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Friday, June 26, 2009
ABYTE OF LIFE
NEW ROLE
hockey star Rasquinha tradeshockey stick for CEO’s chair
FREE CIRCULATION
Vol. 3No. 119
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CROSSING BOUNDARIES
Siddharth Jayakumar is the country’sfirst certified documentary creditspecialist with cerebral palsy. AnushaParthsarathy reports about hisindomitable urge to defy the odds.
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PHOTO:S. S. KUMAR
 
ERGO
Friday, June 26, 2009
Namma Chennai
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New on the shelves
Special Editions celebrates the season with a burst of colours and styles.T-shirts with polo collar and round neck, contrasting sleeves and doublecollars, with colours like raspberry reds, burgundy, cool blues, darkpurples and the likes. Purchase t-shirts for Rs. 1000 and get a SpecialEditions gift voucher for Rs. 250. The offer is valid till June 29, at T.Nagar and Anna Nagar outlets. Ph: 4260 6061.
Cinema
Remembering Stevie Wonder
World Peace Day will be celebrated in Chennai on June 27 at theMusic Academy with singers and musicians coming together to pay atribute to Steve Wonder. The event will feature singer SunitaSarathy, Benny Dayal, Anu Cheyyur and Devan.Musicians include Keith Peters, Viji Cheyyur, Joe George, Joshua Raj,Allwyn and Mathew Littlewood. Donor passes are priced at Rs. 200and Rs. 300 and available at Exodus, all Landmark and Fruit Shopoutlets.Fore details call 9841186951/9841695177.
Music
What a spread!
The Piano at Savera Hotel has anall-new buffet to delight you. Thatis 75 cuisines from around the worldincluding kebabs, grills, sea foods,pan-Asian cuisines, pasta counters,barbeques and chaats. The buffet isopen for lunch and dinner. Yourmeal deal: Come as five and pay forthree; come as three and pay fortwo.For reservations call 2811 4700 extn1939.
Of colours& designs
The exhibition hall inAmethyst is organising asale of collection fromTarun Tahilani, SonamDubai and Sapan More.The sale is on till June30 at Amethyst, 14/30,Padmavathi Road,Jeypore Colony,Gopalpuram.
Exhibition
Never say sayonara
Pergola at Hotel AccordMetropolitan invites you for anenjoyable evening with family andfriends. The hotel is hosting aJapanese food festival, Kaeseki,open for dinner with an authenticJapanese fare.For reservations call 2816 1000.
Food
Fly to Dubai
Here’s one more reason why you must watch
Slumdog Millionaire
,this time on the small screen. You need to answer a question whichwill be asked during the movie, to win a free trip to Dubai for threedays and two nights and stay at Atlantis, The Palm. The Oscar-winning film will be screened on June 27 at 9 p.m. on PIX Englishmovie channel.Rekha’s boutiqueon Alwarpet isholding itsanniversary sale.Collections includingreadymades andfabric that is lightand colours bothpastel and cheerfulare up for sale. Theclothes areaccessorised withintricate kundan,zardori, antique andmetal work. Forthose looking forsomething to wearfor that specialevening or parties,they have intricatelydesigned andaccessoried outfits.Prices range from Rs550/- to Rs 2500/- &above.
Sale
 Where:
Rekhas Boutique, G23 mookambika complex,C P Ramasamy road, Alwarpet, Chennai -18.
 
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Friday,June26,2009
 Any weekend plan?
A group of passionate students get together to make a noise! Be at the Madras Terrace House today to watch the Trash Bandin action. Or, make it on Saturday at 6 p.m. to see the photo campaign by the students of Madras Christian College or Sundayto watch the screening of
Baraka
, a film with no dialogue, story or plot.Madras Terrace House is at 15 Sri Puram, 2nd Street, Rpyapettah. Ph: 4503 8391.
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n unclaimed bag created aflutter inside the Chennaiairport complex on early Thursday. The situation re-turned to normal after security personnel found out that thebag contained live ornamentalfish. According to police sources,some passengers spotted theabandoned bag near the bag-gage claim area of the interna-tional terminal and alerted theauthorities. A security teamrushed in and inspected thebag for any explosive sub-stances inside. Upon opening the bag, the team discovered65 live ornamental fish sealedin plastic covers inside threepolythene bags.The bag is suspected to bethat of an unidentified passen-ger who had arrived from Sin-gapore on Wednesday night.The passenger could haveabandoned the bag to avoidseizure and arrest by the Cus-toms department, policeadded.However, preliminary in-vestigations were conductedon the incident and airportauthorities sent the bag back to Singapore.
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The bag is suspected to have been abandoned by a passenger from Singapore
Bag with ornamentalfish creates flutter
 T
he practice of sending off wedding guests with a
tambulam
bag comprising betel leaf, coconut, banana and otherthings auspicious is a tradition no Hin-du household would break. But, ChennaiMayor R. Subramanian went a step ahead by turning environment-friendly at the wedding of his son Dr. Ilancherizhiyan, which was so-lemnised on Thursday at Kalaivannar Aran-gam. Around 25,000 bags of saplings were dis-tributed to the guests in the morning, and wehear another 5,000 will be handed over at thereception. About six varieties of saplings,each measuring between one and two feet,including those of neem, teak and
naval 
, wasthe Mayor’s style of sending off guests. Apparently, the Mayor had been working on this initiative for the last six months. Noprizes for guessing the message he was driv-ing through each of his guests. Make the city green!
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Ergo Correspondent 
Chennai Mayor comes upwith unique way of drivinghome the green message
Guests at Mayor M. Subramaniam’s son’s wedding receive saplings in a
tambulam
bags in Chennai on Thursday.
PHOTO: S.S. KUMAR
Sapling tambulam
File photo of an ornamentalfish seized at Chennai airport
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