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VOL: 1 ISSUE 42PRICE Re. ONE ONLYApril 05, 2009
 Putting Heart and Soul of your Neighbourhood 
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Observing that voter turnout in the polls in the countryleft much to be desired, former CEC T S Krishnamurthyon Saturday suggested that the electioncommission put in more efforts to createawareness among the electorate abouttheir democratic right."The percentage could beincreased only when the voters turn inlarge numbers and this could be done onlyif people realise that they have the right tovote," he said at the launch of a websiteaiming to help voters make an informedchoice by the Press Institute of India,Liberty Institute and Friedrich Naumann, aGerman foundation for liberal politics.Lauding the efforts of ElectionCommission for improving theconduct of elections in each time, theformer chief election commissionappealed to it to take every effort increating more voter awareness, whichcould substantially increase the pollingpercentage.Mr.Krishnamurthy said thecoming Lok Sabhaelections would be evenbetter than the previouspolls since the EC hadtaken several newmeasures forimprovement. Stressingthe need forimprovement in thecountry's electoralprocess, he suggestedthat new technologycould be introducedwhereever it wasrequired. He urgedmedia to provide somespace for the EC'scampaign to createawareness among theelectorate. Speaking onthe occasion, Tamil NaduChief Electrol OfficerNaresh Gupta saidefforts should be takenfor an error-free voters'list.
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Don’t oblige others, especially at the cost ofyour interests. It will be ideal if you execute your agendain a more risk-free manner.
For the week
April 05- April 11, 2009
A sensitive phase for emotional Taureans. Theywill remain confused and face some unfair criticism. Takesuch challenges in your stride don’t lose your cool.You will relax as your financial obligationsdecline. You are not immune from ups and downs of life.Wednesday happens to be your restless day.An exalted Moon will bring joy and merriment.Helping a needy friend is on your agenda during thisweek.Your dominant stars will earn you the reputationof a social butterfly. You need more time to cement abond between two hearts.An unexpected change for the better should beon the way. You could cash in on an opportunity you havebeen waiting for since long.With Venus on the back track, anunprecedented upswing in your routine expenditure. Youmay not overcome this crisis. Tighten your purse stringsand feel easy. Friday is your most expensive day.The work could pile up in leaps and bounds.Your speed could slow, if you take new obligations.You are in happy mood. You have done welland could do still better. But be fully in control of all facts.Both Virgoans and Librans are sincere friends.Don’t belittle them or under rate them. However, avoidCancerians or Scorpions.
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Creative Aquarians should be in their element.Their freshness of thought, excellence will come to thefore. But remain tension-free.A debility-prone Jupiter makes you dependenton others. Don’t be guilty if you spend on luxuries butcurb the urge to squander on Thursday.
- Dr. Anuj Vikram Sharma 
Saibaba wanted to belong to all and beshared by all. He apparently found himself at ease inthis paradoxical situation. When pressed on whetherhe was Hindu or Muslim, he would often get very angryand abuse people. Once he told a devotee:" You havebeen with me for eighteen years now. Does Sai meanfor you only thesethree and a halfcubits of height?Certainly,Saibaba neverencouraged hisown worship,though in the lastyears he gave upresistance andaccepted the cultwhich the Hindustribute to him,often in a quiteostentatious form.Saibaba was ableto avoid clashesbetween twocommunities andsucceeded inunifying them inan atmosphere ofgeneral harmony. At this early period, Hindu worship ofBaba was purely individual. A devotee would bringflowers, bow to him, and ask for a blessing and leave.Mhalsapati was apparently the only one who honoredhim with a sandal paste puja.Baba would often talk about Hindu gods,quoting from sacred texts and commenting uponpassages of Bhagavad Gita, the Isha Upanishad andso forth. The names of Krishna and Rama seem to havebeen particularly dear to him. With Muslim followers,Baba would always talk of Allah and Quran, oftenquoting Persian verses. Apparently one of his favoriteexpressions were" Allah rakhega vaisa rahena", that is,Let us be content with what we have and submit our willto Allah. On several occasions, Sai reassured hislisteners by saying that he, like them, was but a devoteeof Allah, a humble faqir with two arms and two legs.In later years, Parsis and even a fewChristians would come to Shirdi. Saibaba respected allcreeds, true to his conviction that all religions are butparticular paths leading to one ineffable goal. All hadfree access to the Masjid: outcasters, lepers, dogs,birds and so on. Baba particularly enjoyed thecompany of untouchables and the ill. One BhagojiShinde, a leper, came to be one of Sai's closestdevotees. This was the reason why the Masjid came tobe known by the Hindu name of Dwarakamai, themany-gated mother. From the young faqir, most askedfor blessings of a material kind, progeny, jobs, curesfrom illness etc. very few requested spiritual guidance.
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The decks have been cleared for the entry of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi’s elder son Azhagiri into Parliament. The decision of the party to field him for the Madurai Lok Sabha seat is a clear attempt not only to catapult him to the role of party pointsman in New Delhi but also to ensure that the eventual passing of the chief ministerial mantle to Mr Karunanidhi’s younger son Stalin goes unchallenged.Mr Azhagiri is a power to reckon with in south Tamil Nadu and has in the past not hesitated to remonstrate with his father against favoured treatment to Mr Stalin.By sending him away to the Centre and promising him a key role there, Mr Karunanidhi is hopeful that there would be no succession battle in Chennai.It has indeed been a while since DMK politics began revolving around Karunanidhi 's family. The way things are, it would seem that it is sacrilege for anyone outside the patriarch’s family circle to aspire for the chief ministerial office or for a key role as pointsman for the party in Delhi. The irrepressible MDMK leader Vaiko was at one time in the DMK and was seen by many as a rising star in DMK politics. It is no secret that he was  jettisoned because he was perceived as a threat to Stalin’s ambitions. After the last Lok Sabha elections, Mr Karunanidhi’s grandnephew, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, took on the role of pointsman in Delhi but when a newspaper published by his brother carried a survey showing Mr Azhagiri in poor light, he was sent packing and only recently rehabilitated when the latter condescended.With the Lok Sabha elections round the corner,Mr Karunanidhi indeed has much else to worry about.The recent PMK decision to leave the DMK fold and move over to Ms Jayalalithaa’s AIADMK combined with the anti-incumbency factor may give the DMK a rough time. It is time Mr Karunanidhi shed his family obsession and put governance above all else if he is to have any chance of beating the AIADMK.
He belonged to All!It’s all in the family
The 89thJayanthi celebrations ofSathguru ShrimathSanthananda Swamigalwill be celebrated at theChennai Om SriSkandasramam.On April 12thbeing Vishakam the birthstar of Sathguru ShrimathSanthananda Swamigal,Sri Matha BhuvaneswariMula manthra SamputithaChandi MangalaMahayagnam will beconducted. The day startswith the go puja at 7. 15 amfollowed byGuruvandanam at 8 am. At8. 30 am there will be theHoma and 27 nakshatraSankalpam, followed byGanapathy Homam,Navagraha Homam andAavahandi homam at 9.30 am. At 10 the SriBhuvaneswari MulaManthraSamputithaChandi MangalaMahayagnambegins followedby annadanam at12.30 noon. At 4PM the Homamcontinuesfollowed by theMaha Purnahudhiat 7. 30 Pm. AT 8pm abhishekam toSri Chakra PurnaMaha Merufollowed bydeeparadanai andprasaddistribution.Being SundayApril 12th there will beRagu Kala specialabhishekam to LordVeera Sarabesararbetween 4. 30 and 6 PMFor participationand other details call theChennai Om SriSkandasramam,1Kambar ST,Mahalakshmi Nagar,Selaiyur, Tambaram, Ch -73, ph - 22290134 / 94446 29570, website -www.skandasramam.com.
Sathguru Shrimath SanthanandaSwamigal Jayanthi
Thekumbabishekam of SriVarasiddhi VinayakaPanchamuga AnjaneyarTemple of SriPanchamuga AnjaneyarTrust, Palaniappa Nagar,Gowrivakkam, will beperformed on April 8,between 8.30 a.m. and10.30 a.m.Devotees arerequested to contribute incash or kind for thekumbabishekam.DDs and cheques maybe made in favour of SriPanchamuga AnjaneyarKumbabishekam a/c.For furtherdetails call: 94453 11891;94440 42055 or log on to:www.panchamugaanjaneyar.com
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A month longRamanavami celebrationsgot underway last week atthe Mambalam based SriRam Samaj.On April 3Ramanavami wascelebrated with religiousfervour. In the morningspecial poojas coincidedwith the moola parayanamby Brahmasri T RRajarama Iyer comp-letingthe Yuddha Kandam andthereafter the RamarPattabhishekam. In theevening BrahmasriNannilam RajagopalaGanapadigal and his teamof vedic pundits chantedthe Ganaparayanam of SriKrishna Yajur Vedam.Being the ninth and the lastday of the parayanam, theGanaparayanam drew alarge attendance.The recitation ofGanam wove a magicspell on the devoteespresent who listened theveda gosham with raptattention.Speaking on theoccasion NannilamRajagopalaGanapadigal, heapedpraises on Sri RamSamaj managementand added thatMambalamwasisproved that they arerasikas of not onlycarnatic music butalso to Veda Goshamand that is clear withthe huge gathering atthis celebration. Healso said that the SriRam Samajmanagement shouldcontinue Sri KrishnaYajurvedaGanaparayanamevery year.Later RamarPattabhishekamreligious discourse byBrahmasri MannargudiGoapalakrishnaSastrigal broughtAyodhya to the fore.The portrait of Lord SriRama was taken inprocession after thePattabishekam.SeethaKalyanam under theBhajan Sampradhayamwould be held on April 5at 9.00 am by UdayalurKalyanaramaBhagavathar and party.
Ramanavami celebratedwith religious fervour
To complainagainst violations of themodel code of conductset for the Lok Sabhapolls, the district electionoffice has released thecontact numbers ofreturning officers andassistant returningofficers in each assemblysegment. Returningofficer (Chennai north)Mythili Rajendran can bereached at the toll-freehelpline-1077, Returningofficer (Chennai central)Rajesh Lakhoni at25383732 and Returningofficer (Chennai south) MBalaji at 25383693. Thedistrict election office inRipon Buildings can becontacted at25383695/25619344.The contactnumbers of AssistantReturning Officers are asfollows:Thousand Lights9381515243;VirugambakkamThe railwayswill run weekly specialtrains between Chennaiand Bangalore city toclear the rush during thesummer.Chennai-Bangalore City WeeklyExpress Special (0635)will depart Chennai onSundays at 11.30 pm(from April 12) and arriveat Bangalore at 7.30 am,the next day.En route, thetrain will touchArakkonam (at 12.28am), Katpadi (1.23 am),Jolarpettai (2.40 am),Bangarpet (5.08 am),Whitefield (6.08 am),Krishnarajapuram (6.20am) and BangaloreCantonment (6.40 am).The last service fromChennai is on June 28.In the returndirection, BangaloreCity-Chennai WeeklyExpress Special (0636)will depart Bangalore onMondays at 11 pm (fromApril 13) and arrive atChennai at 5.15 am, thenext day.En route, thetrain will touch BangaloreCantonment (at 11.10pm), Krishnarajapuram(11.24 pm), Whitefield(11.34 pm), Bangarpet(12.13 am), Jolarpettai(1.30 am), Katpadi (2.43am), Arakkonam (3.43am) and Perumbur (4.33am). The last servicefrom Bangalore is onJune 29.The train has 18coaches in all,comprising one AC two-tier coach, three ACthree-tier coaches, 10second-class sleepers,two general second-class coaches and twosecond-class luggage-cum-brake vans.
Special trains betweenBangalore and Chennai
AlwarpetBenefit Fund willdespatch cheques tosavings, recurring andfixed deposit accountholders from April 9.In a pressrelease, A. Raman,Commissioner appointedby Madras High Court,said they would beissuing cheques towards9th instalment of 5 percent of the principalamount, subject to aminimum of Rs.1,000. Withthis, the total repayment todepositors will be aroundRs.58 crore. The chequesdrawn on ICICI Bank,Alwarpet branch, will bedelivered through courier inbatches as per themembership number ofdepositors. Depositors arerequested not to visit theoffice since the chequeswill not be handed over inperson, he said.
ABF cheques to be sentto account holders
Chakra Vinayagar Temple
Sri Ramanavami Mahotsavam is beingcelebrated in Arulmigu Chakra Vinayar Temple, 2, SouthDhandapani Street, T.Nagar.The following is the schedule for concerts (allbegin at 6.30 pm):April 4: Vidya Kalyanaraman (vocal), April 6 : VasudhaRavi (vocal), April 7 : Veena concert byG.R. S. Moorthy,April 8 : Dual violin concert by Melakaveri Thyagarajanand Villivakkam Raghuraman. April 9: Mohan Sathanam(vocal). April 10: Flute concert by J.B. Sruthisagar.April 11: Gayathri Devi (vocal).There will be a discourse on Ramayanam byM.K. Srinivasan at 6.30 pm on April 5.Seetharama Samrajya pattabhishekam will beat 7 am on April 11 followed by Ekdhina lakshaarchanai.All are welcome.
Sri Srinivasamurthy Mandiram
Sri Srinivasamurthy Mandiram 56, Ellaimmankoil Street, West Mambalam is celebrating its 26thannual Sri Rama Navami Mahotsavam from April 4 to 14.U.Ve.K.B. Devarajan Swamigal will givediscourses on Srimad Ramayanam at 7 pm daily till April7.Bombay sisters C. Saroja and C. Lalitha willpresent a vocal concert at 7 pm on April 8. They will beaccompanised by Ananthapadmanabhan on violin,Madipakkam suresh on mridangam and Narasimhan onghatam. There will be a bharathanatyam program at 7pm on April 9. All are welcome.
Shiridi Sai Temple
Shri Shiridi Sai Seva Samaj 9, JaishankarStreet, West Mambalam will have Sai BabaLaksharchana on Sunday, April 12. Those who want to join Laksharchana can register their names. 1st Batch:8.00 & 9.00 am, 2nd Batch: 9.15 & 10.15 am. 3rd Batch :10.30 & 11.30 am, 4th Batch: 3.30 & 4.30 pm, 5th Batch:4.45 & 5.45 pm, 6th Batch: 6.30 & 7.30 pm. All arewelcome.
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