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Traffic changes from today to cope withrush of Deepavali shoppersBy Our Staff Reporter

Police have announced cer/tain changes in the pattern oftraffic in T. Nagar in view of therush of shoppers expected forDeepavali.

The new arrangements willtake effect on Saturday, Oct. 8and remain in force till afterthe festival.

As part of the changes,Usman Road flyover will beone way with entry from NorthUsman Road and no entry fromMadley Road junction.

Autorickshaws will not beallowed on VenkatanarayanaRoad and Nageswaran Road;from Brindavan Street-Tham-biah Road junction to PanagalPark; on Muthurangan Salai

towards Madley junction; fromKannammapet junction toMadley junction; from CoatsRoad and North Usman ser-vice road to Panagal Park; fromRohini roundabout to PanagalPark; from North Usman Road-Maharajapuram SanthanamSalai junction to Panagal Park;on bylanes connecting Dhan-dapani Street with UsmanRoad; on bylanes connectingSouth Dhandapani Street andSouth Usman Road.

Temporary parking facilitiesfor autorickshaws will beprovided on Burkit Road,Dhandapani Street, Venkata-narayana Road near Thiyaga-raya Club, Bashyam Road andCoats Road. Parking facilities

for 2-wheelers and 4-wheelerswill be available on Muthu-rangan Salai, G. N. ChettyRoad, arou-nd Somasundaramplaygrou-nd, ThiyagarayaRoad western side (only forcars) and eastern side (for 2-wheelers), Venkata-narayanaRoad and Burkit Road northernside (for cars).

On holidays, parking facilitywill be available in CorporationHigher Secondary School onPrakasam Road, and Rama-krishna Main School andRamakrishna School on BurkitRoad.

Vehicles carrying goods willnot be allowed to enter T. Nagarbetween 10 a.m. and 10 p.m, apress release said.

By Our Staff ReporterIn view of the rush of shoppers expected for Deepavali

shopping, police are evicting pavement hawkers from UsmanRoad and the service road along Usman Road flyover at regularintervals.

Pavement hawkers beingevicted

By Our Staff ReporterMetrowater will conduct its

monthly grievances redressalmeeting from 10 a.m to 1 p.m

Metrowater grievancesredressal meet today

on Saturday, Oct. 8 inMetrowater Area 8 Office (8,Muthukrishnan Street, T.Nagar).

Residents coming underCorporation Divisions 114 to129 are welcome to air theirgrievances regarding watersupply.

Consumers can also clarifydoubts regarding water, sew-erage tax and water charges inthe meeting.

The meeting is conducted onthe 2nd Saturday of everymonth.

More details can be had inphone 2815 3803.

Poompuhar’s‘Crafts Mela’ tillOct. 17By Our Staff Reporter

Poompuhar has organized‘Crafts Mela’, an exclusive ex-hibition of handcrafted sareesand handicrafts sale till Oct. 17in Kamadhenu KalyanaMandapam, 178, Luz ChurchRoad, Mylapore.

It is open from 10 a.m to 8p.m on all days including Sun-days.

On sale are bronze icons,brass lamps, Tanjore paint-ings, rose wood furniture, semiprecious jewellery, churidharsand bedsheets.

‘Hanuman JanmaNakshathra pooja’By Our Staff Reporter

Sanjeevini Peetam (16/45,BRP 1st Street, West Mam-balam) will conduct ‘Sri Hanu-man Janma Nakshathrapooja’ at 11 a.m on Monday,Oct.10 in its premises.

There will be 108 tender co-conut astothra pooja, pushpaalangaaram and chanting ofSri Hanuman Chalisa.

All are welcome.More details can be had in

phone 2471 2231, 9043568941 and www.sanjeevinipeetam.com.

Free Veda classesthrice a weekBy Our Staff Reporter

Kurichi Lakshminarasim-hachariar (resident of 8, 2nd

Main Road, CIT Nagar East,Nandanam) conducts freeVeda and Suktham classesfrom 9 a.m to 10 a.m onMondays, Wednesdays andFridays.

More details can be had inphone 98406 40705.

Blood donationcamp tomorrowBy Our Staff Reporter

Mahalakshmi BadmintonClub and Sri Krishna Sweetswill conduct a blood donationcamp from 9 a.m to 2 p.m onSunday, Oct. 9 in Sri RKM High-er Secondary School (Main),54, Burkit Road, T. Nagar.

The blood will be collected byJeevan Blood Bank.

More details can be had in2434 6854 and 98406 39934.

Discourseson Shirdi SaiBy Our Staff Reporter

Under the auspices of SriShirdi Sai Meditation Mandir(6, Sarojini Street, T. Nagar)there are discourses on ‘How toget rid of curses of your lifethrough Sai prayer’ at 6.30 p.mon Sundays.

T. Thiruvalluvan (Founder)told Mambalam Times thatmass spiritual healing is con-ducted at 7.30 p.m on Thurs-days and Sundays.

All are welcome.More details can be had in

2643 2323, 4212 5118 and94444 53777.

ISKCON programin MambalamBy Our Staff Reporter

The International Society forKrishna Consciousness (ISKCON), Injambakkam, con-ducts ‘Bakthi Vriksha’ pro-grams from 7 p.m to 9 p.m onSaturdays at 28, South K. R.Koil Street, West Mambalam.

The program includesbhajans, congregational chan-ting and Bhagwad Gita classes.

More details can be had inphone 2371 3606 or fromRanga Krishna Das (24744900, 98400 27800).

All are welcome.

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By Our Staff ReporterA portrait of The Mother will

be installed in Mother’s Pyra-mid in Sri Annai Ashram (14,Jaishankar Street, WestMambalam) at 8 a.m on Sun-day, Oct. 9 as part of 2nd anni-versary celebrations.

Annai Adigal (Founder, SriAnnai Ashram) told Mamba-lam Times that devotees canpresent their problems and de-sires before the portrait daily.

He said that more than 50divine flowers will be exhibitedfrom 8 a.m to 12 noon and 4p.m to 8 p.m as part of thecelebrations.

Annai Ashram anniversary celebrationstomorrow

There will be a talk on ‘SavitriMahimai’ at 5 p.m the sameday. Annai Adigal said that pic-tures of The Mother (depictingMahalakshmi and MahaKaali), Life Divine Book inTamil and copies of Savitrimantras will be distributedamong life members on theoccasion. All are welcome.

He said that a building forAnnai Ashram is under con-struction on Arya Gowda Road,West Mambalam and appealedfor donations to complete it.

More details can be had in2474 6000, 98414 22456 and99412 48456.

By Our Staff ReporterBen Center (10/30, Velu

street, West Mambalam) will

Free Tally classes for students from Monday

conduct free Tally classes for45 days from Monday, Oct. 10for school and college students

studying Commerce and Ac-countancy.

R. ChidambaraSubramanian (Founder) toldMambalam Times that therewill be two batches - from 6 p.mto 7 p.m on Mondays, Wednes-days and Fridays, and from 8p.m to 9 p.m on Tuesdays,Thursdays and Saturdays.

He can be contacted in 23717123 and 99419 19019.

Subramanian said that thefree computer course for the9th batch of senior citizens willalso commence on Oct. 10.Hundreds of senior citizens hadbenefitted from the course, headded.

Subramanian appealed fordonations for his free pro-grams.

Plea for donation of provisions for projectBy Our Staff Reporter

Manava Seva DharmaSamvardhani Trust has ap-pealed for donations of dhal,cooking oil and sugar, prefer-ably 1 kg. each, for its ‘DOS’project (dhal, oil, sugar project).

The provisions may behanded over at the Trust’scounter in Tex Biosciences Pri-vate Limited, Textan House,75, 4th Avenue, Ashok Nagarbetween 9 a.m and 5 p.m on alldays except Sunday.

K. P. Krishnammachari(Project Co-ordinator and Man-aging Director, Tex Bio-sciences) told MambalamTimes that under the existingscheme, started in 1993, 1 kg.each of toor dhal, oil and su-gar are collected once a monthfrom 1000 individual familiesand distributed among 47NGOs in Chennai and its sub-urbs.

Homes like Banyan, Vish-ranthi and Shivasakthi Kak-kum Karangal

Krishnammachari said thatthe aim is to increase the num-

ber of donor families to at least5000 by covering Thiruvallur,Chengalpattu and Kanchee-

puram Districts. More details may be had

from 4298 8700.

Sai bhajanson 3 days a weekBy Our Staff Reporter

Sri Sathya Sai Samiti, T.Nagar conducts Sai bhajansevery week in the followingvenues in T. Nagar:

Sai Keshav Hall, 157, G. N.Chetty Road (near PanagalPark, Vijaya Bank building):Saturdays, 5.10 p.m.

Ayurvedhaasramam, 155,G. N. Chetty Road (nearPanagal Park), Mondays, 6p.m.

50/38, Motilal Street (oppo-site Ranganathan Street),Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

All are welcome.More details can be had from

D. Srinivasa Rao (9840050875) or C. Ramamurthy(94440 54819).

Workshop on HIVfor NGOson MondayBy Our Staff Reporter

As part of ‘Joy of Giving Week’celebrations, iVolunteerChennai will conduct a 1-dayworkshop on ‘HIV Information- recent trends and develop-ments’ for about 30 partici-pants from various NGOs from11 a.m to 4 p.m on Monday,Oct. 10 in F 5, 2nd floor, Pari-jadam Apartments, 10, Kup-pusamy Street, T. Nagar.

Padmavathy (State Presi-dent, Positive Women Net-work) will conduct the session.

Talk on RamanaMaharishion Wednesday

T. G. Narayanaswamy’s talkin Tamil on ‘Ramana Maha-rishi’ will be played at 7 p.m onWednesday, Oct. 12 in EspeeComplex, 52/62, BrindavanStreet, West Mambalam (op-posite Data Udupi Hotel).

All are welcome.More details can be had had

in 97890 59591.

By Our Staff ReporterSevas (50, Dharga Road,

Rajaji Nagar, Pallavaram) issending volunteers for week-long service to pilgrims inTirumala starting on Sundaysand ending on Saturdays.

Men and women who arephysically fit and are willing to

Calling volunteers for free service in Tirumalastay in Tirumala for a week arewelcome to offer their servicesfor 6 hours everyday.

The work will be of supervi-sory nature.

Accommodation, lunch anddinner will be provided free ofcost.

They can have special dar-

shan of Lord Venkateswara.Travelling expense and the

cost of breakfast must be borneby the volunteers.

Those interested can con-tact Nalini Ravikumar (18/43,Jubilee Road, West Mam-balam) in 99621 53644, L. S.V. Mahadevan (98411 76386),

P. Sundaram (98417 26695)or D. Gopinath (94442 09751).

GAMBLERS ANONYMOUSmeets at

Holy Angels Conventevery Sunday

from 11.30 a.m to 1 p.m.All compulsive gamblerswho wish to get rid of the

habit are welcome

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October 8 - 14, 2011 Page 5

By Our Staff ReporterV. P. Kalairajan (MLA, T.

Nagar) has arranged for de-ployment of 5 private lorries toclear accumulated garbage ona number of streets.

Kalairajan told MambalamTimes that though Neel MetalFanalca’s contract with Chen-

MLA deploys private lorries to clear garbageMLA deploys private lorries to clear garbage

nai Corporation for garbageclearing ends only in Decem-ber, the company had stoppedgarbage clearance in T. Nagarresulting in huge piles of un-cleared rubbish.

He said that following a num-ber of complaints from resi-dents, he had taken tempo-

rary steps to get the garbagein T. Nagar, Ashok Nagar andK. K. Nagar cleared by Corpo-ration workers using privatelorries.

Kalairajan said that resi-

dents can contact him in 24333338 for garbage related prob-lems.

He also invited suggestionsfrom residents to reduce traf-fic congestion in T. Nagar area.

Garbage dumped under the recently openedflyover connecting Bazullah Road and

Railway Border Road.

Young dancer felicitatedBy Our Staff Reporter

S. Sruuthi (resident of 44/21,Bagirathi Ammal Street, T.Nagar and Std. 4 student ofPSBB School, T. Nagar) wasfelicitated by Jagadheesan(former Madras High CourtJudge) for her bharathanat-yam performances on ‘Free-dom Struggle’ and ‘ThankingMother Earth’ during the pro-gram organized by MTS Acad-emy, Nehru Yuva Kendra andGandhi Study Center as partof Gandhi celebrations inThakkar Bapa Vidyalaya, T.Nagar on Oct. 2.

Jagadheesan presented hera copy of the book ‘En Vazhkai

Kathai’, a Tamil translation ofMathatma Gandhi’s book.

She won the 2nd prize in thefancy dress competition andsloka recitation competitionconducted by TAMBRAS.

Samarpana students present program

By Our Staff ReporterStudents of Samarpana presented a music program on Sept. 25 in Vani Mahal, T. Nagar.They were accompanied by K. R. Suresh (violin), Arcot Balaji (mridangam) and Hari (tabla).Unni Krishnan presided over the program. Meenakshi Jayakumar (Lecturer, Government

Music College) spoke on ‘unknown facts about Lord Krishna’. T. K. Niranjana (Principal, LMDadha Senior Secondary School) was a special invitee.

FreeNarayaneeyamclasses for womenBy Our Staff Reporter

Bhama Krishna conductsfree Narayaneeyam classes forwomen from 11 a.m to 1 p.m onMondays, Wednesdays andThursdays in Sri Sarva PriyaMaha Ganapathi Temple(junction of Moorthy StreetExtension, West Mambalamand 7th Avenue, Ashok Nagar,near GRT School).

She can be contacted intelephone number 9790944800.

By Our Staff Reporter‘Amma’, a short film based

on the story penned by PushpaThangadurai (80) (resident of848, 91st Street, 13th Sector, K.K. Nagar), has been selected

Short film for Cannes festivalfor screening at the Interna-tional Festival in Cannes thisyear. It will also be screened inthe Moscow, Chicago and Or-lando international film festi-vals.

Thangadurai also did thescreenplay and wrote the dia-logue in Tamil and English forthe 35-minute film.

Illayaraja has composed themusic for his film which is hisfirst short film.

Prabhakaran (Art director)has directed the film.

Thangadurai can be con-tacted in phones 2366 2331/32/33 and 92831 11632.

Vishal wins 2nd prizein music contest

P. Vishal Karthik (residentof 14/27, 26th Street, 5th Av-enue, Ashok Nagar and UKGstudent of Jawahar VidyalayaKindergarten School, AshokNagar) won the 2nd prize in themusic competition conductedby Saras Swara Group of Mu-sic, Kodambakkam on Oct. 1.

‘Akandasahasranaamapaarayanam’next Saturday

Sri Prasanna Venkatesa Pe-rumal Vishnu SahasranamaMandali will conduct its 21st

Akanda sahasranaama paa-rayanam program from 6.30a.m to 6.30 p.m Saturday, Oct.15 in Sri Prasanna VenkatesaPerumal Temple, Mettupala-yam, West Mambalam.

There will be thirumanjanamand special alangaaram for thepresiding deity at 11.30 a.m.

There will bethirukkalyanam of Lord Balajiat 6.30 p.m on Sunday, Oct.16. All are welcome.

More details can be had in98412 94449.

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Half the trouble generated for the 10 to 5time-filler for the welfare of the inscrutableowner of the globe, variously labelled as God,Bhagavan, Allah et al, is preventable if God,once every ten hours or more, wakes up fromhis Kumbhakarna siestas.

The shouting supplicators for thehidden inexhaustible riches must have takenthe matrimonial oath “Yes, we will”, when thegood old God and Wife made the couple sign onthe dotted line which, in the course of a fewdays, being written in self-deleting ink, gotdeleted. The honeymooning couple were ad-vised by crooked lawyers that, since theSchedule did not contain the items and actu-ally there is no evidence of the acceptance of the liability to protect a goodman like M. A. Sadanand who had tumbledinto the snakepit of the legal profession, God,his Wife and the army of legal manipulatorswere not bound by the manifestation of theRoyal couple’s rantings, which if any, got self-deleted thanks to a pot of vanishing ink. The creators of the new profession ofdeceit through centuries of promoting, fakingand legal wild goose chasing, after millions ofignoramus make law in law factories,throve all over the world and called them-selves “Learned”, the coping stone in the build up. There were great men - not merelybrainy or vocabulary wise, but inherentlyhonest. All good things, bad things and forget-table things, people and incidents must end.Democracy has blessed many a forgettablefellows who, without political benediction,would have, at best, risen to the position of alawyer’s clerk.

God got chest pain laughing non-stop forhours because one chap stuck like a leach toa politician and was suffered to be one of thebunch of Government Pleaders when I wasthe chief G.P. After I was guillotined one finenight, he jumped up. Then, after many ropeswere shredded, this great jurist was upped asa judge. I had a small Civil Revision Petitionbefore him that could have been disposed ofin 5 minutes but, after 15 adjournments, notat my instance, I asked him to verify a datefrom his papers as my print was smudged. Hesaid, “Don’t put to me questions “. It took me40 years to learn that lesson.

After another adjournment, the case cameup before Justice Prabha Sridevan and it wasallowed in 5 minutes. Justicing is like theI.P.L or the Wimbledon or a Test withoutHarper.

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Classified Advertisements under the heads Accommodation Required, Old Age Home,Marriage Hall, Mini Hall,Real Estate (Buying & Selling) and Rental will be published on

this page. The charges are Rs. 300 upto 35 words; Bold Rs. 450. Ashok Nagar- K.K. Nagarand Mambalam-T.Nagar Editions: Rs. 400 (upto 35 words); Bold Rs. 600; Display: Rs. 220per col. centimeter. Each advertisement of Real Estate and Rental must relate to only

one house / flat. Advertisement will be received upto 1.00 p.m on Friday.

SPECIAL CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS

ACCOMMODATIONWANTED

BACHELOR’SACCOMMODATION

T. NAGAR, Pinjala Subramaniam Road, nearPanagal Park (central place), single room withspacious kitchen cum dining, pooja room, storeroom, balcony, bathroom (2 persons can share),bank/IT employees only, brokers excuse. Ph:2434 5209, 94456 15209.

GENTS HOSTELT. NAGAR, near T. Nagar bus terminus, gents

hostel, 24 hours water, low rent. Ph: 2432 2821,98402 60477.

MINI HALLBALAGRAHA A/c Mini hall, 6/31, Veerasamy

Street (next to SRM Nightingale School), WestMambalam, for conducting small functions. Ph:94449 18484, 2489 3884.

T. NAGAR, Sri Malola Mini Hall, New No.174, Habibullah Road, near KodambakkamRailway Station, available for small functions,non A/c. Ph: 2814 3406, 92831 12153, 95437 03073.

WEST MAMBALAM, Mahadevan Street(State Bank Building) 2 Halls – Kamakshi MiniHall A/c (100 guests), Kamakshi Hall A/c (200guests) Newly opened. Contact: 4351 2233, 43512556, 99404 54545, 94450 54545.www.kamakshihall.com

MARRIAGE HALLWEST MAMBALAM, Vasantham Kalyana

Mandapam, vacant on February 8, 9 & 10. Pleasecontact S. Rangarajan. Ph: 99529 68601.

OLD AGE HOMEGOOD senior citizen home in Keelakattalai. 3

times food, 2 times coffee, clothes washed by us,doctor, attender available, hospital, temples,banks, bus stand very near, food prepared byBrahmins, monthly fees Rs. 5500. Ph: 9884056233, 98840 56203.

REAL ESTATE (BUYING)

single bedroom flat, hall, kitchen, 3 phaseconnection, Brahmins only, 2-wheeler parking.Ph: 96001 06536.

T. NAGAR, Madley Street, near railway station& bus terminus, 2 bedroom, hall, kitchen, balcony,bath attached, apartment, car park, rent Rs. 9500.Ph: 2433 3477, 98411 93685. Family or bachelorsalso.

WEST MAMBALAM, Thambiah Reddy StreetMain, very spacious double bedroom, dining, poojaroom, service area, 1450 sq.ft, independent groundfloor, car park, marble flooring, rent Rs. 19000,advance 1.5 lakhs (negotiable). Contact: MohanPh: 98407 27065.

T. NAGAR, Habibullah Road, near TCS, PSBBSchool, Hexaware, self contained A/c flat, allamenities, employed software, vegetarians only,brokers excuse. Ph: 2834 0871, 96770 50155.

WEST MAMBALAM, Kurunji Apartments(Navins), No. 20/29, Thambiah Road Extension,double bedroom, marble flooring, 1st floor, lift, carparking, immediate occupation, brokers excuse,vegetarians only. Ph: 2483 2580, 94440 33274.

WEST MAMBALAM, Door No. 19/11,Vadivelpuram, near Srinivasa Theater, 3 bedroom,hall, kitchen, store room, 2 bathroom (Indian &western toilets), living area 1000 sq.ft, 3 phaseconnection, electrical fittings, 24 hours watersupply, rent Rs. 18000, Brahmins only, no brokers.Ph: 96770 57935, 2485 3717.

WEST MAMBALAM, Srinivasa Pillai Street,opp. Sathyanarayana Temple, 2nd floor, newbuilding, 3 bedroom, road facing, 1 balcony, 2bath, 1 geyser, 3 phase, Brahmins only, brokersexcuse. Ph: 2471 1328, 99406 60313.

T. NAGAR, Motilal Street, near TTD, 2bedroom, independent house, ground floor, rentRs. 15000, Brahmins only. Contact: Ramesh, Ph:98411 15722.

ASHOK NAGAR, 7th Avenue, Sridevi Colony,independent house, 2nd floor, 3 bedroom, 2 bathattached, big hall, kitchen, balcony, covered carparking, copious water, monthly rent Rs. 14500.Ph: 98840 48968.

WEST MAMBALAM, Jubilee Road, spacious2 bedroom, 750 sq.ft, 2nd floor, no lift, 2-wheelerparking, brokers excuse, Brahmins only. Ph:98418 30743, 93805 16388.

T. NAGAR, Madley 1st Street, very close tobus terminus, 2 bedroom apartment, only smallBrahmin family, brokers excuse. Ph: 98402 81452.

2 BEDROOMS, ground floor of an independentbungalow, car park, behind Post Office on 2nd

Avenue, near Grand Sweets, Plot No. 3362-D, AEBlock 8th Street, Anna Nagar. Ph: 2621 3303.

T. NAGAR, No. 9, Ramanujam Street, 2bedroom apartment, only vegetarians, visitbetween 11 a.m and 1 p.m on 08/10/11, brokersexcuse. Ph: 99520 42683.

WEST MAMBALAM, Rajaji Street, spacious2 bedroom, hall, kitchen, 2nd floor, rent Rs. 15000,Brahmins only. Ph: 95000 32230.

T. NAGAR, Sivasailam Street, near PSBBnew school, hall, kitchen, toilet, service area,ground floor, minimum 3 occupants, rent Rs.7500, advance 7 months. Ph: 2834 4096.

T. NAGAR, Moosa Street, near Burkit Roadand Venkatanarayana Road junction, newly built,2 bedroom, both bath attached, dining & livingroom, independent ground floor, car parking, 24hours metro/borewell water, rent Rs. 20000,brokers excuse, Brahmins only. Ph: 98414 44371.

WEST MAMBALAM, Postal Colony 2nd Street,2 bedroom flat, 2nd floor, 1000 sq.ft, fully furnished,lift facility, open car parking, brokers excuse. Ph:94440 25541, 98846 16955.

WEST MAMBALAM, 13/10, Velu Street,

WEST MAMBALAM, Lake View Road, 2nd

lane, near Bank of India, West Mambalam branch,independent house, 1 bedroom, hall, kitchen, 520sq.ft, ground floor, 2-wheeler parking, rent Rs.7500, small Brahmin family only, brokers excuse.Inspection on Sunday, time: 9 a.m to 12 noon. Ph:99405 19721.

WEST MAMBALAM, Ethiraj Nagar, nearMettupalayam Market, independent house, 1st floor,1000 sq.ft (900 sq.ft), 2 bedroom, hall, kitchen,dining, single toilet, rent Rs. 8500 (negotiable), 2-wheeler parking, no brokers. Ph: 96290 04592.

ASHOK NAGAR, 11th Avenue, near RelianceFresh, 900 sq.ft, 1st floor flat, 2 bedroom, hall,kitchen, attached bathroom, car parking, lift, rentRs. 13500, pure vegetarian small family. Contact:Vijay, Ph: 99401 31848.

WEST MAMBALAM, K.R. Koil Street, nearNarayana Mission School, independent, groundfloor, 500 sq.ft, single bedroom house, bath, toiletseparate, as per EB card, 2-wheeler parking,even non-veg., rent Rs. 7000, advance Rs. 40000.Contact: Vasu, Ph: 98402 45149.

WEST MAMBALAM, Jubilee Road, 750 sq.ft,double bedroom flat, 2nd floor, 4 balconies, 2attached bath, even non-veg, 2-wheeler parking,rent Rs. 15000, advance Rs. 1 lakh (negotiable).Contact: Vasu, Ph: 98402 45149.

VADAPALANI/K.K. Nagar, S.V. Lingam Road,near Kamaraj Salai, 2000 sq.ft, 3 bedroom, hall,kitchen, 1st floor, car park. Ph: 94440 14757, 09633913333.

REAL ESTATE(SELLING)

WEST MAMBALAM, Krishnamurthy Street,700 sq.st, 2 bedroom, 3rd floor flat, no lift, no carparking, 25 years old, price Rs. 22 lakhs, onlycash parties contact: 98404 97903.

RENTALWEST MAMBALAM, Ramakrishnapuram 3rd

Street, 800 sq.ft, ground floor, 2-wheeler parking,Brahmins only, brokers excuse. Ph: 99622 30608.

By RANDOR GUY

TAMIL CINEMA 75 -A LOOK BACK

THE AVM STORY - 851957 was a very successful and memorable year for Meiyappan,

and he had every reason to feel happy. Never one to rest on his oarsand laurels, he planned ahead to become one of the top film producersof India ....

1958 continued to be another hectic year for Meiyappan and AVMStudios. Pictures in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada were produced asearlier. True to his wont, Meiyappan struck a new path when hedubbed a Bengali film into Tamil.

After having created film history dubbing a filmfrom one language to another with ‘Harishchandra’ in 1943 and then‘Ram Rajya’ in 1948, his interest in dubbing had not waned. In 1958,he chose to dub just not yet another film but an important picture byone of the finest film makers of India, a creative celluloid poet DebakiBose. The film was ‘Ratna Deep’ (1951) considered an importantBengali film for many reasons beside its maker!

Debaki Kumar Bose (1898-1971) was one of the celebrated filmmakers of India who contributed much to the exalted status and statureof Bengali cinema since the 1930s. Hailing from an affluent family,he taught in a college, gave it up to join the Indian FreedomMovement, later worked a journalist and entered films in 1930 as ascreenwriter. He joined the history-making Indian movie company inCalcutta, New Theaters, and took his bow as writer-director with thehit, ‘Chandidas’ (1932). In this film, he introduced a new genre offolk myth based on the lives of saints.

Later, he made films like ‘Puran Bhakt’ (1933), ‘Meerabai’(1933), ‘Seetha’ (1934, a lyrical film about Rama and Seetha, and theRamayana hero’s anguish over the separation from his consort),‘Inquilab’ (1935), ‘Vidyapathi’ (1937), ‘Nartaki’ (1940), and ‘RatnaDeep’ (1951).

In 1961, he made a valuable documentary ‘Argya’. It was adaptedfrom Rabindranath Tagore’s poems about the caste system in Hindusociety.

Debaki Bose’s films inspired many film makers and the notedTelugu filmmaker B. N. Reddi stated that he was inspired by DebakiBose’s films, especially ‘Seeta’. The impact was so deep that he choseto give up his profession of chartered accountancy and become a filmmaker.

‘Ratna Deep’ is an interesting film with a more interesting ‘backstory’. It was based on a successful novel by Prabhat KumarMukherjee which, in turn, was inspired by the celebrated ‘BhowalSanyasi Case’. It is a ‘cause célèbre’, as lawyers say, and isconsidered as one of the most sensational and incredible cases in legalhistory.

A Raja of a small estate Bhowal in Bengal during the British IndianReign died young, and his family carried his corpse to the cemeteryand performed his cremation. Many years later, a bearded ascetic orsanyasi came to the family claiming to be the Raja! The widow andthe family members were stunned because the sanyasi bore anastonishing resemblance to the Raja. He even had the same birthmarks and moles! And he had an equally astonishing tale to tell.

He, the Raja , was not really dead but was only in deep coma whenhis body was carried for the funeral. At the cemetery when his‘corpse’ was about to be cremated, a strong storm suddenly burstforth and the family and mourners ran away leaving the ‘body’ on thepyre. The storm, blowing winds, sound and fury of thunder andlightning and pouring rain woke him up out of the coma and he wasshocked to find where he was! Suspecting family conspiracy to getat the rich estate, and feeling disgusted with human greed and perfidy,he chose not to return to the family and wandered in the Himalayas.

(To be continued)

Pavithra Utsavamin Siva-VishnuTemple

Pavithra Utsavam will be cel-ebrated till Oct. 9 in Sri Siva-Vishnu Temple, Usman Road, T.Nagar. It began on Oct. 6.

The following are details:Oct. 8: 8.30 a.m,10 a.m & 8

p.m: Pooranahuthi, Saathumaraigoshti.

Oct. 9: 10 a.m & 8 p.m:Poornahuthi, Saathumarai goshti:6 p.m: Procession; 8 p.m: Homam;9 p.m: Prasadam distribution.

All are welcome. More detailscan be had in 2434 6031.

In K. R. Temple15th Pavithra Utsavam will be

celebrated in Sri Kothandara-marswamy Temple (K. R. KoilStreet, West Mambalam) fromOct. 8 to 11.

The following is the program:Oct. 8: 7 p.m: Bhagavath prar-

thana.Oct. 9: 8.30 a.m: Alangaara

thirumanjanam;10 a.m: Thirup-avithra prathishtai; 11 a.m: Pavi-thropanam; 6.30 p.m: Rakshaba-ndhanam; 7 p.m: Procession; 8p.m: Homam; 9 p.m: Satrumarai.

Oct.10: 8.30 a.m: Alangaarathirumanjanam; 10 a.m: homam;11 a.m: Poornahuthi; 7 p.m: Pro-cession; 8 p.m: Homam; 9 p.m:prasadam distribution.

Oct. 11: 8.30 a.m: Alangaarathirumanjanam; 10 a.m: homam;11 a.m: Poornahuthi; 4 p.m: Pro-cession; 7 p.m: Homam: 8.30p.m: Maha poornahuthi.

All are welcome.

By Our Staff ReporterThis dried tree on Chari Street, T. Nagar needs to be cut down by

the Corporation.

Dried tree should be axed

Free Veda classes on SundaysBy Our Staff Reporter

Sri Sai Seva Chakra (15, Bharathi Street, West Mambalam) conductsfree Veda classes from 6.30 a.m to 7.30 a.m on Sundays in Sri KrishnaGana Sabha, Maharajapuram Santhanam Salai, T. Nagar.

Veda classes are conducted from 3.30 p.m to 4.30 p.m on Sundaysin Sai Seva Chakra’s premises.All are welcome.

More details can be had in phone 98843 05676.

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Edited & Published by K.S. Ramakrishnan. Office: 7/3, Madley Road, T. Nagar, Chennai 17. Ph: 2434 9236, 2431 39 37. Printed by Ramesh Adityan at Powerfull Printers, 74, Kannappan Street, Aminijikarai, Chennai 29.

By Our Staff ReporterMore than 150 persons at-

tended the free eye camp orga-nized by Dr. Duraiswami EyeHospital, T. Nagar and Lionsclub of Shakti on Oct. 2 as partof Gandhi Jayanthi celebra-tions.

Dr. Gayathri Sreekanth ofDr. Duraiswami Eye Hospitaltold Mambalam Times that 18persons needed to undergo cata-ract surgery which will be done

free. 21 had vision defects. Theywill be provided spectacles atcost price.

She said that patients wereasked to come the followingweek for another vision checkand cataract surgery counsel-ling.

There will be another freeeye screening camp in the hos-pital on Nov. 6, she added.

More details can be had fromDr. Gayathri in 2434 1044.

Free maths classestwice a week

Sri Sai Seva Chakra (15,Bharathi Street, West Mam-balam) conducts free math-ematics classes for Std. 9 stu-dents (State and CBSE sylla-bus) from 5 p.m to 6 p.m onMondays and Wednesdays inits premises.

By K. S. RamakrishnanIf those of you who have

never possessed an Applecomputer or an iPod or aniPhone or an iPad were be-wildered by the countlessnewspaper columns of en-comia paid to Steve Jobsafter his demise on Wednes-day and thought that hehad played no role in yourlives, you are wrong!

But for Steve Job’s earlyinvention Apple Macintosh,this newspaper MambalamTimes which you have beenreading regularly for over16 years, would not evenhave been born!

Till the advent of AppleMacintosh in 1986 - to-gether with the now-ubiqui-tous mouse, AppleLaserWriter and the soft-ware packages Mac-writeand Aldus PageMaker -anyone who wished to pub-lish a newspaper had to nec-essarily own a printingpress with a manual com-posing room. The invest-ment in such an elaborateinfrastructure would havebeen totally non-viable fora weekly tabloid newspa-per of 8 to 16 pages andthere would, therefore, havebeen no Mambalam Times!

It was Apple Macintoshthat proved to be the gamechanger! In it one could com-pose news stories, editthem, give them headlines,incorporate photographsand place them on a pageexactly like they would lookon the final printed copy. Aprint-out of the page couldthen be taken from theApple LaserWriter, whichused the technology then

Steve Jobs who made Mambalam Times possible!

known as WYSIWYG - WhatYou See Is What You Get! Thisprinted page could later be sentto a printing press, howeverfar it may be, for the replica-tion of thousands of copies ofthe newspaper for subsequentdistribution.

The IBM PC, the alternativedesktop computer of thosedays, did not have any of thesecapabilities. It had no facilityfor page make-up, and the out-put could only be from a dot-matrix printer which was unfitfor further processing for theproduction of a printed news-paper.

Giving directions to the IBM

PC, using what was known asMicrosoft Disk Operating Sys-tem (MS DOS), was quite anightmare. For example, tocopy a file from the hard driveto a floppy drive, one had totype each letter of the elabo-rate command “copy c:\docs\myfolder\filename a:\”. Forrenaming a file, the commandwas ‘ren c:\docs\myfolder\filename.old filename.new”,and for deleting a file, it was “delc:\docs\myfolder\ filename”.

The mouse that came withApple Macintosh convertedthese tasks into child’s play.Each file you created wouldbe represented by a picture

(which Steve Jobs called‘icon’) on the computerscreen and, to delete it, youhad only to point themouse’s arrow on that iconand drag it to another iconrepresenting the trash box.To copy a file from a harddrive to a floppy drive, youhad to merely drag that file’sicon from the hard drive iconto the floppy drive icon. Thisprocess, which is incorpo-rated in all computer soft-ware today, was revolution-ary in 1986, and it wasSteve Jobs who introducedthat user-friendly step andnamed it as ‘graphic inter-face’.

I was one of the earliestusers of Apple Macintoshin India, having bought onealmost as soon as it waslaunched in USA. Its speci-fications were quite rudi-mentary (Monochrome,with only 1MB RAM and20MB hard disc) with a pricethat was quite prohibitiveat 2900 US dollars! TheLaserWriter cost anotherwhopping $3200. But Ineeded the system forAmerican Education Aids,the educational institutionI was running then.

Steve Job’s guiding prin-ciple in life was ‘To think dif-ferently’ and I too adopted itwhile deciding to experimentwith the publication of aneighbourhood newspaperusing the infrastructurecreated by him.

And the rest is history!So, let me also, on behalf

of the readers of this news-paper, add my humble sa-lute to that genius SteveJobs!

Steve Jobsin 1987

Steve Jobs in 2010(afflicted with cancer)

Apple Macintosh SE (1987)

150 attend eye camp inDr. Duraiswami Hospital