MYLAPORE TIMES YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWSPAPER Vol. 25, No. 34 March 6 - 12, 2021 12 pages Free Circulation OFFICE : 2498 2244, 2467 1122 EDITORIAL : 2466 0269 WEBSITE : www.mylaporetimes.com 2 MYLAPORE TIMES Mar 6 - 12, 2021 USEFUL CONTACTS DID YOU KNOW? REGISTRATION DEPT. Anna Institute of Management: ● Office – 100, San Thome High Road, Pattinampakkam, Chennai – 28. Ph: 2464 0160. R. A. Puram MYLAPORE TALUK OFFICE What is the focus of this ● No. 28, Greenways Road, R. A. Puram, Chennai – 28. Institute? Ph: 2433 1292. The Institute mainly conducts ESEVA CENTRES training pro- grammes for offic- ● At R. A. Puram - No. 28, Pasumpon Muthuramalingam ers already serving Salai, R. A. Puram (near Greenways Road Railway in the government. Station). Inside Tahsildar Office campus. Who can get ● At CIT Colony - 9, CIT Colony, 6th Cross Street, trained here? Mylapore. 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This signalled the start of what is technically last Here are the key events year’s fest that had to be held back due to the onset of of the 2021 edition of the the pandemic. Panguni festival of Sri Kapali The fest is being held now on a small scale. Then fol- Temple, Mylapore. lows the 2021 fest on the grand scale. March 7 : Small Thiru Ther. March 8 : Procession March 19 – Kodiyetram. of key four nayanmars ( post-noon), event on Poompa- March 21 – Adikara Nandi. vai legend (morning). March 9 : Bikshandar Utsavam March 23 – Rishaba Vahanam. (evening). March 10: Thiru Kalyanam and Kodiyirakkam March 25 – Thiruther. (evening) March 26 – Arabathumoovar. All processions will be held inside the temple. Public March 28 – Thirukalyanam are allowed to participate. Hansini is national champ in cadet girls section This year’s table tennis International Table Tennis Fed- national champion in cadets is eration World junior circuit, Swed- UP TO 11-year-old Mylaporean Hansini ish junior and cadet open tourna- M. She won the cadet girls’ title ment, held in Orebro, in the under at the UTT-82nd National 13 (mini-cadet) category. She faced championship held at Indore. paddlers from over 36 countries. A student of P. S. Senior Further, she was a runner-up Secondary School, she has shown in the under-15 cadet girls’ singles great potential and progress in the Group B matches. She has OFF* over the years under the represented India at the Interna- coaching of A. Srinivasa Rao (NIS tional Table Tennis Federation 60% coach, Dronacharya awardee), training camp for the South East From 4.3.21 A. Muralidhara Rao (coach, Team Asian HOPES and CADET category and conditions apply. *Terms India), and Meenakshi Ganesh in December 2019, at Kathmandu, SURPLUS SALE (state coach). Nepal. to 9.3.21 Having started training only A recipient of the Khelo India four years ago at the Mylapore scholarship, and an inductee into Prestige Xclusive Sports Trust (MST), and then at the Champions Development SDAT - AKG Table Tennis Development Centre at Scheme of Sports, Sports Development Authority Jawaharlal Nehru stadium, Hansini has already of Tamil Nadu, the coaches expect Hansini to be a at SRI SANKARA HALL, TTK ROAD shown a meteoritic rise in the sport. young sportstar. She won a bronze for India at her first interna- Hansini resides in Lakshmi Apartments, tional tournament at the 2020 4th Street, Abiramapuram 86092 12345 MYLAPORE TIMES Mar 6 - 12, 2021 VINCENT’s JOTTINGS LETTERS FROM READERS Letters to the Editor must carry the complete postal address of the correspondent. By VINCENT D’ SOUZA Mail to - [email protected] The palm toddy season began sometime ago. And the Book on cuisine of Thanjavur Maharashtrians nungu is being cropped and sold. Jackfruit will follow. As gets more attention will water melons and mangoes. Summer brings with it many joys. Thank you for featuring the news on the award for my book Travelling down the East Coast Road ( ECR), we veered on the cuisine of Thanjavur Maharashtrians. The reach has been off into a coastal village where a resident contact had invited immense with snippets being shared across many WhatsApp us to taste fresh toddy tapped from the palm trees. It was groups. Greetings and wishes have been pouring in - from past dusk so we hesitated - the best toddy comes down be- neighbours to those all over India, USA, UK and Australia. fore dawn. But we took the next step and toddy tapper Sivan Readers who were earlier unable to contact me, have used the entertained us. phone number provided to appreciate, thank and share with me The second round of tapping happens after 4 p.m. so their experiences on using the book. there was no harm partaking of the juice that evening. Sivan Many non-Thanjavur Maharashtrians have called to narrate is a traditional tapper, rendered work-less after the state their childhood memories of being treated to Maharashtrian fes- banned toddy and has laid low a huge community, leaving tivals and food by their neighbours in their Thanjavur homes, Tamil Nadu’s national tree withering like unkempt ghosts. citing joy over this being documented. But Sivan and his group haven’t given up, amusing avari- File photo - Jaishri Rao, Alwarpet cious local police with some grease while serving their clien- tele. He has created a nice space at his home for customers Photo: Lakshman Rao to settle for a person and the specs to sit and enjoy the toddy and also serves egg and karuvaad. matched well with the requirements Adds to his earnings as a part time mason. Having stayed and the fee too. That’s the power of the back in these environs that day, we visited another village neighbourhood newspaper early next morning for toddy - at 25 rupees a mug it was heavenly, the mist chilling the juices mildly. - Baskar Seshadri, Mandaveli Today, the tender coconut hawkers on this highway also offer you fresh nungu. And some, early jackfruits. The Corona: do not let your water melons seem to have had a slightly bad seasonal start. guard down These fruits also make it to the hawking spaces of Mylapore, A relative in Mandaveli succumbed Mandaveli and Thiruvanmiyur. As is padha-neer, hawked to COVID recently. He was not even by cycling sellers in our marketplaces. R. A. Puram colony needs aware that he was infected. He had a cold for I wish there was a better marketing chain that would civic attention a few days. Then breathlessness, one night. bring decent returns for the farmers on the ECR whose end Krishna Puri in R. A. Puram has been Admitted to a hospital the next morning, he consumers are you and me. crying for GCC’s attention and care. The was diagnosed with COVID and admitted in A fortnight ago, a Jesuit priest friend who works with local park and neighborhood areas need at- the ICU. He passed away the next day. fisher folks invited me to a meeting of fisherwomen who tention. The park has a sickly look needing This has shattered all of us. He was in his work in lakes and inland waterways. Fishing does not bring white-washing and regular maintenance. early 60s. No predisposing conditions. Goes great returns so the women spoke about other vocations - Lakshman Rao, R.