C M Y MAMBALAM K TIMES The Neighbourhood Newspaper for T. Nagar & Mambalam www.mambalamtimes.in Vol. 17, No. 35 867th Issue : January 28 - February 3, 2012 FREE Page 2 MAMBALAM TIMES January 28 - February 3, 2012 T. NAGAR BAZAAR Washing Machines, Fridges, A/cs, Microwave Ovens Services T. Nagar / Mambalam POLYWOOD Loft cover, Pooja Shelf, Cupboard, 5% - 10 % Showcase, Discount Modern Kitchen, upto Feb.3 False Ceiling, Painting VISWA ENTERPRISES VADAPALANI 98400 18492, 6537 9721 www.viswadecorators.com, E-mail: [email protected] January 28 - February 3, 2012 MAMBALAM TIMES Page 3 Fire destroys 4 vegetable shops Hayagreevar homam next Sunday By Our Staff Reporter By Our Staff Reporter 12 noon: Prasadam distribu- 4 vegetable shops on Rail- Thamiznadu Brahmin Asso- tion. All are welcome. ciation ( 23 /10, Dr. Ramasamy More details can be had in way Border Road, West Mam- phones 98407 87957 and balam were destroyed in a fire Road, K. K. Nagar) has orga- nized ‘Sri Hayagreeva, 91766 51942 on Jan. 20 night. Dakshinamurthy homam’ at Apart from vegetables, wei- 8 a.m on Sunday, Feb. 5 in ghing machines and other ar- PSBB School, Alagirisamy ticles were also destroyed. Salai, K. K. Nagar. Personnel from T. Nagar Fire The following are details: & Service Station, alerted by 8 a.m: Sri Ganapathy pooja. vendors sleeping on the pave- 10 a.m: Sri Hayagreeva ment, put out the fire. homam. There are about 170 shops 11 a.m: Sri Vidya Saraswathi on the stretch but no other homam. shop was affected. 11.30 a.m: Poornahuthi. Thyagaraja Aradhana concerts today, tomorrow By Our Staff Reporter gachari (vocal), N. S. Kama- Jan. 29 p.m: Disciples of Dr. S. See- Sri Sathguru Gana Nilayam kshi (violin), B. Sriharshan 7 a.m: Sowbhagyalakshmi thalakshmi (vocal); 1.10 p.m: (G1, Janakam Apartments, (mridangam); 1.30 p.m: Dis- & party (devaganam); 9 a.m: Parthasarathy & party (flute); 180, Lake View Road, West ciples of Embar Kasturi (vo- Kasturirangan (vocal), Ana- 1.30 p.m: Rendering of Sri Mambalam) has organized cal); 1.45 p.m: Hema Aravind yampati Venkatasubraman- Thyagaraja Swamigal kritis by 60th year Saint Thyagaraja (vocal), N. S. Kamakshi (vio- yum (violin), M. S. Varadhan eminent personalities; 3 p.m: Aradhana on Jan. 28 and 29 in lin), Nagai Vishaal Prabhakar (mridangam), Shankar (gan- ‘Layasamarpanam’ by stu- SMR Matriculation School, (mridangam); 2.15 p.m: jira); 10.15 a.m: Violin ensemble dents of Sri Sadguru Gana Jothi Ramalingam Street, Pranavi and Vaishnavi (vocal), by students of Carva Raja- Nilayam; 3.45 p.m: Sangeetha West Mambalam. N. S. Kamakshi (violin), Saba- sekar, Neyveli Ramkumar upanyasam by Nagai Veera- The following is the program: rish Lakshmipathy (mridan- (mridangam), S. Manikandan ragavachariyar, S. V. Sudha- Jan. 28 gam); 2.30 p.m: Niveydita (vo- (morsing); 12 noon: Disciples rshan (mridangam); 5.30 p.m: 7 a.m: Unjavrithi; 7.30 a.m: cal), N. S. Kamakshi (violin), of S. V. Usha (vocal), Sreyes Pancharathna goshtiganam Bhajans by Nannilam Rama- Vishaal Prabhakar (mridan- (violin), Ravidoss (mridan- by eminent personalities; 7.30 nadha Bhagavathar; 8.30 a.m: gam); 2.45 p.m: Varsha, Swe- gam); 12.20 p.m: Disciples of p.m: Anjaneya utsavam by Bhabre and Dhruv (vocal), N. tha, Sai Smrathi, Balasundari, Geetha Kalyanaraman (vo- Murali Bhagavathar. S. Kamakshi (violin), Goma- Radhika (vocal), N. S. Kama- cal), Sreyes (violin), Sabaris All are welcome. thysankar (mridangam), Ma- kshi (violin), Srivatsan (mri- Lakshmipathy (mridangam); More details can be had in nikandan (morsing); 9.45 a.m: dangam); 3 p.m: Kolkata 12.35 p.m: Sreyes (violin solo), phones 98408 70446, 97899 Pathanjali (flute), C. G. Kuma- Vijayaraghavan (vocal), Kovai Sriram (mridangam); 12.50 02588 and 94442 53979. resan (violin), Poongulam Chandran (violin), Kumba- Ramakrishnan (mridangam), konam Ramakrishnan (mri- Special program in Sankara Adambakkam Shankar (gha- dangam), Adambakkam Shan- tam); 11 a.m: Bhanu Swami- kar (ghatam); 4.15 p.m: Se- Math on Monday nathan (vocal), Kailasam (vio- etha Narayanan (vocal), Kovai Sri Sringeri Jagadguru San- a.m: Abhishegam for Rath- lin), Krishnamachari (mridan- Chandran (violin), Poongulam kara Math (38/29, Krupasan- nagarba Ganapathy, Shara- gam), Shankar (ganjira); 12.15 Subramanyum (mridangam); kari Street, West Mambalam) dhambal & Navaneetha Kri- p.m: Disciples of Subha (vo- 5.45 p.m: Anayampati Gane- has organized a special pro- shna; 12.30 p.m: Rudhra cal), Sreyes (violin), Srivatsam san (vocal), Dr. M. Chandra- gram on Monday, Jan. 30 homam; 12.45 p.m: Kalasa (mridangam); 12.30 p.m: Dis- sekaran (violin), Madhiri- (Prathista Dinam). The follow- abhishegam, deeparadhanai; ciples of Kousalya (vocal), mangalam Swaminathan ing are details: 6.30 p.m: Vinayagar, Ambal, Sreyes (violin), Kalakadu (mridangam); 7.45 p.m: Palla- 7.45 a.m: Ganapathy ho- Navaneethakrishnan proces- Ramakrishnan (mridangam); dam Venkatramana Rao & mam; 8 a.m: Mahanyasa sion. More details can be had in 1 p.m: Disciples of P. B. Ren- party (Harmonium). Ekadhasa Rudhra Japam; 9 phone 2483 5701. Page 4 January 28 - February 3, 2012 MAMBALAM TIMES C M Y Cops keep tabs on senior citizens living alone K By Our Staff Reporter their area and advising them zens at Lodi Khan Street, T. helped to pay phone and elec- Policemen are visiting the to put them up at a convenient Nagar on Jan. 22. tricity bills. residences of senior citizens liv- place for ready reference. He said that policemen have M. Tamilselvan (Asst. Com- ing alone to assure them that This process of interaction been allotted areas of opera- missioner of Police, T. Nagar they are always available to was explained by G. Ashok tion. Range), R. Alagu (Inspector, respond to calls for help. Kumar (Deputy Commis- They maintain a list of se- R4 Pondy Bazaar Police Sta- They are also handing over a sioner of Police, T. Nagar Dis- nior citizens and call on them tion), G. Prabhu (Inspector) list of phone numbers of police trict) during a meeting between at regular intervals. and other police officials were officials and police stations in police officials and senior citi- If required, they are also present. Bus hits senior MLA’s Rs. 50-lakh renovation plan for citizen inside terminus bus terminus By Our Staff Reporter He disclosed this during a meeting with MTC staff and A. Ganapathy (74) of Adam- commuters in the terminus on bakkam sustained serious in- Jan. 23. juries in his left leg when the He told Mambalam Times front wheel of an air-conditioned that commuters wanted speed MTC bus (TN 09 N 8663) on breakers installed to discour- route 576 (Kancheepuram-T. age rash driving. (A senior citi- Nagar) ran over it inside the T. zen was seriously injured when Nagar bus terminus at 10 a.m he was hit by a bus in the ter- on Jan. 23. minus on Jan. 23). He was admitted in Govern- They also wanted proper ment General Hospital and boards indicating timings of later shifted to Sri Ramachan- services and seats for waiting dra Hospital, Porur. commuters. He was waiting for a bus He said that he had put up inside the terminus when the the proposal as the processing of the plan for the multi-storey bus that hit him appeared sud- By Our Staff Reporter to be allotted from the his Con- parking lot may take time. denly from nowhere. He es- V. P. Kalairajan (T. Nagar stituency Development Fund Kalairajan appealed to resi- caped certain death by swerv- MLA) has given a proposal to pending the proposal to con- dents to contact him for any ing at the last second but was MTC to renovate T. Nagar ter- struct a multi-storied parking assistance in phone 94440 run over. Pondy Bazaar police minus at a cost of Rs. 50 lakhs lot in the terminus. 13892. are investigating the case. Commuters told Mamba- lam Times that they find it Composes music for short film difficult to find out the bus tim- ings and where buses on differ- on HIV awareness By Our Staff Reporter ent routes are parked. Buses P. Dayanand (resident of 1, can be found parked even on Jagathambal Street, Periyar Burkit Road for want of space Nagar, Nespakkam) has in the terminus. composed the music for ‘Hero’, Free counselling the 2-minute film on HIV meet on CA course awareness produced by an NGO. By Our Staff Reporter The film has been released in Sri Sankara Coaching Cen- Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada tre (14, Chitrakulam West and Marathi. Street, Mylapore) will conduct Dayanand has composed a free counselling meeting on music for 15 short films and the new regulations of the In- TV and theater commercial stitute of Chartered Accoun- advertisements. tants of India (ICAI) and scope The short films include of CA course for students and ‘Ilakanna Pellai’, ‘Bombaram’, parents at 10 a.m on Sunday, ‘Puzhuthi Aattam’ and ‘Kadhal sing music for a full length Tamil School, T. Nagar and did Stds. Jan. 29 in Bharatiya Vidya Kaditham’ which were telecast film. 11 and 12 in Jaigopal Garodia Bhavan Auditorium, East in ‘Naalaiya Ekkunar’ program He told Mambalam Times School, West Mambalam. He Mada Street, Mylapore. by Kalaignar TV. His work was that he has obtained 4th grade holds a B. Tech (IT) degree. R. Nagarajan (former ICAI appreciated by K. Balachander certificate (Western and Clas- His father Piraisudan is an Chairman) will give a power- and Balaji Sakthivel (Film sical) from London Trinity eminent writer. point presentation on profes- directors), Madhan (Cartooni- College of Music. Dayanand can be contacted sional courses in commerce and st, journalist and film reviewer) His favourite instrument is in phones 2485 2030 and science streams.