Fourth main road • Entry and exit doors opposite by 2 months from the date & Crescent Park road. each other will facilitate of commencement of work. This committee has to the best smooth movement of abilities strived hard • A walkway will lead Request letters for Resident to provide “Excellence”in all spheres. from the entrance to Membership has been received Excellence is achieved ONLY the Lobby through to the lawn from 107 aspirants for the available through hard work and perseverance. and to the swimming pool 50 openings. Application forms The committee has pursued • A Mini library and aquarium will be issued in the first week its dream of uncompromising will complete the lobby of June and filled in forms standards in its offerings, be it Facilities, that would have 32 Lounge seats will be received and processed Service, Infrastructure and Connect • The deck will host a Sports Bar, on a First Come First Served basis. to Members. We are proud Leather Furniture, Upon admission of 50 resident to have raised the standards TV Station, Leo Coffee Bar members, the club would get to the levels of “envy” amongst some with 51 seats. an additional funding of Rs.4 crores of the best clubs in the country. by way of entrance fee. This amount We are in no doubt that GNC Highlights would offset the expenditure of around will occupy the pride of place Rs.1.50 crores for the renovation once the proposed project • Architect of international repute of Front Entrance, Lobby & Deck area of modifications is taken up – M/s. Natraj &Venkat Architects, and around Rs.45.lacs for the renovation & completed. Chennai. of tennis courts. The balance funds • Contracts Only through transparent of around 2 crores would help We promise a transformed club tendering process to add up to the corpus of the club. in the next three months. • Execution in 3 months from Requesting your continued the date of commencement The next two months will witness support & co-operation • Installation of Energy Saving a lot of activities in the club. in our efforts to make GNC equipment Painting of exteriors the most sought after destination • Minimum discomfort will be taken up in the first week by our own members. for memberusage during renovation of June. A mini Health Spa comprising of massage, Pedicure Note on Renovation Benefits & manicure is proposed to be set up of Front Entrance, Lobby in the basement area & Deck area • Creation of additional space of the swimming pool toilets. & facilities, Objective • Day time usage of Lobby Automatic rescue device is being fitted & Deck area. to the Lift. This would facilitate The intention is to utilize • Will attract more foot falls the lift move to the nearest floor the large space in the lobby • Guaranteed increased revenue and for the doors open & deck by incorporating facilities earnings. when there is a power failure and make the space functional. • Aesthetic Entrance, Lobby thereby ensuring the safety Front entrance will also be better & Deck area of the members/passengers. utilised by having a ramp • Maximum view of lawn on one side and easy paced stairs & Few of the staff from accounts, bar, on the other. The areas taken up catering & sports have been elevated for renovation would ad grace Thanks & best wishes. and given increments in consonance to the building commensurate Ashok Sarrangan with their new positions. with the stature of the club. – Secretary (AI29)

05 RENOVATED FACILIITIES AT GNC

ENTRANCE VIEW SPORTS LOUNGE VIEW

SPORTS LOUNGE LOBBY VIEW OFFICE ENTRY VIEW

TROPHY WALL - LOBBY LAWN VIEW

06 LIFESTYLE

YOGA FOR KIDS! Shwetha Seshadri Until then, here are a few effective yoga Simhasana (Lion) D/o R Seshadri (S 170) postures you could try at home. Benefit: This posture strengthens Kindergarten teacher & yoga trainer Do it along with your child the throat and helps improve with special training in Kids Yoga and remember to make it fun pronunciation and speech. and interesting! For example, you can From my past experience as play a ‘Freeze’ game using the below a Kindergarten teacher I’ve noticed postures. Play their favourite song that children, even the pre-schoolers and allow the kids to dance/jump/run. get worked up if they find an activity Now pause the song somewhere difficult. They either start crying or in between and call out a posture, run away from the activity and refuse ‘Camel’ (Ushtrasana), for instance. to try again. At times like this, I bring The kids freeze in Camel for ten seconds out my special trick: EASY FUN YOGA and rest in mouse for another ten POSTURES! It works like a charm. seconds. Don’t forget to follow up every The children think I’m playing a game back bend with a forward bend. with them, in a way I am. While they have fun, they also unknowingly Yoga @ home for kids: channelize their negative emotion into Begin with a whole body warm up something more positive. They forget by rotating the joints, starting with what happened ten minutes ago and are the neck and ending with the ankles. Ek-pada Rajakapotasana (Swan) more open to revisiting the task. It’s a Benefit: This posture massages win-win for all! Follow up with two rounds the intestines and help in digestion of Surya namaskaar and continue and relieving constipation. “Quick Yoga breaks” in the classroom have with the following postures. It would helped kids to refocus and release tension. be better to do it in the same order. Counter Pose: Relax in the same posture but stretch your arms out in front Our kids live in a world today Vrikshasana (tree) of you. where school pressure, IPad Benefit: This balancing posture helps and television have taken over their improve focus and concentration. Ushtrasana (Camel) lives. Yoga can help them unwind Benefit: This posture helps and bring out their innate joy. to open the shoulder, chest It helps kids physically by improving and back. Regular practice will help their balance, flexibility, coordination, improve posture. strength and emotionally by bringing a sense of calmness and peace and in Counter Pose: Relax in mouse posture, addition, it improves concentration. with both arms stretched in front of you and feet below your thighs. A simple Breathe in and Breathe out can work wonders in the classroom but it’s Shalabasana (Locust) about how to make this more fun Benefit: Similar to Ek-pada and keep the kids interested! Rajakapotasana. This posture also exercises the back While creating a Yoga plan for my kids, and abdominal muscles. I keep in mind Dr.Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligence. I include Rest comfortably with one cheek lots of music, games, stories, art & team on your palm and stay still work to make it a wholesome experience. in this posture for at least five minutes.

Many schools now provide Yoga few While staying still in the posture, times a week, making it compulsory bring your awareness for the kids. If your child’s school to your breath and feel the way doesn’t have one look up a studio your body expands and contracts nearby that offers “kids yoga”. with every breath.

07 ENCOUNTER MY NARROW ESCAPE FROM A WILD ELEPHANT - Babu Jacob (J126)

Image Source : Brad Wilson

At the age of 30, I became attended by thousands of people, Within four years, my branch could the first Branch Manager of Kainatty thanks to the huge publicity sanction more than 15,000 agricultural ADB of State Bank of during through newspapers. loans with 97% recovery, and was the period 1973-77. (ADB is the acronym Wayanad being a coffee belt, the SBI second only to Palghat ADB, for Agricultural Development Branch invited Mr Reddy IAS, Chairman which had a head start of three years, and Kainatty was part of Kalpetta, of Indian Coffee Board compared to my branch. now the District Head Quarters to inaugurate the branch. For the first One day, a group of about 12 farmers of Wayanad District, ). time in Kerala, may be even India, from a very remote ,non descript village The area of operation of my branch (and perhaps the last time!), came to meet me, after they came was the entire South Wayanad two of the oldest Malayalam to know through newspaper reports (then part of Kozhikode District), newspapers carried banner headlines about the good work done bordering both with a big photograph by my branch, especially the ease and Tamilnadu, spread over of Mr Reddy lighting the lamp, of getting loans at very reasonable rates a vast area of more than 600 sq kms with Yours Truly standing next to him, of interest. Their village, in 3 taluks. The more backward and that too in the FRONT PAGE! on the banks of river Kabini, North Wayanad was then part near the Karnataka border had of Kannur District. To start with, I had a contingent no electricity and to reach the village of a dozen staff, most of whom one has to traverse several kilometres On the inaugural day of my branch were officers. My boss had reposed through a dense reserve forest. on 28th August 1973, his faith in my ability to live up The villagers cultivated paddy there was a festival in Wayanad. to his expectations.101 loans in rich soil. Water was plenty thanks The meeting was held in Vijaya Talkies, were disbursed on the inaugural day. to the proximity to river Kabini.

08 They wanted my bank to give loans I have never seen him carrying It was a nightmare! Nair was for purchasing diesel pumpsets such a cheap looking bag when a smart driver. He accelerated for over 100 farmers, he used to go for inspections. the jeep and reached all Wayanadan Chettys. I wondered why he is carrying it an unbelievable speed, and what it’s content was, incredible for an old jeep like this! I called Mr Cherian Xavier, but did not ask him about it. The angry husker came charging the field officer in charge of Pulpally at breakneck speed and the gap village, the nearest village We passed through Meenangadi, between him and our Jeep was from which these farmers came. Sultans Battery and Pulpally, narrowing steadily. Everybody called him just Cherian. all small towns en route. And then, Cherian Xavier After covering more than 50 kilometres, became our saviour! He took out ”Cherian, I want you to visit their village we reached an undulating forest track, a few fire crackers from his clothe bag, and give me a report about the feasibility an apology for a road, hardly ignited them one by one of extending loans to these farmers . 8 ft wide. Tall canopies of forest trees and started throwing at the mammoth Please tell them when you are going” masked the sunlight and it creature in hot pursuit of our Jeep, was dark even at noon. chasing us relentlessly. ”Sir, with due respect to you, On hearing the sound of crackers I am sorry to tell you that I will not And then------“Sir, a wild elephant” bursting, the startled elephant stopped, undertake a hazardous journey whispered driver Madhavan Nair. hesitated for some time to a village located inside a dense forest, Yes, we could see a huge pachyderm, and beat a hasty retreat! infested with wild animals, on the forest track about 100ft ahead Cherian saved us. Or God saved especially wild elephants”. of us, with its rear side facing us us and Cherian was just and its tail swaying to both sides, an instrument in the hands merrily munching on palm leaves! of God! Perhaps he had However, our joy was Luckily for us, the wind was blowing a premonition of what was short lived. The wild tusker from the pachyderm’s side in store for us and hence thought got wind of our presence and so he did not hear the jeep sound . of carrying a few fire crackers, (He might have heard (If the wind was blowing from our side, just in case! He did not tell me: the noise of the jeep or if he was facing us, instead of his back ” I told you------“.But the expression shifting gears), facing us, we would not have on his face did not conceal and came charging! a chance to escape). It must have what he did not say in so many words! It was a nightmare! been a male tusker from its huge size, I thanked him profusely and a loner too. Such wild male loners, for saving me. referred to as OTTAYANS in Malayalam I said, ”Cherian, don’t be a coward. are feared by villagers as they We heaved a sigh of relief Be brave”, are ferocious and can attack humans and thanked God for saving us without provocation. I was sitting from sure death. “Sir, I have a family to support in the front seat, to the left We reached the branch by evening and I am their sole bread winner. of the driver. We could hear our own and narrated our harrowing experience If something happens to me, breaths in the stifling silence. to the staff and officers present. who will take charge of them?” I signalled to Nair to reverse Cherian became a hero! and he did. But there was no space He saved not only himself, ” Cherian, I will come with you. to reverse to the direction but also the Branch Manger We are going tomorrow ”. we came, since it was a very narrow and the driver from sure death. Cherian could not say anything. stretch. However, we were lucky Cherian Xavier became Cherian to spot a spot which barely allowed the Saviour! On a sunny, pleasant Wayanadan the jeep to turn back. morning around 9 AM, Cherian We heaved a sigh of relief The next day I was laid up and I set out on our journey and thanked God for saving us with fever and had to take leave! in a jeep driven by owner cum driver from an ottayan! The fright got me the fever! Madhavan Nair. He too, I was told And the next day’s newspaper later, had his own reservations and However, our joy was short lived. had a story ” Wild elephant kills apprehensions about this adventurous The wild tusker got wind a farmer in the forest north trip, but chose not to give vent to it. of our presence (He might have of pulpally”-Yes, most probably I noticed Cherian carrying heard the noise of the jeep shifting it was the same wild tusker a small clothe bag . gears), and came charging! which scared us !

09 LOCAL ISSUES

CAN WE GIVE UP ON THE COMPOUND WALL? - Zoyab Alihussain (Z-101)

“Stick no bills”, “Bill stickers will be At a micro level, it can tell much To keep the bill stickers at bay they prosecuted” - sometimes in English, about the background of its owner generally capture some additional sometimes in Tamil are cries often seen or builder and even about public space in the guise of landscaping on the compound walls of Chennai. But the neighbourhood. At a macro level, that in cheerless Chennai can actually no pleas, or warnings, or threats it holds up a mirror and can make be a good thing - not that the rich of prosecution (and I dare say, or destroy the image and powerful should be allowed or even of execution) can deter of a city. And that’s the theme to get away without suitable the determined ‘Bill Stickers’ of this write up. compensation. To take away footpaths of Chennai. With a single-minded and force pedestrians to walk agenda of disfiguring the city, But how can a humble compound on the road is very nearly criminal. they are a vapid, secretive breed - wall be held responsible movingImage Source around : andyling.net in the darkness of night, for the image of a city? What harm The second type and by far the vast rarely seen but always felt - in constant can it possibly do? majority are medium height compound search of virgin territory to conquer. walls, just tall enough to prevent eye The very first message contact with people on the street. But this essay is not about them. that a compound wall sends out In fact, just about right to serve a variety It’s about the Compound Wall. is the physical staking of territory - of nefarious purposes as well. a natural and primitive instinct common The compound wall is perhaps easily to all living beings. There can * If it is a sensitive locality, the most ignored element of any be no debate on this. goons of political parties take building - until such time it has been “Keep out. This is my turf”. it as their birth right to disingenuously badly disfigured. And then it becomes In Chennai, as in most Indian cities, paint oft-repeated messages an eyesore. Very rarely does it get this message is vehemently accompanied and pictures - a form of visual tyranny - a second look for its own sake. by an additional corollary “...... that nobody really wants to see. The best ones may be remembered And keep out of my sight as well”. Show me a civil servant who as reference points or serve has the guts to prevent this and I will as landmarks. But beyond that, And that’s when things start getting show you a gladiator. it is difficult to imagine a compound bad for the city. wall ever winning any awards, * If it is a run down locality, medals or trophies in a beauty contest. To begin with, there are high, or better still, a long stretch blank compound walls - of an “orphaned” wall of some public Interpreting a compound wall design for example, as on Boat Club Road - building, then what better use can is somewhat similar to analysing that are arrogant, snobbish anyone think of than to go a person’s handwriting. and unfriendly. and pee on it.

10 Image Source: flickr.com

Further, since it is not likely that anyone The rest of the family can just fend A great game of see-saw is being will take issue, it is perfectly alright for themselves and create played out. “The more walls to dump the street garbage there as well, all the nuisance they like; and columns you put up, the bigger and then crib and wait for Exnora being fully aware that the sympathy our canvas becomes.” (or someone similar) to step vote will be with them. Agreed that in to clear the mess. this is an over simplified and rather In parting, it may be of interest a dehumanising version of reality. to know that in neighbouring Sri Lanka, * If it is a mixed residential locality, But any discussion on that is beyond the call from its most famous architect then all kinds of vendors - the scope of this essay whose central Geffory Bawa, to bring new ideas from the ubiquitous ironing man figure is the Compound Wall. on compound wall design, has brought to unlicensed eateries - a refreshing change to the image find the compound wall a very The third type of Compound Walls of its capital city of Colombo. comforting backdrop. It’s good are the ones that commit suicide In all public buildings, to face business head on and not have by disfiguring themselves, parks and gardens walls surprises popping out from behind. long before anybody else can do have been replaced by “see-through” Over time they build up such a fair it to them. Like a chicken pox infected steel grills that allow views customer base, that if the issue face, their surfaces are covered both ways. In our own Chennai, of their removal is ever put to vote, with small sharp stones that are not easy wherever this has been tried - they would win by a handsome margin. to paint or stick upon. Nageshwar Rao (Luz) The common refrain would be and along the Marina, for example “Poor chaps! Where will they go?” If medium sized cities in India - there is a “feel good” atmosphere thereby missing the whole point - (like Surat, Nashik, Mysore created that a compound wall just why can’t the whole business and a few more) have managed cannot generate. be regulated? Who will clear away to get their act together, the paper cups and plates? the scene in Chennai appears The World’s most guarded buildings - to be getting worse and completely The White House, * If it is a labour intensive commercial out of hand. Not satisfied The Buckingham Palace, or industrial locality, then the compound with mere compound walls, The Rashtrapati Bhavan, wall offers a very robust shoulder the bill stickers are now gleefully (their vast grounds, not withstanding) - for pavement dwellers to pitch their attacking flyovers, grade separators, are all enclosed by high security little huts against. Why bother about subway walls, metro rails, steel grills that allows views commuting or renting a place when lamp posts and even public transport both ways. In a figurative sense, it is so easy (and completely cost free) - with callous disregard for aesthetics, they create an atmosphere to live next to your work place. public opinion or safety. of trust and transparency.

11 TRAVEL PRINTS IN THE SNOW - Pavithra Venkatagopalan, PhD (P229) She identifies her prey, waits patiently on a ledge above. She is a clever hunter. When she is confident she can make the kill, she uses her powerful hind legs, pounces on the prey and sinks her teeth into its jugular. Her kill is precise, almost clinical. Once the prey has succumbed , she carries them up the slope and eats patiently. Did I mention that all the prey that she hunts are more than 3 times her body weight?

She can’t roar! She is the only big cat who cannot roar! Her mating call is a slightly loud meow. When the female snow leopard is in heat, she stands in the middle of a natural amphitheatre in the mountain and makes her mating call. Could she get any more fascinating?

People have tried many ways to study Image Source : Rahul Ogra, Mystic Himalayan Trails Manali her, understand her ways. Radio collaring, popular among the big cats Do you hear the silent roar? I am going to refer to the snow leopard in the plains, fail on snow leopards as a “She” because a creature this because they affect their balance. Home. You are safe. You are protected. independent, efficient, poised , graceful Moreover, the have to be sedated What if your home was a flat rock and fearless is surely a “She”. for the collaring. Can you imagine at 4000 meters above MSL. This medium sized cat weighs between walking up on a ledge, groggy You get to and from home by walking 35 and 52 kgs (female and male, and unable to find your balance? on a narrow ledge and there’s respectively). Compare this to our Bengal Sadly, some of them lose their footing a precipitous fall on either side? tiger (Panthera tigris) which often weighs and fall down the precipitous slope. There’s harsh cold winds that attack above 250kg! Her tail is as long as her The best way to learn more about them is you from all sides. Sometimes, body and among all the big cats, the to just watch from a distance and learn! there is snow and ice. A single mis-step snow leopard has the longest tail as can send you crashing down onto compared to its body. This long tail Previously, I had left you wondering the unforgiving slopes. Stumbling helps her maintain balance while she has if we had seen the elusive snow leopard is not an option. Food is sparse. to traverse narrow rocky ledges or not. I hope this explains why You hunt and carry your prey and climb up 70 degree slopes. a bunch of ordinary humans from up the slope to keep it safe from the She has been seen using the tail Chennai, Trichy and Bangalore, wolves. You don’t have a cave. to cover her nose and mouth so ill equipped to deal with the altitude You raise your cubs on the flat, to protect against the punishing cold! and extreme weather would go to great narrow ledge you live on. lengths to catch a glimpse of this extra She preys on the local herbivores- ordinary creature. This is the home of the snow leopard- the Ladakhi urial, the Himalayan Ibex, Panthera uncia. This cat has evolved the Blue Sheep and sometimes a baby Now, let me take you back to Ulley, so well to adapt to these conditions yak from the local herder. Her thick, where we saw the Tibetan wolf. After that sometimes you question greyish brown coat has dark rosettes we spot the Tibetan wolf, we are if it wasn’t a creation of God, that help her camouflage beautifully ushered into the lovely homestay by meant to rule the Himalayas. in the mountainous terrain. Acho Norbu, our spotter and his son.

12 If you recall, Ulley is a tiny hamlet (Ladaki for snow leopard). We see fresh In the mean time, Acho Norbu of about eight houses. We quickly settle pug marks on the snow. has climbed up a snow covered steep in for the day with some butter tea He gets out of the van and notices hillock nearby and set up his spotting and share exciting stories around that the pug marks lead into the same scope there. After searching for 30 the bukhari. Spongo valley where we spent minutes, he signals us to come up. the previous day. He is certain “What do you mean, come up? Because there is barely anyone around, that the pug marks are only a few hours Where is the path? There is no route!”, the snow leopards are known to move old, and we have a very strong chance we ask. He shrugs and says, “if you about freely around the village. of a sighting. In our excitement, come up, you can see them”, The next morning we leave by van, we all rush out of the van, some with a broad grin. Not one to give up, with very high spirits and head out of us forgetting our water bottles, each of us make our own path to the top into the Spongo valley. We are dropped sun glasses and run into of the hill. While we are struggling on the side of the road and we climb the valley, with new found energy. to find confident footing, the rest down into the valley. The Spongo chu With the wisdom of an experienced of the helper staff (all Ladakhis, is frozen and we have to take careful tracker, Acho Norbu asks us who are as surefooted as a mountain steps crossing the river. It is daunting to walk slowly while he goes ahead goat) have already made it to the top to keep your feet on a sheet of ice and scans the mountains. and cheer us on. Our beloved cook Acho and walk confidently while you hear We walk alongside the pugmarks, Tashi gives us a helping hand in the the gurgles of the Spongo chu flowing unable to believe our luck. last few steps to the top. There is a mad beneath your feet. The guides distract us scramble for our turn at the spotting with humor, lend an ever helping hand Our trip leader, Rahul, is a man who scope. When it’s my turn, I finally see and the river crossing is done. Phew! loves the Himalayas. He works the snow leopards, on a rock about 600 with a snow leopard conservancy meters away. It’s so overwhelming, Acho Norbu suggests we walk upstream program and strongly believes that I tear up. This magnificent creature, along the Spongo chu, based on prey the snow leopard is his spirit animal. not that much bigger than a Labrador, movement. We walk about half He walks with us, and points out in this hostile environment, sitting like a kilometer when the valley forks. that the pug marks are actually not the overlord of the mountains! We go on the right fork and go about just of one snow leopard, but two. 2 kilometers. We are continuously A mother and her cub. When we look She knows we are there. She has spotted walking uphill, albeit a gentle slope. closely, we see that the cub walks us. Any attempt on our part to get The frigid winds and the lack of oxygen in the mother’s steps! Oh! The prospect any closer to her would be pointless. keeps us slow and winded. It is about of seeing not one, but two snow She will just walk away. Ramanan uncle half past one and we stop for lunch, leopards, and that too, a cub! jokingly asks all of us to walk on all which is just as well, because we don’t Our excitement knows no bounds now! fours, and pretend to be ibexes hoping see any fauna- no birds, no prey and no to lure her closer. Of course, she is no predator. But it was a lunch with a view! As we walk up Spongo Valley again, fool. We spend about 2 hours watching A cold lunch we will never forget. Rahul points out a snow leopard scrape. her, taking turns on the scope. We spend some time chatting while It’s how they mark their territory. And finally make our way back our spotter scans the valley. As we are walking, we notice a different, to the van and wolf down our lunch. At a distance we spot a herd of Ibex, smaller pug mark in the show that but nothing more exciting. By about is alongside the snow leopard pugmarks I don’t have great photos of her. 3 pm, we turn around and head but a few feet away. It’s the pug mark She was too far away. I got some grainy to our van. Spongo valley has high of the Himalayan Red Fox. shots of her on my phone through walls and once the sun goes down, The Himalayan Red Fox likes hanging the spotting scope. But I don’t need temperatures drop almost instantly around a snow leopard because it can those photos. I close my eyes and we have to get back before that. steal some of the snow leopard kill. and I see her whenever I want to. A little disappointed, a little cold we head We have now reached the fork back to Ulley and stay in for the night. in the valley that I mentioned earlier. This brought an end to the rather Our low spirits are lifted a little The snow leopard pugmark continues successful animal safari portion when it starts snowing in the night. in the left fork and the fox’s pugmark goes of our trip. Next we were off to other away in right fork of the valley. Rahul valleys to interact with the descendants The next morning, we pack all our thinks that the snow leopard probably of Alexander the Great himself! bags and try to head to the next village, saw this little scavenger coming along, Alexander’s descendants in India? Hemis Shukpachen. On the way, we hissed at it until it went away. I didn’t What are you talking about? drive past the Spongo chu , when all know that there was so much you could You’ll just have to wait till of a sudden Acho Norbu shouts- Shun! learn from prints in the snow! the next edition to find out!

13 TRAVEL THREE IN ONE – THIRUMOORTHY, AMARAVATHI & - K.Natarajan (N-134)

PRELUDE While it is interesting to enjoy visits THREE IN ONE is generally a relishing in a group, sometimes it is preferable and welcome statement in general in Tamilnadu to travel alone to observe every detail and the same is applicable in this article is strategically located adjoining that could be noticed and pictured covering three sites the that has umpteen for a better concentration and also of THIRUMOORTHY AMARAVATHI numbers of picnic spots and interesting that others don’t feel annoyed due AND ALYAR from Coimbatore places for short visits that could to the time taken by one person. from eight in the morning till nine be planned in a very short time. at night. I am sure that this write The Nilagiri Mountains on The drive all along was simply great up with limited photographs the North West and the entire stretch observing the whole route surrounded will give a good clue for anyone East of Western Ghats on the South by Sunflower gardens, to plan their trip alone or in groups, with its own greenery & beauty Coconut groves, Paddy fields while more details could be gathered are all places to be visited and Wind Mills, in addition from the net. and enjoyed including a number to the Mountain views. If you are lucky, of Dams built on the small rivers you can enjoy a film shooting going FIRST – THIRUMOORTHY, and catchments. This is apart on in these lovely surroundings / ANOTHER THREE IN ONE OF DAM, from the interesting tourism locations locations. One can even recall FALLS & TEMPLE in Kerala and Karnataka. the numerous film shoots seen in many Indian films in the Thirumoorthi Dam is situated about In my previous article, region and the famous Kathalika 80 KM from Coimbatore via Pollachi I touched the eight hour picnic Neramillai film shot at Aliyar Dam and 20 KM from Udumalpet. by seniors to the Malampuzha Dam site & surroundings with the contribution The dam itself is an excellent building and now I wish to recollect the three of two greats for the masterly direction monument, with the major objective dam sites I made it in a full day all alone of Sridhar with the astute being & flood control clubbed myself from the photography angle. & classy photography of Vincent. with hydro-power generation.

14 The dam’s is a moderately It is believed that Athari Maharishi There is a well laid-out park small & productive one at the tail end along with his wife Anushaya Devi and climbing the steep steps of the Parmabikulam Aliyar System lived here offering their Prayers on the sloping dam structure, and the construction of the same to the Lords and pleased with their one can have a picturesque view was completed around the year 1966. prayers, Lords Shiva, Vishnu & Brahma north of the plains below and south came in disguise to test their devotion. to the Anamalai Hills & . The Thirumoorthi reservoir has Beleaguered by their appearance, The place was also developed the dam on one side bordered the couple offered them tribute. as an excursion centre for tourism by the hills on the other three sides Thus came into existence the gracious with extensive gardens initially, and offers an excellent scenic look. temple with a great Divine atmosphere however, due to lack of interest One can even enjoy a good Boat ride / with the three LORDS present in one and bad maintenance, it is just a so-so. Parisal ride during the season watching Sanctum Sanctorum. Visiting the temple Boating for tourists in the dam reservoir the different fish species playing around after a nice shower in the falls should is possible but not much of this activity happily. It had well laid out gardens be relaxing the Mind, Soul & Body, was observed. earlier in the sixties and early seventies that is beyond the description in words but not maintained well nowadays, here.Universal Peace Sanctuary In the reservoir, the non-indigenous that is a pity. and Paranjothi Naturopathy Hospital Tilapia fish was introduced can be seen while returning from these in the early days and subsequently locations for another holy atmosphere, this reservoir had highest fish yield A nice waterfall known for those interested in such activities. in the state by the 1970s. as the Panchalinga Falls is located Tilapia now accounts for a major some distance away on a small climb. SECOND - portion of the fish caught The walk to the falls may be a bit in the reservoir. Cast Nets are commonly tough for elders & kids physically, The Amaravathi Dam is situated within used for subsistence fishing and for everyone to be aware of plenty the premises of the Indira Gandhi Wildlife and the current trend is not known. of monkeys to snatch your things away. Sanctuary, at Amaravathi Nagar, 25 KM Other fish predators here include The flow in the water fall is very strong, South of Udumalpet. It was built in 1957 Oriental Small-clawed Otters, but enjoyable for a nice bath to refresh, across the Amaravathi River creating Indian Cormorants, Indian Flap-shelled especially under the sun. a reservoir storage covering an area Turtles, etc. of around 9.31 Sq Km for a maximum There is a renowned ancient temple depth of 33.53 M, to cater to local Mugger Crocodiles - at the foothills, just by the side irrigation and flood control. It has 4 MW This reservoir provides habitat of a boulder fallen from the mountains. Power Generation installed initially to a significant population It is said that - Touch the Boulder, with another 4 MW added subsequently. of Mugger Crocodiles. embrace it and feel the blessings of our Rishis. Some say, the drawings on it were etched by Jain Sadhus, which appear to be upside down. It is also believed that Jain priests known as Samanar lived in the hills when Jainism flourished in . The huge rock which is worshiped as Thirumoorthy has a sculpture of a Jain priest. A popular belief is that this rock rolled down from the hills few centuries back during a flood. This is supported by the fact that sculpture carved is upside down on the rock.

To add to the Divine atmosphere amidst the nature’s beauty of hills and the falls, one can worship at Sri Amaralingeswarar temple, adjoining the perennial flow from the falls.

15 The largest wild breeding populations Many crocodiles of all sizes can be seen The dam is about 2 KM long totally of crocodiles in live basking in the sun and suddenly making in three angular faces to create a huge in this reservoir, and also in the Chinnar, a stride or piled up on one another. All reservoir with the Western Ghats Thennar, & Pambar rivers that drain these are maintained in captivity here by surrounding the rest of the periphery into it. These broad-snouted Mugger the Forest Department personnel who of the Reservoir with mountains crocodiles, also known as Marsh manage and maintain the centre. surrounding three quarters crocodiles and Persian crocodiles of the reservoir in a gigantic manner. are the most common and widespread A Sainik School was also seen close by. It stands majestically with of the three species of crocodiles a lovely Green-Spread Mountains found in India. They eat fish, THIRD – ALIYAR DAM and forests all around. other reptiles, small & large mammals and are often dangerous to humans. Aliyar (AAZHIYAAR) dam is about PAP consists of a series of dams Their total wild population here 65 KM from Coimbatore via Pollachi & like Aliyar, is significant. located in the foothills of Parambikulam, Thunakadavu, in the Anamalai Mountain Range Peruvaripallam, Sholayar, Upper Nirar Amaravathi Sagar Crocodile Farm and in the Anamalai Tiger Range & Thirumoorthy, all interconnected is about one kilometer before of the Western Ghats. by tunnels & canals for harnessing the Amaravathi dam site and is The Aliyar Dam was constructed all the waters for irrigation the largest crocodile nursery in India, during the fifties / early sixties, & power generation. and many adult crocodiles have been across the river Aliyar mainly receives water from Upper Aliyar reintroduced from here into the wild for irrigation purposes with Reservoir of Valparai through ones. Eggs are collected from wild nests hydroelectric power generation the hydroelectric along the perimeter of the reservoir added subsequently as a part of in Navamati and the Parambikulam to be hatched and reared at the farm. Parambikulam Aliyar Project (PAP). Reservoir through a contour canal.

16 The reservoir is a huge one extending One can spend enough time in all these to nearly 50 Hectares of surface area places, though they are not up with a maximum depth of 41 Meters. to the mark. Boating in the reservoir The panoramic view seen in the photo waters is a very interesting time-spend will give an idea of its vastness, which and also to enjoy the total scenery even has an island in it. The discharges from all angles. The boat trips are well from the reservoir are let out through organized with all safety precautions three sets of Sluices / Canals namely and are not to be missed. Pollachi canal, Vettaikaranpudur Canal and the river Sluices. The irrigation is another attraction discharge through the sluices of the at 6 km from the dam site on the road Aliyar Dam is utilized for power to Valparai near the Forest Department generation in a Power House at the toe Check post, where one can of the dam. have an enjoyable bath / shower, where the water is not as forceful The PAP scheme in totality as the Thirumoorthi falls. is an outstanding engineering skill. The rocky location with hidings Just imagine how all these were is all the more interesting for youngsters implemented by the dedicated engineers and lovers. in the 50s & 60s with the then available facilities & equipments under Arutperunjothi Nagar nearby boasts the able leadership of dedicated of a Temple of Consciousness for engineering bosses & contractors Meditation Practice in the name and political leaders of that time. of World Community Service Centre We could even recall at this stage (WCSC) for World Peace through the excellent water management Individual Peace run by Shri Vethathiri and network created by the ancient Maharishi may not be interesting Chola & other dynasties. to everyone, but good for those interested (Unfortunately it is a shame in spiritual teachings & practices. to see the handling of public works in Tamilnadu during the past fifty CONCLUSION years and also that we are not even able to maintain these marvelous Now finally I wish to close this write up infrastructures & facilities). by suggesting that the three dams and connected places are worth the visit Tourist attractions in and around Aliyar for a full day. The scenic enjoyment, dam site is plenty with its surroundings the shower / bath at the waterfalls offering absolutely beautiful sceneries. and a brief divine worship in between The view from the dam top for a change and the relaxation is so pleasing to see a green carpet kind of viewing the dams, hills / mountains, of a coconut tree tops in a vast stretch gardens, the road side views are so on the Northern side and exciting that one may not feel tired even at at the Southern, Western & Eastern side the end of 12-14 hours, including it is a huge sheet of water the taxi ride. For food, finish your with the mountains in the background. breakfast at Coimbatore or Pollachi At the far away Eastern side, and carry Sandwich, Fruits if one has a concentrated look, and some Munching stuff which can be the Wind Mills tops can be observed substantiated with light local Snacks, behind the greenery all the way. Elaneer & fruit juices as required. Dinner A camera with high power zoom / at Pollachi or Coimbatore would be fine. telescopic lens will help for wonderful shots. Around the dam there Please enjoy the photographs along are visitor attractions like a Park, with this write-up, which are restricted Garden, Aquarium, Play area and a Mini in numbers due to space constraint. Theme-Park maintained by Tamil Nadu I hope to share more about other places Fisheries Corporation. in my next article.

17 FINANCE

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TRADING THE MARKETS Part - 3

KP Balakumar (B103) So what are Futures and Options since they offer significant leverage and how does one use them potential with margin requirements Just when it looked like the bottom to trade the markets? Read on. typically in the range of 10% to 20% was falling off the markets in Jan for Index and Stock Futures. and Feb, came a stunning counter trend Futures and Options are derivative What this means is that a trader rally in March. After making a low instruments used to trade an underlying with Rs 100,000 of starting capital at 6825, the Nifty snapped back all Index or security. While the pay-off can take a position of value Rs 500,000 the way to 7700 as FII flows turned from a Futures contract mimics for stock futures (20% margin, positive once again. And as it happens the underlying, albeit with 5x leverage) and Rs 10,00,000 ever so often, the rally was led by a far lower capital outlay for Index Futures (10% margin, thus the same set of stocks that were leaders (explained in the next segment), 10x leverage). The following example on the downside...banks, metals and other Options are designed to offer outsized will show how outlays differ economy sensitive stocks like Autos. pay-offs while keeping risk moderate when trading with Futures v/s Cash. by allowing the trader to know If a trader wished to buy 1000 shares In earlier articles in this series, we upfront what his maximum loss of Tata Steel, the costs and outlay looked at a few methodologies being would be – sort of trading with would be the following: employed by market participants a built in insurance policy. to trade the markets, namely, Technical Cash Market: Analysis and Arbitrage. Active traders Futures: also use a mix of Futures and Options 1000 Tata Steel at 320 to take directional bets on the market Futures contracts are designed to offer Brokerage @ 0.25% (Rs 0.80) as well as to minimize potential losses the trader significant pay-offs, Net outlay for the above position – from open positions. with commensurate risk as well, Rs 320,800

18 Futures Market: Options: When the strike price is equivalent to the price of the underlying security, 1000 Tata Steel Futures at 320 Options are derivative instruments it’s termed as an ‘At the money’ Option. Brokerage @ 0.10% (Rs 0.32) that give you the right but not Margin for the above position @ 20% the obligation to buy/sell the The premium to be paid at each strike Net outlay – Rs 64,064 (20% * underlying security/index at a specified price is based on a combination (320.32*1000) price on or before a specified date. of factors – whether it is Out/In/ The specified price is the Strike Price At the money, the volatility With a far lower initial outlay, and the specified date is the Settlement of the underlying, time to expiry etc. the trader now mimics the same pay- Date (when the contract expires). For the buyer of the option, off as buying in the Cash market. Options are of two kinds: the maximum loss is the premium paid The residual funds could potentially to enter the contract while for the seller, earn interest in a liquid fund, 1. Call Options the losses are potentially unlimited. thus enhancing returns. Of course, 2. Put Options This can be explained with the following if the trader wishes to leverage, example: then the same initial capital/outlay Call Options allow the buyer allows the trader to buy upto 5x the to participate in the upside of a stock/ CMP of Tata Steel: 320 position v/s the cash market. While index by paying a ‘premium’. Lot Size: 1000 (minimum number this seems enticing on the face of it, The premium is the cost incurred of shares one must buy/sell) given that a mere 20% move in the right to enter the position and also reflects Strike Price at which the buyer direction could double a trader’s money, the maximum loss to the buyer, and seller of Call Options trade: 340 one must not lose sight of the downside. should the stock/index fail to move up/ Premium: Rs 5 A similar move against the position moves down. While the buyer will wipe out the trader’s capital. of the Call option is betting For the buyer of the Call Option: The same can be explained below: on an increase in the price of the underlying, the seller of a Call The price of the underlying, Tata Steel stock price: 320 option believes the opposite and the Tata Steel stock, has to go past is betting on a drop in stock price Rs 345 (Strike Price+Premium paid) Capital available: Rs 3,20,000 (or at the least, the stock price failing for him to make any money. Stock Futures margin: 20% to go above the strike price where If the stock closes at or below Rs 340, (and hence 5x leverage) the Option has been sold). Put Options, he loses the entire premium Max position value: 16,00,000 (320,000*5) on the other hand, allow the buyer he has paid. While he recovers Tata Steel Futures bought: to participate in the downside of an some money for a closing price 5000 shares (16,00,000/320) index/stock. Buyers of Put Options are between 340 – 345, his profits betting on a fall in stock price while are potentially unlimited If stock moves up by 20%: the seller of the Put Option believes as the price moves beyond 345. that the stock will not fall below the Thus for the buyer of the option, Settlement price: Rs 384 strike price where the option has been the maximum loss is the premium Gains: Rs 320,000 ((384-320)*5000)) sold. As in any trade, both parties paid * the number of shares Gain on Initial Capital: 100% to the trade believe they are right :) he buys at that Strike Price. If he has bought If stock moves down by 20%: Options are always bought or sold 1000 shares at the 340 Strike, at a Strike Price. his maximum loss, should the price Settlement price: Rs 256 fail to go up, would be Losses: Rs 320,000 ((256-320)*5000)) For example: 1000*5=Rs 5,000. Thus, the trader Initial Capital Wiped Out! is very aware of his worst case scenario Tata Steel trades at 320 in the Cash Market at the time of initiation of the trade. Hence, while Futures allow you Strike prices available to trade If the stock were to go up substantially, to speculate with outlandish pay-offs 300,310,320,330,340 (prices at which for example, to 400, the pay off (if one uses the leverage), options can be bought/sold) to the trader would be very few experienced traders Strike prices that are below the current 1000*(400-345)=55,000!! So easy, right? would take what is referred market price are referred to as Like anything else in life, to as ‘naked’ Futures position, i.e., buy/ ‘In the money’ Options it’s never this simple. The example sell Futures without a hedge position via Strike prices that are above the current stated is to provide you an insight Options due to the downside risk market price are referred to as ‘Out of into the potential pay-off such positions expose the trader to. the money’ Options and the possibility for outsized returns.

19 On the 360 Call Sold: 1000*(362-400)=Rs 38,000 loss Net Gain: 17,000

Rs 17,000 represents the maximum gain on the trade at any price at or above 360 (i.e. the strike price where the option was sold). If the price at settlement is 340 or below, the maximum loss is Rs 3,000. For any price between 340 and 360, the pay off would be a combination of the money made on the Bought Call option and the premium earned from the Sold Call Option.

Trading the markets can be especially dangerous when For the seller of the Call Option: Tata Steel price: 320 one takes positional bets Lot Size: 1000 that expose you to potentially The seller is betting on the stock price 340 Call premium: Rs 5 unlimited losses – For example, of Tata Steel failing to cross 360 Call premium: Rs 2 a long/short Futures with 340 (Strike where the Option was sold) no hedge (selling/buying and wishes to pocket the premium I could choose to buy the 340 call options on that position) he earns by selling the Option and simultaneously sell the 360 call. could expose the Trader (for taking the risk of the stock moving By doing so, I lower my cost to the to rather dramatic and painful against his position). Any move beyond extent of premium received by selling consequences. Similarly, 345 (Strike+Premium) will result the 360 call while capping my potential selling options can also in potentially unlimited losses. gain. So the trade off here is limited expose a trader to potentially For example, if the stock price drops gain-limited risk. How would the pay unlimited losses. The best strategies to 300, the maximum gain off be for such a strategy? involves using Futures and Options to the seller is only the premium Buy 1000 340 Call: 1000*5=Rs 5000 (paid) or a combination of Options he earned by selling the option. Sell 1000 360 Call: 1000*2=Rs 2000 together to maximize pay-offs while But as in the previous example, (received) limiting risk. There are a multitude if the stock price runs away to 400, Net Cost of the above position: Rs 3000 of strategiesthat can be deployed the trader’s losses swell to Rs 55,000! (5000-2000) using these derivative instruments So for the seller of Options, the pay and I hope this primer has given off is limited return with potentially Pay-off: you an insight into how they unlimited risk. can be used. For further reading, If stock price goes to 400: a simple Google search will So who in their right mind would sell On the 340 Call Bought: throw up multiple sources Options, given the disproportionate 1000*(400-345)=Rs 55,000 gain from where one can learn more. nature of the pay-off? Sellers are mostly institutional investors and large prop desks/professional traders given their more sophisticated trading strategies and ability to withstand losses. Buyers of Options tend to be mostly retail traders.

Options can be used either individually or together. For example, if I was bullish on Tata Steel but also wanted to reduce my cost of acquisition of my position, I could do the following:

20 TECHNOLOGY

`OVER` SMART PHONES -R.V.Rajan( R-143)

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I have at last joined the legion Another problem has to do Irritated by the frequent `beeps` of `smart` people. Yes, I am now with WhatsApp. As the senior most I get, informing me about a ‘not so’ proud owner of a smart phone `don` of the `Matunga Mafia` some message or the other, presented to me by my son. (as my family WhatsApp group I keep putting the instrument I am yet to get used to it’s is called) I have very frustrating on silent mode. Invariably `over smart - super fast` response moments. Since the keypad I forget to return to the normal to my hard touch, resulting in many for typing WhatsApp messages mode resulting in many near frustrating moments that I face is even smaller than the keypad and dear ones complaining that with the phone every day. for keying in caller`s names, my I am not picking up the phone problem is compounded. It takes when it rings. Forgetting to end A major problem which I face a lot of time to compose even a call or inadvertently calling wrong is in keying the name to go with a simple message correctly. numbers leading to people whom a new number or storing a caller`s With the result I often do not respond. I have called cursing me has number. I keyed the name also become a regular feature. Ashok Dey and after carefully checking What `got my goat` recently With so much frustration piling on the spelling when I tried to store was a message I saw flashing me am I planning to give up my smart the name it became `A shot Dey`. on my mobile which said that phone? It looks unlikely. Similarly Madhu became ``Madhuri` I had already used up `XXX` MB space But I do hope I don’t become and Nanayam Kumar became in my mobile and that the system a smart phone addict like `Narayan Kumar`. Since I have not yet was getting hot and slowing down the younger generation of today. mastered the art of editing/correcting the operation. I was aghast. the matter, it is quite frustrating I had hardly used the phone As a frustrated mother complained when I have to retrieve the number for 10 days and had not even the other day` I can never get of a person. My son tells me it is because downloaded any programmes. my daughter on the phone. of the `auto correct` feature of the phone How could I have used up But whatever message which decides what should so much space? Is somebody I send her on WhatsApp gets be the spelling of whatever name hacking my phone? I got worried. replied instantly` I am typing, irrespective of what I have My son solved the problem keyed in! I thought that is stretching by deleting a whole lot of Apps, Feedback welcome the smartness of the phone too far. which I was not likely to use. on [email protected] or 9840392082

21 STREET FOOD

A GOURMET JOURNEY IN THE STREETS OF CHANDNI CHOWK - Janani Govindankutty (G - 175)

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Initial apprehensions about wading The rickshaw wala just dragged his As we sat on our assigned tables, through the human-clogged streets rickety vehicle, finding niches the staff boy came with plates— of Chandini Chowk were cast aside— in the road asphyxiating with every aloo subzi, pudina chutney the perk being a food trip form of motor vehicle and human and pumpkin subzi. My brother as opposed to shopping which species. In less than two minutes, dipped one finger in the pumpkin made me want to end my life he stopped abruptly and gestured subzi and licked it off, exclaiming, than die of agoraphobia towards an invisible road. “Appetising, they should bring on my first visit to Delhi’s intensely the parathas in a jiffy.” Another bowl populated streets. A chilly winter Hopping off the rickshaw, of what looked like vegetable pickle afternoon with warm sunshine we walked towards the human veil was placed on our table. proved to be an impetus that cloaked the entrance Enticed by my brother’s visual taunts for me and my brother to head out to the Parathewala Gali— about the subzis’, I decided to try for our street food-gorging an entry into a labyrinth of narrow the pickle. An array of orange, white, ordeal. Relying on the GPS streets and criss-crossing lanes, red and green cut vegetables glared on our mobiles to guide all winding towards an unknown at me, glistening with the chilli flakes us towards Parathewala Gali, terrain bursting with shops. and lime juice sprinkled on top. we stepped out of As we manoeuvred through The inquisitiveness high the Chandni Chowk Metro Station. the Gali, head-butting to avoid as on the table, there was just another being squished by several couple, who could not identify Well, agoraphobia engulfed of our own kind, we finally stopped the white-narrow strip mixed me momentarily, I dragged at one shop that looked promising with the carrots, tomatoes and beans. my brother to a cycle rickshaw wala and is highly recommended— After a little argument on whether and begged him to take us P T Kanhaiyala Durga Prashad it could be raw mango or pumpkin, to our destination. My brother scoffed Parawthe Wala. It was surprising I pulled out one white piece at my absurd idea, quite unwilling to see a tiny shop acutely organised. from the bowl. With three inquisitive to rideon a cycle rickshaw One of the staff ensured pairs of eyes staring at me, for the next 400 meters that people queued for a table. I declared, “It is fresh winter that would have been comfortably Service was immaculate produce—radish—crunchy, been achieved by walking. and quite quick. spicy and tender at the same time.”

22 Before everyone could get their hands The half-yellow coloured on the pickle bowl, came our hot, liquid-coated bread was fried sizzling parathas. I and my brother on the tawa. Aloo tikka was smashed had ordered rabri and chilly paratha. right on top of the bread After tasting my chilly paratha and was covered with the pudina and repelled by its spicy flavour, and tamarind chutney, my brother bit into the half-moon onions sprinkled and the chaat was shaped lump of his rabri paratha, ready to be devoured. Surprisingly, his jacket tasting the rabri, the Indian French toast seemed as it oozed out of the fat lump to celebrate our desi needs and giving him a spotted jacket. and both of us voted “Yum,” he said. Tempted for the indigenous version by the rabri paratha, we stepped of the bread -based dish. out to try something sweet. A few meters down the lane, Alternating between sugar Though unwilling at first, we found a hawker with his stand and spice seemed the norm I pinched a small portion encompassing of what looked like of the day. I scrounged for a dahi- and tasted the pakora. a huge pile of white snow papri chaat, my brother following me The paneer and spicy aloo seemed with streaks of yellow, as if stained ardently for the mere pleasure of this like a simple fair but definitely by the sun. It was Daulat Ki Chaat, gastronomic endeavour of street food. worth relishing. Sometimes, strategically located close Ignoring the huge Haldiram shop, simple food can do wonders to the paratha shops to lull customers we trudged forward, moving towards and bread pakoras to end their meal on a sweet note. the sole street vendor who with tea would satiate We were aroused looking was passing dahi-bhalla chaat your cravings—subtly blissful. at the heap of milky white substance. to hovering customers. The vendor The alternating norm came In the chaat bowl, along with several was smart and had several bowls into play and we asked random layers of the white substance, ready—just pay and eat. My brother people for the jalebi wala. the hawker garnished it with jaggery got the chaat and we moved Nestled in a corner along and dry fruits. The white chaat just to a relatively less-crowded spot the Nai Sarak, we ordered melts in your mouth, the dry fruits on fringe of the road and let the dahi for hot jalebis with rabri. making the ride a bit crunchy soothe our spiced-up digestive tract In a paper plate came the twirled, and jaggery adding a strange and system. We were surrounded by crunchy orange-coloured sweet twist to the sweetness of the white garbage, thrown by Indians ignorant topped with half-white rabri. chaat. We got more jaggery sprinkled of the clean-India drive by “God!”my brother exclaimed. as we loved the quirky sweetness. the government—or rather lack I was coming back to reality ‘Lost our senses’ while indulging of civic sense– a trait inseparable after biting into the jalebi in Daulat ki Chaat would summarize from our genes, probably. If we don’t and sported a questioning look. our experience. We had got a free ride dump garbage, the government Inferring that I wanted to heaven from the crowded streets would not have to toil for cleaning an explanation, my brother said, of Chandni Chowk—yes, sugar can the city. We hunted for a garbage bin “God, is an IIT-Bombay lingo take you to great heights. to dump our bowl. Luckily, it was while enjoying scrumplicious food. Driven by a sudden whim time for tea and we found a tea stall So, let’s say God!” for a change in flavour we hunted while looking out for a bin. We chanted “god, god” for hot and spicy chaat. Hot ginger tea—the usual fair— as we walked back to the metro We came out onto Nai Sarak lots of milk and sugar, the ginger station. My brother happy and spotted a chaat wala who seemed adding a zest of spice after that I’d not hailed another cycle to be making French toast. you gulp your tea, lingering for rickshaw for a ride. Curious as to what chaat that was a fleeting moment before you sip My brother wasn’t done with his we approached him, to let us taste your concoction again. Tea cannot gourmet walk yet. A few meters buds decide. Swiftly blending be drunk in isolation and has to be before the metro station he stopped a half-yellow coloured liquid which accompanied by pakoras. My brother near a fruit-chat wala. he poured over slices of bread, pointed at the bread pakoras and After all the junk, we needed some we asked him if it had eggs. said, “Doesn’t the filling look slightly nutrients too,right? As he shook his head different that other tea stalls?” So that was our final chaat in disagreement, we asked That was my cue to buy him bread as we culminated our food walk him to make some chaat for us. pakoras to munch on with his tea. through Chandni Chowk.

23 CHEF’S CORNER

Grilled fresh vegetables, al dente pasta and a garlicky yoghurt dressing make this pasta a firm family favourite. CREAMY PASTA SALAD It’s perfect for the summer heat, since it is light and cooling, waist-friendly and comes together quickly. And if you need WITH GRILLED VEGGIES a dish for a potluck or picnic, - Ruchira Ramanujam this Creamy Pasta Salad with Grilled Veggies works well since it tastes wonderful at room temperature as well.

Special Equipment – Grill pan or outdoor grill, or use an iron tava or even an OTG

FOR THE GRILLED VEGETABLES – • Marinade – • ¼ cup thick yogurt • 2 cloves garlic, mashed to a paste • 1 teaspoon tomato paste • ¼ teaspoon freshly grated pepper • 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning or mixed dried herbs • ¼ teaspoon red chilli flakes, or to taste • Salt to taste • 1 onion • ½ zucchini • ½ red pepper • ½ yellow pepper • 3-4 baby corn • 8-10 asparagus spears or 3-4 spring FOR THE SALAD – onion greens • 1.5 cups macaroni or farfalle • 1 tablespoon oil • 1 Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil • 1 cup thick yoghurt 1. Mix together all the ingredients • 4 cloves garlic, mashed to a paste* for the marinade in a small bowl. • ½ teaspoon lemon juice 2. Peel and then cut the onion into wedges, • 1 teaspoon honey or sugar keeping the root intact so that the pieces • ¼ teaspoon freshly grated pepper stay together. Cut the zucchini • Salt to taste into 4 sections length-wise. • ½ cup fresh basil, loosely packed Cut the peppers into 1″ thick strips. • A few lettuce leaves, cherry tomatoes, olives and pickled chillies for garnish Slit the babycorn lengthwise. Trim away the woody asparagus ends or if using 1. Boil the pasta as per the directions on the package, taking care to keep spring onions, cut them lengthwise. it al dente. Drain and then toss the pasta with the extra virgin olive oil. 3. Preheat a grill pan on medium heat, Set aside to cool. and brush it with a little oil. 2. To make the dressing whisk together the yoghurt, garlic, lemon juice, honey, 4. Toss the veggies in the marinade pepper and salt until smooth. Taste and season if necessary. and immediately place them 3. Put the pasta in a large mixing bowl. Add the fresh basil, tearing on the hot grill. Do not crowd the veggies up the leaves into bite-sized pieces. Reserve a quarter cup of the dressing on the grill, you can grill them in batches and pour the rest over the pasta. Toss well. Add the grilled veggies instead. Remember to clean the tava to the bowl and mix very gently. with a paper napkin and then drizzle 4. If you are not serving the pasta right away, oil before you grill the next batch. refrigerate it and the reserved dressing separately in closed containers. Grill the veggies on both sides until Mix in the reserved dressing just before serving. If serving immediately, softened and starting to char, but still crisp. add in the reserved dressing only if the salad looks dry. 5. Once grilled, cut the veggies into smaller, 5. Transfer the salad to a serving bowl lined with lettuce. bite-sized pieces. Set aside to cool. Add cherry tomatoes, olives and pickled chillies for garnish, as desired.

24 CHEF’S CORNER

It doesn’t get easier than this to make veggie burgers. Cooked beans mixed VEGGIE with rice and some veggies thrown in will end up looking like these delicious burgers. Breadcrumbs help hold it all together without falling apart, oats add some nice texture and spices make it really lively. Feel free BURGERS to experiment with your favorite veggies, add more grains or play - Rajani Sivaram with the rice: breadcrumb ratio.

Ingredients: Method: ● 2 teaspoons oil 1. Heat oil in a pan and cook the onions till pink. Add the capsicum and carrot. ● 1 medium onion, chopped fine Cover and cook until the vegetables are done. ● 1 red capsicum, chopped fine 2. Drain the cooked beans well. Mash it with a fork. You want most of it mashed, ● 1 carrot, grated (optional) but not all. ● 1.5 cups cooked beans (red kidney 3. Add the rice, oats cooked vegetables and chilli powder. Season with salt beans/black beans/chickpea etc) and pepper. Mash them all well together. ● ¾ cup cooked rice 4. Add the breadcrumbs. The quantity of breadcrumbs needed will depend ● About ½ cup breadcrumbs on how well the beans mixture holds together without falling apart. ● ¼ cup oats, optional So adjust the quantity accordingly, somewhere around the ½ cup mark. ● 1 teaspoon chilli powder 5. Divide the mixture into 4-5 equal parts. Shape each one into a nice flat patty. ● Salt and pepper 6. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a pan and cook the patties on medium-low heat. ● 2-3 tablespoons oil Cook both sides and drain on a kitchen napkin when done. ● 4 burger buns 7. At the time of serving, spread the mayo-ketchup mix on the burger buns. ● 4 teaspoons mayonnaise mixed Top the bun with cucumbers, burger patty, sliced onions and tomatoes. with 1 tablespoon ketchup Cover with the other half of the bun with a teaspoon of mayo mix spread ● Sliced tomatoes, cucumbers and onions on it. Enjoy!

25 INTERVIEW

MARKING’ HIS DEDICATION TO GNC An Interview with our club’s Tennis coach Mr. Saravanan - Thanvi Srikant (S563)

It’s a hot Tuesday evening when I decide CC: How has our club changed In tennis terms, the ball moves faster to set foot on our club’s tennis courts. over the years? on synthetic courts, but you can’t skip I see a group of men indulge on it like how you do on a clay court. in an intense game of doubles SA: I have seen the club from its very when one of the on-court staff members early days, when it constituted of merely CC : What gives you the most happiness acknowledges me. Having been four clay tennis courts. Right from as a Coach? informed earlier about his interview, when the founders laid the foundations Mr. Saravanan Arumugam, better for the club in 1993 till today, SA: Playing and watching tennis known to members as ‘Yesu’ greets the club has seen tremendous growth. is very exciting, especially during me with a wide smile. What began as 10-15 members playing tournament season. I have also tennis regularly, has turned had the chance to play in a few It is not often that we as members into a successful club with nearly tournaments, winning a few. of the club, take the time to talk 2000 members. more than just a few words CC: Is this where you imagined you to the assisting staff in charge Through these years, I have always would be, right from your childhood? of all the facilities. As I hear strived to perform my duties diligently. Mr. Saravanan’s story, I’m filled My journey began from being a Ball boy SA: I never even dreamed of getting with immense respect and admiration to Senior Ball boy, Assistant Marker, an opportunity like this. for this tennis coach who has been a part Senior Marker and now Coach. Being In fact, many years after I had of GNC for the last 22 years. where I am today gives me a lot established myself as a tennis marker, of happiness. I decided to take a break. CC (Club Connect): How did However, my stint at a different your tennis journey begin? CC: As Coach, what are your various profession only made me realise responsibilities? that tennis was my true calling. SA (Mr. Saravanan Arumugam): My dad worked at the Madras Club SA: I take charge of registering When Mr. Saravanan first started as a Room- boy for nearly 30 years. the names of the members and guests out as a Ball boy in our club, As a 10 year old, my frequent visits who play, the court maintenance, the then-coach of our club Mr. Perumal with him would be very special training the ball boys, training was so impressed with his dedication because I would enjoy watching the Markers and managing the entire and humility, that he gave his the tennis matches being played. tennis court facility. Over course daughter’s hand in marriage to him. Unfortunately, we faced monetary of my time here at the club, difficulties and I eventually sacrificed I have also learnt English. Today, Saravanan takes great pride my studies to support the family, in telling me that he has two daughters. working as a ball boy at the same club. CC : It’s been a few years since While the older one is pursuing her the club changed the tennis courts 2nd year of B.A. English, the younger I have worked at tennis courts from clay to synthetic. daughter is studying in 12th grade. in Rajarathnam stadium (Egmore), How advantageous has this ALTA (Kotturpuram), the T.Nagar transformation been? SA: My wish is to ensure that they study Ladies’ Club, RANSA (R.A.Puram), well. I always tell them that seeking and at a tennis club in Anna Nagar. SA: The clay courts were very difficult knowledge is more important than earning to maintain. During rains, it would get money. They know how much I have I am thankful to Coach Gunasekar very messy. On the contrary, synthetic struggled in life to be where I am today. (T.Nagar Ladies club) , Coach Guruswamy courts require less attention. (Anna Nagar) for teaching me the tennis When it rains, we have a fibre machine His daughters are also sports strokes and my ‘Guru’, Marker Sundar for draining out the excess water. enthusiasts; the younger used (Madras Club) who took the effort to We also wash it once a month to be a swimmer and her older sister train me after working hours as well. for maintenance. plays college-level volleyball.

26 CC: Apart from the regular groups of men, how often do ladies and kids play tennis at the club?

SA: There are only a few ladies playing, currently. However, the courts are open to anyone who is interested. I have trained several ladies, myself. Many of them develop an interest in the sport when they drop their kids for coaching classes.

We offer coaching classes during the summer every year for nearly 2-3 months. I would say that the age to join would be four and a half years at the earliest, when the child can learn to develop strokes. By the age of 9-10, he/she will have the confidence to enter the competitive arena. We even send some of the talented students in the U-12 and U-16 categories for tournaments. I still remember training Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan He was recently given a cash prize I sincerely wish to earn more at our club when he was around for commemorating the last for the benefit of my kids, 10 years old. Moreover, sports 10 years of his service and to provide them access are necessary for a healthy lifestyle in the past, has also been awarded to good education and get them and all-round development. ‘Best Staff Member’. happily married. He admits that those moments CC: Our club recently hosted were truly memorable. CC: What makes GNC special? the ITF Tennis matches. How was the experience? CC: How much damage did our courts SA: This club is well-established see during the recent floods in Chennai? and is very popular in Adyar. SA: It was truly a big honour It has all the facilities, good service for our club. Of course, SA: We had water logging to a level and active participation from lots of work had to be taken care of. of 3 feet. The centre court was damaged its members. They keep striving Apart from the court maintenance completely as the water seepage caused to make it better (you can see posters and organization, we had to arrange undulations and bubbles. of the new construction plans accommodation for the players. The backside of the baseline near the front desk) and that’s We recruited 6 ball boys from outside was damaged in the third court what makes it stand out from other the club especially for these matches. as well. We will be closing clubs. I wish we continue nurturing Players such as our very own Jeevan the courts for the next 3 months our zeal for success! Nedunchezhiyan and in order to renovate them took part in the tournament. and lay new synthetic flooring. As we wind-up the interview, Mr. Saravanan also plays other I realize that it has truly been sports such as volleyball, CC: What are your plans a privilege to interact with the people football and badminton. for the future? who are GNC’s pride. These people He gets along well with other staff aren’t just the members, members at the club, his close friends SA: I want to learn more but the staff as well. being Mr. Manohar (swimming coach) and wish to train more people. and Mr. Shivakumar (squash coach). I might start a new business The next time you visit the club, He is also very grateful or a tennis centre. Both my brothers do try making a conversation to some of our club members manage tennis centres in Chennai with the staff members at any facility. who have acknowledged his service and Coimbatore. I am very grateful You might just hear a story through the years. for my family’s constant support. that will leave you inspired.

27 LIBRARY

Jeffrey Archer James Patterson Danielle Steel James Patterson Cometh The Hour 15Th Affair Country Private Paris

Lynsay Sands Kaushik Basu Whitney Johnson James Grippando Always An Economist In The Real World Distrupt Yourself Cane And Abe – The Art Of Policy Making In India

Sushil Kkumar Clive Cussler Ashwin Sanghi Judy Balan Inside Unreal Estate The Pharaohs Secret The Sailkot Saga Half Boyfriend ( A Journey Through India’s Most Controversial Sector )

Geronimo Stilton David Baldacci Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Wilbur Smith Attack Of The Dragons The Last Mile Before We Visit The Goddess Predator

28 Nora Roberts Adam Grant Paul Kalanithi Bertil Lintner Best Laid Plans Originals When Breath Becomes Air Great Game East (How Non Conformists (India,China And Change The World) The Struggle For Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier)

John Perkins Cecelia Ahern Michelle Moran Anand Panidan The New Confessions Of An Flawed The Last Queen Of India Reel World On Location Economichitman (The Shocking In Kolly Wood Inside Story Of How) OTHER BOOKS: Rujuta Diwekr The Pcod Thyroid Book Indu Balachandran Runaway Writer Andrew Grant Run Nilanjana Roy The Girl Who Ate Books Nidhi Dugar Kundalia The Los Tgeneration – Chronicling India’s Dying Professions P Chidambaram Standing Gaurd – A Year In Opposition Ruskin Bond Upon An Old Wall Dreaming Nora Roberts Loving Jack Dirk Collier Arun Gadre And Abhay Shukla Dissenting Diagnosis The Great Mughals Chris Pavone Expats And Their India Yamini Chowdhury Modi And The World (The Ring View Inside Out) Junior Classics (Vol 2) Captain Courageous/Don Quixote/Man In The Iron Mask/Red Badge Of Courage Junior Classics (Vol 3) Call Of The Wild/Moby Dick Or The Whale/ Little Mermaid/Animal Farm Junior Classics (Vol 4) Heidi/A Tale Of Two Cities/Little Women / Black Beauty Junior Classics (Vol 5) Great Expectations/Around The World In 80 Days/Jungle Book/ Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood Junior Classics (Vol 7) Last Of The Mohicans/Legend Of Sleepy Hollow/ Mayor Of Casterbridge/War Of The Worlds Junior Classics (Vol 12) Adventures Of Tom Sawyer / Treasure Island / Samit Basu Swiss Family Robinson / David Copperfield Resistance

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