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Before-and-after images of Second Main Road and Third Cross Road Street
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treet corners are always and the police. First, GCC garbage which they were be followed by watering of the added to the beautification of
a problem and are cleared the garbage and the dumping based on the plants, painting and our colony. Beforeandafter
highly prone to garbage police and the Corporation amount of space available to maintenance of the side wall pictures show the results in They missed World Bicycle Day
dumping and encroachments evicted the vendors from the them. Once the accumulated and platform. The streetend our Second Main Road. by two days, but in the process
kept their date with World En-
by food carts and vendors. To ends of the street. In all the garbage and vendors were residents, who were the most Similar results were achieved
vironment Day. Are not cycles
resolve this issue street ends we found that cleared, the Association affected, partly cofunded the at Third Cross Road Street.
easy on planet Earth and meant
permanently, Seethamma vendors had quietly quickly swung into action to cost of the exercise along with (Bharath Srinivasan is
to be celebrated on this day
Extension Welfare Association destroyed the platform to get reclaim the public space by the Association. Apart from secretary, SEWA) too? P7
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recently had to go to Chen necessarily manage by all one
nai Central Railway Station self or has to depend on por
twice and I could under
stand the magnitude of the
ters. Second: Rolling suitcases
are now used by many as they
Central and Egmore railway
task in managing the volume of
traffic. The following comes to
are handy to move from one
place to other. Of course, the
stations’
my mind. One: There are no flooring has to be suitable for
selfhelp trolleys available for dragging; if not, the passenger
W
e wish to draw the attention of the Com
persons who come to receive may have to lift and carry the missioner of Greater Chennai Police to
passengers. suitcase. In Chennai Central how the general public are fleeced by auto
Previously, there used to be Station, some of the platforms rickshaw drivers at Central and Egmore Railway Sta
many and one could comforta are still not “suitcase drag tions.
bly take one for assisting a pas friendly”. Platform No.3 is an “May I Help You” counters can be opened to en
senger; or passengers can as example. sure that this does not happen.
sist themselves too with that to J Giridharan TS Krishna
come out of the platform to Balaji Avenue, President, South Madras Club,
board a bus or cab. One has to Iyappanthangal Fie photo Ellis Road
Stopping by and shaking paws with strangers
Priya Ganesh indefatigably scours her neighbourhood for stray dogs that
may be in desperate need of a morsel
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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
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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.
A ‘roaring’ Environment Day message by school students
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he theme of this year’s LKG to Standard 8 assembled at and appreciate them. The rally ‘Remember that we are on create a world that gives all
World Environment Day Jeeva Park as early as 6.30 a.m., was followed by a street play in top of the food chain’ they said forms of life (including tigers)
is ‘Only one Earth’ and and took out a rally about “Sav English and Tamil interspersed ‘and play an integral part in their own space, says a press re
2022 is the ‘Lunar Year of the ing Tigers”, carrying placards with Tamil folk songs that con maintaining a healthy ecosys lease from the school. ‘Let’s live
Tiger’, and students of PSBB T with messages on tiger conser veyed a “conversation” bet tem’. In turn, the ‘human be and let live’ announced the
Nagar melded these two ideas vation. The accompanying ween tigers and human beings. ings’ accepted that they should young children – a message that
and came up with a rather un chant ‘Save Tigers’ delivered in It was touching to see the ‘tig not let their greed play havoc resonated with all the people at
ique message on June 5, one the children’s youthful and in ers’ request human beings not with the life of tigers and their the park the joggers, visitors
that they delivered in a refresh nocent voices echoed around to hunt them for their skin and habitat. “Having One Planet” and parents. The event was
ingly novel manner. the park, making the visitors other parts and give them their highlights the need to redefine conducted as part of an activity
The students ranging from pause and read the messages rightful place on the planet. our thoughts and actions to of WWFIndia.
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n a week’s time, 23 months as more than self admitted. “I was de
yearold R Karthik 90% of my cells were im termined that I want to
will complete a six mature in this condi go ahead with exam, and
year course, and that tion,” says Karthik. so I postponed getting
would make him a doc Karthik says that his admitted and gave the
tor of pharmacy. That is first reaction to this was, exam,” he says.
During the meet held on Cancer Survivors Day no small feat for some strangely, a laugh. “I had Karthik notes there
one who spent the last heard and read a lot were many other odds to
four years shuttling bet about cancer patients deal with: One of them is
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ore than 100 cancer Professor Dr Anita Ramesh, need for early diagnosis,” says
survivors including founder and managing trustee Dr Anita. ween home and hospi and their struggles but the huge medical bill that
children took part in of the Foundation and senior “When we have survivors tals. He was undergoing the realisation that I was his parents had to foot.
‘Conquer 2022’, an annual consultant in medical oncolo sharing their stories, shoppers intensive chemotherapy among them only hit me “Dr Anitha who heads
event organised in Chennai by gy, said the Trust was started in also take note,” she says, noting after a diagnosis of the later,” he says. oncology at Saveetha
Freedom from Cancer Relief 2010 and registered in 2015 that Forum Mall and Chennai cancer of the bone mar But he was not going Medical College Hospital
and Research Foundation and since then they have Citi Centre have been among row. to let cancer rule his life. was a big support, always
(FFC) to recognise people who reached out to nearly 1000 sur the venues in the past. In 2018, in his second Family and friends encouraging me and
have undergone treatment vivors. In the previous years, the year at college, when close to him suggested connecting me with oth
while being up against various “A majority of them are my event also saw survivors walk Karthik was going to ap he discontinue the er survivors,” he says.
other odds. patients and we have been en the ramp, play musical instru pear for a pharmacology course but Karthik Apart from the classes
The event had a generous gaging with them through so ments and showcase their ma exam, his eyes showed would not countenance that kept him occupied,
sprinkling of music, dance and cial media and WhatsApp,” ny talents. abnormal colouring and the idea. listening to music helped
experiencesharing sessions by says Dr Anita, who heads med Dr. Anita said that when so itching. “From the very begin him immensely, he says.
survivors, their friends, family ical oncology at Saveetha Med meone feels their body is un He initially dismissed ning, I was clear that I Karthik says he has
members and medical profes ical College Hospital. dergoing physical uneasiness, it after showing it to a will carry on somehow cleared all his papers so
sionals. The Trust was established to they should go for cancer doctor not knowing that and I am grateful that I far without any arrears.
The meet was scheduled to help and inspire cancer survi screening, which is important they were early signs of could somehow manage; “My will power
coincide with National Cancer vors, spread awareness about for the early detection of can cancer. Later, diagnosis the online classes con helped me sail through
Survivors Day, which falls on the disease, render services cer. Ezhilan Naganathan, MLA showed that he had ducted due to the pan these years of treatment
the first Sunday of June. and sponsor medical treat and Tamil Nadu Health Secre Acute Lymphoblastic demic turned out to be a and the support I got
Stories of delayed check ment and therapies for the tary Dr. J Radhakrishnan were Leukemia. big help,” he says. from people around me
ups, postponed surgeries and needy. among the special guests at the At a private hospital Once, Karthik had to was also a huge help,”
how lockdown restrictions so “We usually have our annual event. that Karthik was first ad appear for a midexam says Karthik.
metimes interfered with treat events at malls to be able to For more details, visit mitted in, the doctor just three days after a Karthik is planning to
ment were shared. create awareness about the www.freedomfromcancer.co.in gave him little chance of session of chemothera find a job in Chennai.
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ions Clubs
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aria Susan Abraham, courses offered include neighbourhood. You should
a student of DNB Fa B.Sc Radiography and send the writeups to down International District
mily Medicine — Imaging Technology (RIT), town feedback@ thehindu 324M celebrated its
2020 batch from Dr. Ka B.Sc Radiotherapy technol .co.in. Letters must carry 60th week of service at the
makshi Institute of Medical ogy (RTT) and B.Sc Medical the postal address and con Institute of Child Health
Sciences and Research Laboratory Technology tact number. Here’s a short and Children Hospital,
(KIMSR), was declared a gold (MLT), the release adds. For note on the basic building Paediatric Cancer Ward,
medallist at the 21st Convoca more details, visit blocks of any short news Egmore recently. Lion J.
tion of National Board of Ex www.kmhinstitute.com feature. Badrinath, District
aminations in Medical Scienc and www.drkmh.com a) The lead is the first sec Chairperson of “Can win
es, New Delhi. tion of an article, and leads Cancer”, with the support
KIMSR was established in that narrate a human situa of Lions Club of Madras
2010 by Dr TG Govindarajan, tion work the best. Fort St.George, Lions Club
chairman of Dr Kamakshi Me b) The next element is the of Golden Fort, Golden
morial Hospitals with the vi cosmic paragraph, in which Sun and Society For At the event
sion of generating qualified you give the overall picture. Protection of Unborn
human resources for the c) The articles have to be Child sponsored proton to the director incharge of “chemport device” that
healthcare industry, says a factually wellgrounded and nutrition powder, biscuits the Children Hospital Dr. would help cancer
press release. the central portion, which and a special lunch to S.Sathyamoorthy, said a affected children. Lion
KIMSR is affiliated to The will consist of a few para cancer affected children. release. Lion R.Murali S.Sridhar and Lion
Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical graphs, should support the Chemport for three honoured J Badrinath for Chandrakala hosted lunch
University under the Allied anecdotal paragraph and children were presented helping procure the to patients.
Health Sciences stream. The Maria Susan the cosmic paragraph.
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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
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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.”
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The platter of breads includes Ko IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SMALL BUSINESSES
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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
round the corner. It happened to be baking better food
as her sister was a professional baker. See choices.
ma liked what she baked in her kitchen, and For details,
Adonai Bakes and Confectioners with its call
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was born.
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n accident that cost
skin-deep
him a leg and a job
(as team leader in a
A bend in the
This Besant Nagar-based
mobile service centre)
could not rob him of his re
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 —
new purpose to a dwindling habit
connoisseur long before Pemi’s Kitchen — in his
she took the locality. Pallikaranai resident bounces back A mompreneur is promoting
He managed more than from a major accident and starts
entrepreneurial plunge buyin from his family. They
reading among children through an
plunged into the business, a cloud kitchen in his locality exercise that makes it affordable,
labouring shoulderto
shoulder with him.
accessible and also technologically
Having overcome the in up-to-date
itial hiccups of entrepre
neurship, Jai is gloating ov
er a kitchen that cooks up
parcels of food nonstop
between 12 p.m. and 3 p.m.
every day, with Sunday
leaving the staff rushed off
their feet.
The kitchen’s signature
biryanis and chicken and
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nviolable truth: What one
focuses on enlarges, so fish gravies are said to be a
metimes to entrepreneu big draw. “We offer stan
rial proportions. dardsized portions as well heart to give back to the workers in the area. Pemi’s
Before she became a cer as XLsized portions to ca community: Offering heavi Kitchen is also open to ca
tified hair and makeup artist ter to our customers’ needs ly subsidised meals — start tering snacks, juices, and
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ithya Mani, a human tennials: Novelty books,
and cosmetologist, Rehana and avoid food wastage,” ing at ₹65 for vegetarian meals for corporate events
resource professional which include audiobooks,
had been a skincarema says Jai. meals and ₹75 for nonvege and parties. For details, call
turned mompreneur, board books and popup
keup cognoscenti for years. He has also found it in his tarian meals — to lowwage 9677050279
put her son on a regular diet books. These interactive
“What I love the most of books when he turned books can be ordered on
about being a freelance ma three. She found a steady line from Kiddiwinks.
keup artist is the sense of
identity it brings me. I love
the fact that I can break the
A sweet indulgence sans the guilt source of reading material:
Wholesale usedbooks mar
kets. Nithya also did not face
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.
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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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n June 5, a motley
group comprising a
cab driver, an artist, a
security guard, an agricultu
rist, a banker and a few re
tired professionals assem
bled at a house in Anna Nagar
West to celebrate the bicycle:
It was a display of vintage and
classic bicycles. Some of par
ticipants worked the vintage
and classic pedals while
heading to the venue just to Children’s
illustrate these machines are
sturdy and built to outlive tricycles, a
generations of people.
They are members of Ma show stealer
dras Vintage Bicycle Club that At the meetup hosted by
held its first inperson meet Madras Vintage Bicycle
ingcumexhibition after a Club (MVBC) to celebrate
twoyear hiatus caused by the World Bicycle Day, the
pandemic. noteworthies included
Nostalgia is not the sole Pierce of US origin,
binding factor for this group, Raleigh, Humber, Rudge,
but also the knowledge re Hercules, Phillips,
quired to keep these pedals Norton, Robinhood, BSA
moving. of UK origin and Oryx
And many of these cycles chopper of Japan.
are familiar with what it takes The showstealers
The group; (right) T Rajendhiran and (below) V Jothiramalingam and his children . PHOTOS: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
to commute to work in these were clearly children’s
times. “It is not easy to find these dren’s bicycle of 1890 and tricycles. many of which
Ten days in a month, N Sa spare parts in the city, and 1910. were around 100 years
chidanandam, working as a networking with vintage bicy RR Rajan, a Tanjore artist old. Some visitors
security personnel, pedals a cle lovers helps,” says Jothira based in Villivakkam, says: identified one tricycle as
22inch Humber, 48 kilo malingam. “Most of the heritage bicycles belonging to the Nehru's
metres each way, between The Humber, he says, is are more than 20 kilos but period and that he had
his workplace in Poes Garden what he often uses while unlike the modern bicycles, ridden one of them, says
and his home in Thiruchen shopping in and around his they do not wobble.” a press release.
dur. On the way, he and his house in T Nagar. Since the Club was esta BSAairborne bicycle
Humber lap up the generous T Rajendhiran, who re blished in 2018, it has not had from World War II also
attention that comes their tired from Heavy Vehicles any new members. fascinated the visitors.
way. “Some take pictures of Factory in Avadi, reveals that V Prabhakar, who cobbled Pierce hygienic cushion
my bicycle,” he says with he has two rooms in his together this group, says they frame bicycle of 1897
pride. house dedicated to his vin are clear that one should own which had a shock
At home though, his hob tage bicycles, which number a bicycle older than 1970. absorber supported with
by hardly draws any brownie around 10. RudgeWhitworth “Besides, one needs to have leaf spring soaked up a
points, only arguments. brand of 20, 22 and 24 inches real passion for such bicycles lot of attention.
He believes the cycle has a are his favourite. to be part of the Club; we are Many of the bicycles
lot to do with the fact that at Banker Naveen Narayanan quite selective about who on display had Sturmey
56, he does not have hyper unwraps the exciting aspect joins the group,” says Prabha Archer 3speed gears.
tension or diabetes. of owning a vintage bicycle. kar, a businessman and resi Some had coaster brakes
Driver V Jothiramalingam “To find information about dent of Anna Nagar. A me and even drum brakes.
says wherever he goes, he is the bicycle, you browse web chanic in his 70s is also part Bicycle lamps powered
on the lookout for old spare sites and contact the compa of the meetings and he is the by kerosene, carbide
parts for his Rally, Humber ny, if it still exists,” says Na goto person for repairs. stone and dynamo were
and Robin Hood, handme veen, who has 20 vintage The Club members plan to also exhibited.
downs from his father. bicycles including two chil have a meeting next month.
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ar Free Sunday, an initiative to collection drive where old clothes, the image with Urbaser Sumeet which
Car Free Sunday is back promote non-motorised forms
of transport on a stretch in the
PET bottles and e-waste can be
dropped.
will be sharing it in social media with
the hashtag “NammaChennaiClean”.
The exercise is metro, is back with a new focus, a new Resident Welfare Associations that The aim of this edition of the Car
partner, but with reduced duration. have an exemplary record in waste Free Sunday is to create behavioural
tied to Waste management company Ur- management and NGOs working in change in people and thereby trans-
baser Sumeet, in association with the area will be setting up stalls on the form Chennai into an environment-
waste-management Greater Chennai Corporation, will host stretch of the road. friendly city, says a press release.
awareness; and a its first Car Free Sunday on a stretch The stretch, which will be cordoned Hari Balaji, head of the information,
of Elliots Beach Road on June 12 from off for motorised vehicles, will have a communication and education de-
plan to have more 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and the event would number of activities to engage the partment, Urbaser Sumeet, notes
roads included in be woven around the three R’s – Re- crowd, yoga, carom, chess and hop- there is a plan to take this initiative to
duce, Reuse and Recycle. scotch being some of them. Members other stretches in the metro. He adds:
the initiative is on To encourage people to reduce the of the public who are already segre- “A stretch of Marina Beach, Mylapore
the drawing board amount of waste being sent to the gating waste at source, will be en- and stretches in Zone 15 are among
landfill, the venue will have a special couraged to click a selfie and share those under consideration.”
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NAU Information & Training Centre in Guindy is con
ducting a workshop on mushroom cultivation on June columns,
Snapshots of Environment Day celebrations: Residents of RK Nagar took a walkathon with 16. Also, a culinary workshop on vegetarian gravies will write to downtown
placards and members of Dignity Dementia day care centre learnt to make seed balls and plant be held on June 17. The programme is open to all. For registra
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n the occasion of and civic society, said a re gramme aims to enhance cognises women entrepre
World Environment lease. The Vengadamanga the understanding of stu neurs running homebased
Day, ITC’s stationery lam panchayat dedicated the dents to biodiversity pre ventures under 13 catego
brand Classmate took up a land parcel for the develop servation and sustainabil ries and helps them find
tree plantation drive in the ment of an urban forest with ity. After attending the mentors and financial sup
city along with students. The an aim to mitigate issues re orientation session, stu port for their businesses.
company also partnered with lated to pollution and re dents are expected to vo According to a press re
the Environmentalist Foun create lost habitats by encou lunteer at the afforesta lease, this edition is also
dation of India to create a raging biodiversity, said the tion site in providing college students
“forest patch” at Vengada release. The company has Vengadamangalam and a platform to share their en
mangalam. This urban forest planned an orientation pro get involved in postplant trepreneurial ideas.
is being developed as part of gramme in 24 schools in the maintenance like plant To register and for other
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