TH Down Town Adyr DC 12-6-2022

Sunday, June 12, 2022
● Adyar ● Kanathur ● Kelambakkam ● Navalur ● Semmencherry ● Thoraipakkam ● Velachery

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IIT Madras ●
Kandanchavadi ●
Kottivakkam ●
Neelankarai ●
Sholinganallur ●
Thiruvanmiyur ●
Vijaya Nagar
● Indira Nagar ● Karapakkam ● Kotturpuram ● Padur ● Thalambur ● Pallikaranai
Car Free Sunday is back at Elliots Beach INSIDE

Kapaleeswarar Nagar
“NammaChennaiClean”.
The exercise is tied to The aim of this edition of the
RWA bags Green
Champion Award
waste-management awareness; and a Car Free Sunday is to create be-
havioural change in people and
plan to have more city spaces included thereby transform Chennai into
in the initiative is on the drawing board an environment-friendly city,
says a press release.
Hari Balaji, head of the infor-
C
ar Free Sunday, an in-
itiative to promote mation, communication and
non-motorised forms education department, Urbaser
of transport on a stretch in Sumeet, notes there is a plan to
the metro, is back with a new take this initiative to other Having sustained its greening
focus, a new partner, but stretches in the metro. efforts over ten years, the
with reduced duration. He adds: “A stretch of Mari- Association from Neelankarai
Waste management com- na Beach, Mylapore and stood out in a contest
pany Urbaser Sumeet, in as- stretches in Zone 15 are among organised by Tamil Nadu
sociation with Greater Chen- those under consideration.” Pollution Control Board. P2
nai Corporation, will host its File photo of a Car-Free
first Car Free Sunday on a Sunday at Elliots Beach.
stretch of Elliots Beach Road
on June 12 from 6 a.m. to 9 waste can be dropped. activities to engage the crowd,
a.m. and the event would be Resident Welfare Associa- yoga, carom, chess and hop-
woven around the three R’s – tions that have an exemplary scotch being some of them.
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. record in waste management Members of the public who are
To encourage people to re- and NGOs working in the area already segregating waste at
duce the amount of waste will be setting up stalls on the source, will be encouraged to
being sent to the landfill, the stretch of the road. click a selfie and share the im-
venue will have a special col- The stretch, which will be age with Urbaser Sumeet
lection drive where old cordoned off for motorised which will be sharing it in social
clothes, PET bottles and e- vehicles, will have a number of media with the hashtag
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2 COMMUNITY CHENNAI
SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 2022

DOWNTOWN
Kapaleeswarar Nagar residents welfare

association bags Green Champion Award
Images of how the
Association made it to a
Having sustained its greening prestigious podium on June
efforts over ten years, the 5.
PHOTOS: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Association from Neelankarai stood Forest Department.
out in a contest organised by Tamil A resident notes that
given the unstinted
Nadu Pollution Control Board dedication with which the
Association has been raising
S B SUBASREE iniatiate other trees, this honour is truly
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neighbourhoodfriendly deserved. The Association
T
ree plantation efforts projects. It is among the most has thought out of the ‘tank’
over the years have active residents’ associations to maintain the green cover:
borne fruit for in South Chennai. Timely water supply to the
Kapaleeswarar Nagar Association secretary Rohit plants is ensured through a
Residents Welfare Association, Menon attributes the Sintex tank carted around in
Neelankarai. The Association recognition to efforts put in by a tricycle. While receiving
has received the Green residents over the past ten the award, Ragupathy gave a
Champion Award in a contest years. The Association settled petition to the Minister
conducted by the Tamil Nadu on those indigenous trees seeking that 30,000 sq.m of
Pollution Control Board to known for resilience against abandoned land south of
observe this World cyclones and floods, whose Neelankarai beach be
Environment Day. The award occurrences on the Chennai recovered and developed as
has been bestowed upon six coast during the NE monsoon an expanded section of the
other groups andindividuals have increased in frequency. beach.
in Chennai district. “We try to involve the AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Kapaleeswarar Nagar residents as much as possible The Association
Residents Welfare Association to try creating ownership of
is the only RWA in this the trees,” says Rohit. A case settled on those
coveted list. in point: Ironmesh tree indigenous trees that
J Ragupathy, representing guards handcrafted by are known for their
the Association, received the Kapaleeswarar Nagar
award from Siva V residents have also been
resilience against
Meyyanathan, Environment placed around the plants. cyclones and floods
and Climate Change Minister. Having a retired Indian Forest
The award brings to Officer – Hussain — as one of
Association a prize money of the residents proved
₹1 lakh, and more advantageous as he helped in
significantly, the motivation to procuring saplings from the
ENVIRONMENT DAY CELEBRATION
Saplings planted AGS Colony RWA creates

S aplings were planted by
members of Green
Velachery to observe World
awareness on waste segregation
n commemoration of
Environment Day. Green
Velachery is a forum that I World Environment
Day, AGS Colony
aims to improve the green
cover in Velachery. Residents Welfare
The saplings have been Association joined hands
planted in the median with Urbaser Sumeet
below the flyover on Facilities Limited to
VelacheryTaramani Road. distribute pamphlets on
S Kumararaja, a key the importance of
member of Green segregating waste at
Velachery, says source.
“Arrangements have been Besides, residents also
Volunteers of Green Velachery. PHOTO: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT took a pledge that public
made to water these
saplings every day. This Velachery. Ward 177 drive. The forum is engaged spaces will be
exercise is also supported Councillor P Manimaran in this exercise for the past maintained well and will
by Rotary Club of Chennai inaugurated the planing two years.” not littered. During the awareness drive. PHOTO: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
DOWNTOWN
CHENNAI
STATUS REPORT 3
SWD work under way in AGS Colony

Residents believe they will be spared flooding this rainy season as an exercise to connect the
missing links in the stormwater drain network is in full swing
L KANTHIMATHI used to remain stagnant. In
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2020, a permanent motor
R
ains would be a pump was installed by GCC
nightmare for as the locality was prone to
residents of AGS flooding. However, it was
Colony in Velachery West. put to optimum use only
The colony would remain during the last monsoon. It
waterlogged for over two certainly made a difference
days if there were heavy because water was pumped
rains. Instances of water out within six hours. Usually
entering houses and forcing it will take a couple of days
residents to find temporary for water to recede. We
shelter elsewhere were thank the Corporation for
common. Residents believe this. But the pumpedout
all that is set to change, and water was drained into
they will be spared flooding some other drain which will
this rainy season as a major again remain stagnant there
stormwater drain work, as the SWD network in our
aimed at connecting the colony is not
missing links and interconnected.
correcting the course of the It has to drain into the
drains, is underway at AGS Veerangal Odai rainwater
Colony and surrounding canal. But that was not
localities. The work began happening. The stagnant
last month, following a water provided a fertile
series of representations ground for the breeding of
from the AGS Colony mosquitoes. These flaws
Residents Welfare Stomwater drain work on AGS Colony Third Main Road in were identified by our
Association to the Greater Velachery West and (right) the same road following the rains in Association and brought to
Chennai Corporation December 2021. PHOTOS: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT the Corporation’s notice. We
(GCC). are happy that the Zone 13
“AGS Colony is a flooding. Stormwater water. In spite of the During last year’s monsoon, Corporation carried out an Office of GCC has honoured
lowlying area. Hence drains were constructed in presence of the drains, our members and officebearers exercise to locate the spots our request and taken up
rainwater from AGS Colony nearly 10 years colony used to get flooded,” of the Association along where drains were not the stormwater drain work,”
surrounding localities flows ago. But, they were not says R. Kanagaraj, with Zone 13 officials of the connected. “As the drains says Geetha Ganesh,
into the colony and causes wide enough to take in the Association president. Greater Chennai were not connected, water secretary of the Association.
READERS WRITE
‘Operate a few MTC services from Injambakkam’

S.S. GOMATHINAYAGAM to Egmore railway station, and Injambakkam have to go to
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Central railway station; the Thiruvanmiyur bus terminus
etropolitan Transport Meenambakkam airport; and and take another bus.
M Corporation should set
up a small station in
the bus terminus in
Koyambedu.
SS Gomathinayagam is the
secretary of Federation of
Injambakkam on East Coast In the absence of direct bus Neelankarai Residents Welfare
Road and operate a few bus services to the aforementioned Associations
services from there, especially places, residents of Neelankarai
You can be our

‘MTC has withdrawn a volunteer-writer
good number of its
D
ear readers, you can be our
services from Vijayanagar’ volunteerwriter by writing

to us about issues and events
in your neighbourhood. You should
S. KUMARAJA Railway Station. Besides, there was send the writeups to downtown
another service to Chenglepet from
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feedback@ thehindu.co.in. Here’s a
A good number of bus services op Vijayanagar. That service has also short note on the basic building
erated by the Metropolitan Tran been stopped without any prior an blocks of any news feature.
sport Corporation from Vijayanagar nouncement. a) The lead is the first section of
terminus in Velachery have been At present, only three services an article, and leads that narrate a
withdrawn in the past few years. are operated from this terminus 51 human situation work the best.
Some of the services 23V (to Aya (to Tambaram), D70 (to Ambattur) b) The next element is the cosmic
navaram), 29N (to Periyar Nagar via and 568 (to Thiruporur). The fre paragraph, in which you give the ov
Perambur), 29L (to Broadway); 54L quency of 568 is poor, with just one erall picture.
Cut (Namum via Poonamallee), and service every two hours. c) The articles have to be factually
1G Cut (to Thiruvottriyur) have been S. Kumararaja is the wellgrounded and the central por
withdrawn. The 1G Cut service pro president of Annai Indira tion, which will consist of a few pa
vided access to Puratchi Thalaivar Nagar Residents Welfare ragraphs, should support the anec
Dr. M.G. Ramachandran Central Association in Velachery
dotal paragraph and the cosmic
paragraph.
4 ENVIRONMENT CHENNAI

DOWNTOWN
File photo of a Miyawaki forest at Indra Nagar.
Want to extend a ‘green’ helping hand

to the Forest Department’s Chennai division?
To meet a burgeoning demand for saplings, it is seeking tie-ups with various stakeholders to raise new nurseries
PRINCE FREDERICK ni Venkataraman, District which includes seed money share the location of their mand for saplings comes use of resources — both the
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Forest Officer (DFO), Chen of ₹12.9 lakh that was ex nursery, the extent of the from various quarters, and planting area and the sa
T
hough a familiar sce nai Division. tended to it as part of GTM,” area, list of plant species, in there are mechanisms to as plings — requests for sa
nario in cricket, it is Meeting the target should says Priyadarshini. cluding medicinal plants, sess the quantum of overall plings are studied carefully
certain to bring be easy, but not the de Though all three nurser being raised in their nursery demand. before being granted.
chewed nails to a match ev mand, that is, if one factors ies up and running now, the and other relevant details to “It comes from environ “If anyone has identified a
ery time it crops up. Chasing in the inherent challenges. 10lakh figure is still as dis the Forest Department so ment NGOs and individual vacant land for tree planta
the target successfully, one With just three Forest De tant as Erandel. that it can tie up with them tree planters. Last week, we tion and the matter has been
can still come short of the partment nurseries — in On the positive side, the and share information to pe gave 1,000 seedlings to tah communicated to the DFO,
desired outcome and end up Nanmangalam, Anna Nagar, Chennai division seems ople approaching it for see sildars. Tahsildars are plant we assess its holding capaci
with a crown of thorns. It is and Karasangal keen on mustering outside dlings,” says Priyadharshini. ing trees on their campuses. ty by sending our staff:
the net run rate that mat catering to Chennai and resources and going after Women selfhelp groups GCC runs plantation drives. range officer or forester.
ters, and is the key to the surrounding areas, the divi that steep asking rate. would be taught how to run There are then requests in There would have been a re
next level, the playoffs. sion does not “bat deep”. “Additional PCCF and nurseries and brought on Mudavarin Mugavari and I quest for, say, 100 saplings,
Chennai is in a situation In fact, until five months Mission Director, Deepak board. It would help these get to process these re but the land might be able to
that somewhat mirrors this ago, this threepronged Srivastava suggested the SHGs, and the government quests. There is the district hold more trees or fewer,
cricketing scenario. green machine was not fir idea of roping in all stake is keen on helping them. green committee where the and the request is honoured
“This year’s treeplanting ing on all cylinders with the holders to meet GTM goals. We have approached col collector is the chairman based on this assessment.
target for Chennai under Karasangal unit still having We are planning to rope in leges and schools as they and the DFO, the member Even as the request comes
Green Tamil Nadu Misison to be cranked up and coaxed nurseries with the agricul have their nurseryraising secretary. Line departments in, it is taken as a demand
(GTM) is 1.5 lakh trees, but out of an extended slumber. ture department and those programmes. We would also are also present in the com and uploaded in the GTM
the demand from various “The one at Karasangal with the horticulture de be seeking to make common mittee as members. A few website. Every DFO in every
stakeholders keen on carry nursery was not functioning partment. There is also a cause with NGOs, RWAs and NGOs are also included in district has been provided
ing out greening exercises in for the last eight years and move to identify private nur individuals,” says Priyadar the committee. Requests are with a user ID and a pass
the city is about 10 lakh sa the nursery has now been series and engineer tieups. shini. made known to the commit word, which is shared with
plings,” reveals Priyadarshi resurrected with funding, Private nursery owners can The DFO explains that de tee,” she says. For optimal the district collector.”
‘District green committee also Volunteering group to care for

looks into tree-felling issues’ saplings being formed
The district green committee fo ing of trees is brought to the not ration, the matter duly comes to
cusses not only on introducing ice of this committee. If someone our notice. In government land, While raising saplings to meet the individuals, RWAs, schools and
new trees, but also on protecting has requested the forest depart we try not to fell any trees, and al demand is the most evident part colleges and NGOs, among
the existing ones. ment to allow them to fell a tree low felling only after all avenues of the challenge, the one that others, who would care for these
Priyadarshini Venkataraman, and has offered specific reasons for saving the tree are closed and bobs unseen under the water is saplings, monitoring, protecting
district forest officer, for the action, we assess if the fell the act cannot be sidestepped. the need for volunteers to care for and nurturing them. This
Chennai Division, on how the ing is indeed required. NGOs in While assessing whether a tree the planted saplings. volunteering group would be
committee functions as genius lo- form the committee about cases has to be felled on a road, other Priyadarshini Venkataraman, structured along the lines of the
ci for trees that have an uneasy of illegal felling of trees. If any re line departments that have their district forest officer, Wetland Mitras, which has
axe hovering over them: quest for tree felling is placed infrastructure on the road are Chennai Division, says, “We are residents watching out for the
“Information about illegal fell with the Greater Chennai Corpo brought into the picture.” looking for volunteers among wetlands in their midst.”
CHAD _ A
DOWNTOWN
CHENNAI
PEOPLE 5
KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOUR
Stopping by and shaking paws with strangers
This Perungudi resident indefatigably scours the neighbourhood for stray
dogs that may be in desperate need of a morsel
SB SUBASREE
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T
he sight of dogs
wolfing down food
has an almost
therapeutic effect on Priya
Ganesh, particularly
refreshing her after a day
at work.
She in fact engineers
gorgings of this nature
every day.
After returning from her
workplace, which is the
Cancer Institute, she steps
out of her home around 7
p.m., with buckets of rice
and chunky chicken legs.
At that exact hour, on a
street behind World Trade AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Center, Perungudi, a pack How ironic that we call spends for canines twowheeler with a bucket
of expectant strays would outrunning her income. of chicken liver and rice
be in attendance.
them street dogs, yet Priya is grateful for a soup. He and his wife
The meeting between shoo them away from family that supports her Chithrakala have also
benefactor and The food trail every street! unstintingly in the cause. registered themselves with
beneficiaries would be She also has likeminded the Greater Chennai
predictably marked by strays. After the feeding the beneficiaries have now them street dogs, yet shoo friends to thank for: They Corporation to feed street
friendly barking and behind WTC, 57yearold swelled to 120. them away from every provide help in cash and dogs.
tailwagging. Priya scours the locality Priya has the strays she street!” sighs Priya. kind for Priya to sustain Kamala, a resident of
At fivethirty in the and sometimes beyond, feeds neutered and Fortunately for her, the the feeding. Thoraipakkam, does
morning, she offers until 10 p.m., for strays annually vaccinated police and the Corporation There are a few others everything in her will to
branded dog food along that may be in desperate against rabies. are sympathetic to her around the region that are sterilise as many street
with biscuits to around 30 need of a morsel. The fact Priya has not been cause, and even eager to committed just the way dogs as she can. Her aim,
dogs. This ritual stretches that she footslogs around spared the fate that dog help her out of tight Priya is to ensuring “no she says, is to achieve 100
on for an hour before she the locality speaks lovers of her stripes are situations. stray goes to sleep with a percent sterilisation of
leaves for work. Out of this volumes for her beset with: Criticism from With restaurants rumbling stomach”. dogs in and around her
thirty, nine dogs are those commitment to seeing some residents, which reluctant to have tieups At 10 p.m. on Shakthi street.
she had rescued. strays provided for. sometimes is stretched all with her and the cost of Srinivasan Road, the pitiful With such people
This Perungudi resident When she started this the way to a police food spiralling all the time, eyes of about ten canines around her, Priya does not
clocks more hours in the service in 2012, Priya had complaint. Priya is always light on seeing George feel alone in her voluntary
evening, in the service of 20 canines to care for, and “How ironic that we call overreaching herself, her Fernandez rolling in on a work.
Celebrating the spirit of cancer survivors
Patients and caregivers meet to share what it meant to battle the illness during the pandemic
No exam is too tough for this brave heart
M
ore than 100 cancer disease, render services and sponsor
survivors including medical treatment and therapies for
children took part in the needy. For most part of his six-year pharma course, exam just three days after a session of
‘Conquer 2022’, an annual event “We usually have our annual R Karthik was undergoing treatment for cancer chemotherapy, Karthik was feeling terribly
organised in Chennai by Freedom events at malls to be able to create unwell. The doctor suggested he get him-
from Cancer Relief and Research awareness about the need for early LIFFY THOMAS chance of survival. “My parents were told self admitted. “I was determined that I
Foundation (FFC) to recognise diagnosis,” says Dr Anita.
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that I will live for only a couple of months want to go ahead with exam, and so I
I
people who have undergone “When we have survivors sharing n a week’s time, 23-year-old R Karthik as more than 90% of my cells were imma- postponed getting admitted and gave the
treatment while being up against During the meet held on their stories, shoppers also take will complete a six-year course, and ture in this condition,” says Karthik. exam,” he says.
various other odds. Cancer Survivors Day note,” she says, noting that Forum that would make him a doctor of phar- Karthik says that his first reaction to Karthik notes there were many other
The event had a generous Mall and Chennai Citi Centre have macy. That is no small feat for someone this was, strangely, a laugh. “I had heard odds to deal with: One of them is the huge
sprinkling of music, dance and the Foundation and senior been among the venues in the past. who spent the last four years shuttling and read a lot about cancer patients and medical bill that his parents had to foot.
experience-sharing sessions by consultant in medical oncology, said In the previous years, the event between home and hospitals. He was un- their struggles but the realisation that I “Dr Anitha who heads oncology at Sa-
survivors, their friends, family the Trust was started in 2010 and also saw survivors walk the ramp, dergoing intensive chemotherapy after a was among them only hit me later,” he veetha Medical College Hospital was a big
members and medical registered in 2015 and since then play musical instruments and diagnosis of the cancer of the bone mar- says. support, always encouraging me and con-
professionals. they have reached out to nearly showcase their many talents. row. But he was not going to let cancer rule necting me with other survivors,” he says.
The meet was scheduled to 1000 survivors. Dr. Anita said that when someone In 2018, in his second year at college, his life. Apart from the classes that kept him
coincide with National Cancer “A majority of them are my feels their body is undergoing when Karthik was going to appear for a Family and friends close to him sug- occupied, listening to music helped him
Survivors Day, which falls on the patients and we have been physical uneasiness, they should go pharmacology exam, his eyes showed ab- gested he discontinue the course but Kar- immensely, he says.
first Sunday of June. engaging with them through social for cancer screening, which is normal colouring and itching. thik would not countenance the idea. Karthik says he has cleared all his pap-
Stories of delayed check-ups, media and WhatsApp,” says Dr important for the early detection of He initially dismissed it after showing “From the very beginning, I was clear ers so far without any arrears.
postponed surgeries and how Anita, who heads medical oncology cancer. Ezhilan Naganathan, MLA it to a doctor not knowing that they were that I will carry on somehow and I am “My will power helped me sail through
lockdown restrictions sometimes at Saveetha Medical College and Tamil Nadu Health Secretary Dr. early signs of cancer. Later, diagnosis grateful that I could somehow manage; these years of treatment and the support I
interfered with treatment were Hospital. J Radhakrishnan were among the showed that he had Acute Lymphoblastic the online classes conducted due to the got from people around me was also a
shared. The Trust was established to special guests at the event. Leukemia. pandemic turned out to be a big help,” he huge help,” says Karthik.
Professor Dr Anita Ramesh, help and inspire cancer survivors, For more details, visit At a private hospital that Karthik was says. Karthik is planning to find a job in
founder and managing trustee of spread awareness about the www.freedomfromcancer.co.in first admitted in, the doctor gave him little Once, Karthik had to appear for a mid- Chennai.
6 ENTERPRISE CHENNAI

DOWNTOWN
The platter of breads includes Ko IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SMALL BUSINESSES
The bread of life rean buns, sweet potato bread, tomato

basil bread and pumpkin bread.
Crowd favourites include wholewheat
“Bread is among the most underrat bread and confections like rose milk
A sudden bereavement ed products in the bakery business,” tres leches and rasa malai tres leches.
turns this Pallikaranai states Seema, noting that her breads Seema says orders placed a day
reconcile the craving for taste with in advance are delivered straight
resident’s life upside-down, the necessity of healthyeating. from the oven, spankingfresh
and then an adventitious A mompreneur, Seema cannot and preservativefree.
stray far from her moorings, and Seema believes there is still a
introduction to baking the kitchen at home accommo long way to go before peo
helps her find emotional dates breadmaking. However, ple start taking to healthy
to achieve scale, Seema has es bread alternatives that
and financial sustenance tablished a small kitchen in are slightly more ex
Pallikaranai, not too far from pensive than store
S
eema Jude accidentally found baking her hearth. bought bread, which
and before long, discovered a natural is why she will be
aptitude for the activity and also for soon launching her
marketing what emerged out of it. A sudden own online and of
bereavement in the family causing her to fline breadmak
take a lengthy break from her career in ing classes to
banking, a comfort activity was inevitably help promote
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silience. Jai Ganesh, a Pal
road leads to a Adding ‘old pages’
freelance cosmetologist likaranai resident, bounced
was a skincare-makeup back from the setback, esta
blishing a cloud kitchen —
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connoisseur long before Pemi’s Kitchen — in his
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reading among children through an
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labouring shoulderto
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Nithya runs the enter
prise with a small ware
house in Pallavaram and a
stereotype of women not Adyar resident underlines her efforts to make her cakes, tarts any difficulty selling the battery of six assistants who
being able to work after hav books his son had outgrown. attend to customer sup
ing kids,” says Chennai and pies as easy on the human system as possible What started off as a ma port, procurement, logis
based Rehana. offerings. Jumana notes that right ma’s effort to keep her child tics and delivery.
W
ith considerable time
Rehana notes that her sig from granola bars, tea cakes and off gadgets and gather useful “There is so much that a
on her hands during her
nature facials and willing cookies to tarts, pies, and knowledge outside the class child can pick up from a
maternity leave, Juma
ness to share skincare tips birthday cakes, she strives to room has culminated in Kiddi simple picture or story
na Huzefa invested a generous
have ensured her a steady provide healthy variants that winks, a store that supplies se book. It is definitely so
part of it in a homebaking busi
clientele. Currently, she off everyone can enjoy without condhand children’s books at mething that parents and
ness. From the word go, the
ers makeup, skincare, hair guilt. While her cakes and the customer’s doorsteps. schools should look into,”
Adyar resident has been offering
styling, and saridraping ser confections can be custom They are priced from ₹20 says Nithya. Kiddiwinks has
glutenfree bakes, particularly
vices for weddings, parties, ordered anywhere in Chen to ₹1200 at nearly onefourth also launched its own inte
marked by the generous use of al
photoshoots, betrothals, nai, her granola bars are avail the price of new books, says ractive line of learning re
mond flour and amaranth flour. Be
and baby showers all over able for shipping all over India. Nithya, a Pallikaranai resi sources for children. Their
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sides the two, a variety of millet

Chennai. For details, call For details, call 9840597452 dent. An added feature, one Instagram handle is
based flours forms the foundation of her
7339534873 particularly favourable to zen @kiddiwinks_official
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DOWNTOWN
CHENNAI
SUSTAINABILITY 7
An old bicycle is still friendly to the planet

They missed
World Bicycle
Day by two
days, but in the
process kept
their date with
World
Environment
Day. Are not
cycles easy on
planet Earth and
meant to be
celebrated on
this day too?
LIFFY THOMAS
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O
n June 5, a motley
group comprising a
cab driver, an artist,
a security guard, an
agriculturist, a banker and a
few retired professionals
assembled at a house in
Anna Nagar West to
celebrate the bicycle: It was
a display of vintage and
classic bicycles. Some of The group; (right) T Rajendhiran and (below) V Jothiramalingam and his children . PHOTOS: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
participants worked the
vintage and classic pedals on the lookout for old spare based in Villivakkam, says:
while heading to the venue
just to illustrate these
parts for his Rally, Humber
and Robin Hood,
“Most of the heritage
bicycles are more than 20
Children’s
machines are sturdy and
built to outlive generations
handmedowns from his
father.
kilos but unlike the modern
bicycles, they do not
tricycles, a
of people.
They are members of
“It is not easy to find
these spare parts in the city,
wobble.”
Since the Club was
show stealer
Madras Vintage Bicycle Club and networking with established in 2018, it has At the meetup hosted by
that held its first inperson vintage bicycle lovers not had any new members. Madras Vintage Bicycle
meetingcumexhibition helps,” says V Prabhakar, who Club (MVBC) to celebrate
after a twoyear hiatus Jothiramalingam. cobbled together this group, World Bicycle Day, the
caused by the pandemic. The Humber, he says, is says they are clear that one noteworthies included
Nostalgia is not the sole what he often uses while should own a bicycle older Pierce of US origin, Ra
binding factor for this shopping in and around his than 1970. “Besides, one leigh, Humber, Rudge, Her
group, but also the house in T Nagar. needs to have real passion cules, Phillips, Norton, Ro
knowledge required to keep T Rajendhiran, who for such bicycles to be part binhood, BSA of UK origin
these pedals moving. retired from Heavy Vehicles of the Club; we are quite and Oryx chopper of Ja
And many of these cycles Factory in Avadi, reveals selective about who joins pan.
are familiar with what it that he has two rooms in his the group,” says Prabhakar, The showstealers were
takes to commute to work house dedicated to his a businessman and resident clearly children’s tricycles.
in these times. vintage bicycles, which of Anna Nagar. A mechanic many of which were
Ten days in a month, N number around 10. in his 70s is also part of the around 100 years old.
Sachidanandam, working as RudgeWhitworth brand of meetings and he is the goto Some visitors identified
a security personnel, pedals 20, 22 and 24 inches are his person for repairs. one tricycle as belonging to
a 22inch Humber, 48 favourite. The Club members plan the Nehru's period and
kilometres each way, Banker Naveen to have a meeting next that he had ridden one of
between his workplace in Narayanan unwraps the month. them, says a press release.
Poes Garden and his home exciting aspect of owning a BSAairborne bicycle from
in Thiruchendur. On the vintage bicycle. World War II also fascinat
way, he and his Humber lap “To find information ed the visitors. Pierce hy
up the generous attention about the bicycle, you gienic cushion frame bicy
that comes their way. browse websites and cle of 1897 which had a
“Some take pictures of my contact the company, if it shock absorber supported
bicycle,” he says with pride. still exists,” says Naveen, with leaf spring soaked up
At home though, his who has 20 vintage bicycles a lot of attention.
hobby hardly draws any including two children’s Many of the bicycles on
brownie points, only bicycle of 1890 and 1910. display had Sturmey Arch
arguments. RR Rajan, a Tanjore artist er 3speed gears. Some had
He believes the cycle has coaster brakes and even
a lot to do with the fact that drum brakes. Bicycle
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at 56, he does not have
hypertension or diabetes.
Many of these heritage cycles are familiar with what it takes to commute to sene, carbide stone and dy
Driver V Jothiramalingam work in these times namo were also exhibited.
says wherever he goes, he is
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DOWNTOWN
Handicrafts sale Crochet workshop in Adyar Session on mushroom

cultivation in Guindy
S
.V. Arts & Crafts is
in Thiruvanmiyur conducting a cro
T
NAU Information &
chet workshop on Training Centre in
June 14 at its premises in
A
sale of handicrafts Guindy is conduct
and handloom pro No: 19, Third Avenue, Indi ing a workshop on mush
ducts is on at Ka ra Nagar, Adyar. For de room cultivation on June
lakshetra Foundation in tails, call 9444521327 16. Also, a culinary work
Thiruvanmiyur. The sale Time: 10.30am to 1.30pm shop on vegetarian gra
ends on June 19. Time. Participants will be taught vies will be held on June
From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. to make bags, clutches, 17. The programme is
According to a press re doilies, shrugs, skirts, open to all. For registra
lease, Rajkot silk Patola sa frocks, and sweaters. tion and other details,
ris, Muslin saris, Benaras call 04429530048.
saris, recycled bags, Phad
painting, bead jewellery,
Dokra jewellery from Od
Humour club to meet today Art workshop for beginners
Besant Nagar Humour Club is organising its monthly meet
isha, carpets, and many Hindustan Trading Company at ic techniques of gouache, which
on June 12. It will be held at Mangayarkarasi Magalir Man
more are available. Royapettah is conducting an art is done using grade opaque wa
dram, No:3, 11th Cross Street, Shastri Nagar in Adyar.
For details, call workshop for beginners on tercolours, will be taught, said a
Time: 4 p.m. For details, call 9444755430.
9480337734 / 8553836868 ‘Painting Houses with Gouache’ release. For details, contact
on June 12 at 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Bas 97909 95771
Chennai student awarded gold medal

by national body in medical sciences
M
aria Susan KIMSR was under the Allied Health
Abraham, a established in 2010 by Sciences stream. The
student of DNB Dr TG Govindarajan, courses offered include
Family Medicine — chairman of Dr B.Sc Radiography and
2020 batch from Dr. Kamakshi Memorial Imaging Technology
Kamakshi Institute of Hospitals with the (RIT), B.Sc
Medical Sciences and vision of generating Radiotherapy
Research (KIMSR), was qualified human technology (RTT) and
declared a gold resources for the B.Sc Medical
medallist at the 21st healthcare industry, Laboratory Technology
Convocation of National says a press release. (MLT), the release adds.
Board of Examinations KIMSR is affiliated to For more details, visit
in Medical Sciences, The Tamil Nadu Dr. www.kmhinstitute.com
New Delhi. MGR Medical University and www.drkmh.com
Maria Susan
A showroom for
bathroom needs
L
ifestyle Galleria, a unit of Varsiddhi Enter
prises Pvt Ltd, has created a live wellness
experience centre at its new showroom in
Kotturpuram.
With this, customers can experience luxury
products such as shower spa, steam cabins and
spas.
PWD minister Durai Murugan, health minister
Ma Subramaniam and Tamil Nadu Housing
Board chairman Poochi S Murugan were among
those who took part in the event marking the in
auguration of this showroom.
Other products at the outlet include tiles, san
itary ware, water heaters and shower enclo
sures. The outlet also has branches at Anna Na
gar and Madhavaram.
An initiative to recognise
home entrepreneurs
Nominations are invited for the fifth season of Sak
thi Masala ‘Homepreneur Awards 2022’. Instituted
by Brand Avatar, the event recognises women en
trepreneurs running homebased ventures under
13 categories and helps them find mentors and fi
nancial support for their businesses. According to a
press release, this edition is also providing college
students a platform to share their entrepreneurial
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ideas.To register and for other details, visit https://
homepreneurawards.com

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