C M Y MAMBALAM K TIMES The Neighbourhood Newspaper for T. Nagar & Mambalam www.mambalamtimes.in Vol. 22, No. 43 1138th Issue : March 18 - 24, 2017 FREE Page 2 March 18 - 24, 2017 MAMBALAM TIMES C M Y K T. NAGAR BAZAAR This column is intended to help small businesses in & around T.Nagar and West Mambalam to have a cost-effective advertisement medium. Advertisement in this section will be in standard panel sizes of 4 cm. x 1 column (costing only Rs. 500) and 4 cm. x 2 column (costing Rs. 1000) This space costs Rs. 500 only. Calling volunteers for free service Discourses on ‘Saisath in Tirumala Saritha’ By Our Staff Reporter By Our Staff Reporter Sevas (Pallavaram) sends volunteers to Tirumala for a week-long Under the auspices of Sri Shirdi Sai Meditation free service starting on Mondays and ending on Sundays. Physically Mandir (6, Sarojini Street, T. Nagar) there are discourses on ‘Sri Saisath Saritha’ at 6.30 p.m on fit men and women below 60 years are welcome to volunteer. The Sundays in its premises. T. Thiruvalluvan travelling expense has to be borne by the volunteers. (Founder) told Mambalam Times that mass spiri- Accommodation, lunch and dinner will be provided free of cost. tual healing is conducted at 7.30 p.m on Thurs- Those interested can call 78455 58334. days and Sundays. All are welcome. 7. March 18 - 24, 2017 Page 3 MAMBALAM TIMES C M Y Book on ‘Industrial Safety’ Free Karate classes Discourse on ‘Dandi Adigal K in Tamil released on Mondays, Thursdays Narayanar’ on Monday By Our Staff Reporter Panampattu Ravichandran Ganapathidasan will give a discourse A book on ‘Industrial Safety’ in on the sage ‘Dandi Adigal Narayanar’ from 7 p.m to 8.15 p.m on Tamil written by N. S. Pillai (a resi- Monday, March 20 in Kasi Viswanathar Temple (Kuppaiah Street, dent of Balakrishna Naicker Street West Mambalam). All are welcome. Extn., West Mambalam) was released More details can be had in 92836 00628. recently. The 250-page book is priced at Rs. 90. According to the author, the book has 30 chapters and explains in detail with pictures the various types of health/physical risks in the workplace based on the type of industry and work environment. in Tamil will help them to un- “There are a number of work- derstand the various types of ers without English knowledge risks and the safety practices working in high risk environ- to follow at the workplace,” he ments in the State. This book said. By Our Staff Reporter Tamilnadu Kenyu Ryu Karate According to him, the book P. Perumal (Karate Master, Association. will be useful for students, pro- 5th Dan Black Belt Japan Kai He conducts free Karate fessionals/workers and train- Cadre) conducts free Karate classes on other days in some ers in the industrial safety and classes at 7 a.m on Mondays other venues. security sector. and Thursdays in Corporation He also teaches Karate in Copies of the book, published Playground (Somasundaram schools, colleges and corporate by Aruna Publications Street, T. Nagar). companies. His contact (Villivakkam), are available in He is the president of number is 99768 15150. all leading bookshops in Chennai including Eswar Book Stall (Natesan Street, T. Free Ayurveda consultation Nagar). tomorrow Pillai retired as General Man- veda) will examine the patients. ager from Neyveli Lignite Cor- By Our Staff Reporter All are welcome. poration. Limra Ayurvedic Clinic, in More details can be had in His contact numbers are association with Dabur India 99621 64142 and 99623 93807 80650 and 2451 3089. Ltd., will offer free Ayurveda treatment/consultation from 68246. 10 a.m to 5 p.m on Sunday, March 19 in Limra Pancha- Chandi Homam in karma Centre (7/21, Arya Sankara Mutt on Gowda Road, West Mam- balam). Monday Free check-up and By Our Staff Reporter consultation will be offered for ‘Krishna Paksha Chandi diabetes, skin problems, Homam’ will be performed at 6 arthritis, lumbar spondylosis p.m on Monday, March 20 in and other chronic ailments. Sankara Mutt (West Dr . A. Latif, BAMS (Ayur- Mamalam). For more details, contact R. Sridharan Iyer in 98410 Free medical camp 97300. tomorrow All are welcome. By Our Staff Reporter Daasya (an NGO in Ashok Lec-dem on Nagar) has organized a free ‘Navagraha Stuthi’ medical camp from 9.30 a.m to 12.30 p.m on Sunday, March today evening 19 in Panigraha Kalyana By Our Staff Reporter Mandapam, Arya Gowda M .Vijayalakshmi and her Road, West Mambalam. students will present a lec-dem Free eye, physiotherapy, on ‘Navagraha Stuthi’ at 6 p.m kidney, dental and breast on Saturday, March 18 in cancer check-up will be done. Tirumala Tirupati Devas- It will be followed by a special thanam (Venkatanarayana yoga class for cancer patients. Road, T. Nagar) For more details, call 99406 She has presented a number 38972. of lec-dems with her students in various temples in Chennai. Local boys win top Vijayalakshmi is a resident of Nu-tech Vijaya Apartments, spots in chess tourney 11/5, Rajunaicken Street, West Ram S. Krishnan (a resident Mambalam, and has been run- of Ashok Nagar) scored 6 points ning her music school Vijaya to win the first place in the 1st Kalalaya from her residence Dakshinamurthy Memorial for the past 32 years. Chess Tournament held on Her contact number is March 12 in Kamar Towers, 98844 84860. Ashok Nagar. Sharan Sridhar (also a resident of Ashok Nagar and a Samashti Gayathri student in Jawahar Vidyalaya) homam in won 2nd place with 5.5 points. Sankara Mutt Grand Master Sasikiran Krishnan, the chief guest, tomorrow morning presented prizes to the By Our Staff Reporter winners. Dakshinamoorthy, The monthly Samashti who passed away last month, Gayathri homam will be was a chess lover and spon- performed from 6 a.m on sored several tournaments to Sunday, March 19 in Sankara propagate the game in Mutt (West Mambalam). Chennai. For more details, contact R. The event will be held every Sridharan Iyer in 98410 year. 97300. All are welcome. Page 4 MAMBALAM TIMES March 18 - 24, 2017 C M Policemen lock wheel of vehicle Wins Rs. 8,000 in Y Plot with vacant building misused K inter-college music contest By Our Staff Reporter V. G. Vigneshwar, a young and upcoming keyboard player compound wall to gain By Our Staff Reporter activities at night. (resident of D3, Rajendra access. A plot in Hanumanthan There is a building in the plot Apartments, 9, BRP First The plot is strewn with Street, T. Nagar (opposite which is vacant. Street, West Mambalam) By Our Staff Reporter empty liquor bottles, used Corporation Playground) is Though the gate is locked, bagged the first prize and a Traffic policeman seen locking a wheel of a vehicle parked in being misused by antisocial there is no watchman, and paper cups, garbage and cash award of Rs. 8,000 in the ‘No Parking Zone’ in Hindi Prachara Sabha Street, T. Nagar on elements for nefarious miscreants jump over the plastic waste. March 14. Inter Collegiate Music Contest conducted on March 11 by SSN Police arrest two chain Play equipment in Corporation Park College of Engineering, Kalavakkam. snatchers, recover jewellery damaged He is a final year B. Tech By Our Staff Reporter Some of the student in SRM Easwari A stolen bike helped police catch a two-member gang of chain children’s play Engineering College, Rama- snatchers on March 11. equipment are in a puram. They had gone on a chain-snatching spree in various parts damaged condition Vigneswar performs solo of the city including this neighbourhood over the past two in the Corporation and as an accompanist for months. Playground leading vocalists in temples and Mambalam Police seized 55 sovereigns of jewellery from the (Somasundaram sabhas during music festivals duo who were identified as Saravanan, 23, of Erukkanchery, Street, T. Nagar). and other events. He also and Ghouse Basha alias Riaz, 23, of Pattalam. There are holes in participates in private A special team headed by Saravanan (Dy. Commissioner, T. the plastic slide and programs with several music Nagar), was formed after a series of chain-snatching incidents the swings are miss- groups. were reported in the area. Police said Ghouse Basha was a ing from the frame. His contact number is 2474 small time racer, while Saravanan had been accused in a The parents 6358. murder case and detained under the Goondas Act before have also com- coming out of prison recently. plained that the Learn ‘Basic Life They had stolen a motorbike parked in front of a house in children’s play area Support’ and save Chinmaya Nagar on March 9 and snatched chains from two is misused for play- women walking on the street in Virugambakkam and ing cricket by big lives Vadapalani. The incidents, along with the registration number boys. QHEALTH4U (F159, F of the bike, were caught in CCTVs installed in both localities. Block 5th Street, East Anna The police immediately alerted the other stations and a vigil Frequent overflow of sewage water Nagar, Ph”2626 6703) was kept for the stolen bike and the duo. organises free training in ‘Ba- An hour later, police intercepted the duo on the stolen bike in Giri Road sic Life Support’ (BLS) in ac- near Virugambakkam and arrested them. credited hospitals in the neighbourhood. On interrogation, the men revealed their involvement in This is in line with the Cen- several chain-snatching incidents in T. Nagar, Ashok Nagar, tral Government’s ‘Good Sa- Kodambakkam, Teynampet, Mambalam, Vadapalani, maritan’ program to encour- Virugambakkam and Valasaravakkam in the past two months.