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FREE862nd Issue : December 24 - 30, 2011Vol. 17, No. 30

The Editor and Staff of Mambalam TimesWish You a Merry Christmas

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By Our Staff ReporterThe following are details of

special services for Christmasand New Year in neighbour-hood churches:

Mambalam Thirusabhai(Madley 2nd Street, T. Nagar)

Dec. 25: 4.30 a.m: Christ-mas service; 9 a.m: Baptismservice.

Dec. 29: 6.30 p.m: Thursdayprayer.

Dec. 31: 11.30 a.m: Watchnight service.

Jan. 1: 12 midnight: New Year

Christmas, New Year services in churchesservice; 9 a.m: Baptism ser-vice.

Holy Cross Church, 76,South Boag Road, T. Nagar

Dec. 24: 9.30 p.m: Englishcarols; 10 p.m: Christmas VigilMass in English; 11.15 p.m:Tamil carols followed by VigilMass.

Dec. 25: 8 a.m: ChristmasMass in English; 9.15 p.m:Mass in Tamil.

Dec. 31: 9.30 p.m: Englishmass; 11 p.m: Adoration mid-night: Tamil Mass.

Jan. 1: 8.30 a.m: EnglishMass; 9 a.m: Tamil Mass.

ECI ArupanthanarDevalayam, 64/21,Govindan Road,West Mambalam

Dec. 24: 6.30 p.m: Holy ser-vice.

Dec. 25: 4 a.m: Christmasservice.

Dec. 26: 6 a.m: Holy service.Dec. 31: 10.30 p.m: Old year

service.Jan. 1: 12.01 a.m: New Year

service.

Ashok Nagar SabarimalaiYathirai Kuzhu (G-3, NaveenJayashree Flats, 69/33,Moorthy Street Extension,West Mambalam) has orga-nized a special program on Dec.25 for the 19th year.

The following are details:5 a.m: Mangala isai; 6 a.m:

Ganapathi & navagraha hom-ams; 7.30 a.m: Veda paaraya-nam; 8.30 a.m: Ayyappa poojaand laksharchanai; 11 a.m:

Special program for Ayyappadevotees tomorrow

Providing lunch for inmates ofSivasakthi Kakkum Karangal,Aalappakam; 11.15 a.m:Bhajans. All are welcome.

More details can be had fromV. Thyagarajan (Guruswamy)in phone 99623 20558.

Music & dance fest in Shasun Jain CollegeBy Our Staff Reporter

Shri Shankarlal SundarbaiShasun Jain College for Wo-men (3, Madley Road, T.Nagar) has organized ‘ShasunSruthi’ music and dance festi-val from Dec. 28 to 31.

The program will be inaugu-rated by R. C. Arumugam (Co-uncillor, Ward 141). AnuradhaKrishnamoorthy (musician),Dakshanyanee Ramachan-dran (Director, BharathaNithyapriya), Vimal Kumar

(Secretary & Correspondent),Gyan Jain (Associate Secre-tary) and Padma Shankar(Principal) will be present.

The following is the program:Dec. 28: 4 p.m: Inaugura-

tion; 4.30 p.m: AnuradhaKrishnamoorthy (vocal); 6p.m: V. Sree Chitra (vocal).

Dec. 29: 4 p.m: Vocal concertby students of B. S. MoothaGirls School; 4.20 p.m: Vocalconcert by students ofBharathiya Vidya Bhavan,Mylapore and Shasun JainCollege; 5 p.m: Dr. SumathiKrishnan (vocal), R. Raghul(violin), Kumbakonam K.Swaminathan (mridangam), S.Hariharasubramanian (gha-tam); 6.30 p.m: Mathuvanthi(violin) (GRG School, Coim-batore).

Dec. 30: 4 p.m: Dance bySuryanarayana Murthi (Ka-lakshetra Dance Institute), 5p.m: Mambalam Sisters (vo-cal), Dr. Hemalatha (violin),Gopathi Raman (mridangam),K. S. Rangachari (ganjira); 6p.m: Thyagaraja Kritis byteachers of Shasun Jain Col-lege; 6.30 p.m: Dance by stu-dents of Shasun Jain College;

6.40 p.m: Dance by students ofShrradhanjali School of Dance.

Dec. 31: 4 p.m: Srievats (vo-cal) (Ahobilam Oriental School,West Mambalam), 4.30 p.m:V. Priyaa and Sruthi (vocal)(Shasun Jain College stu-dents); 4.40 p.m: Dance byNithya, Gowthami and Bhu-vaneswari (Shasun Jain Col-lege students); 5 p.m: Rajastha-ni dance by students of ShasunJain College; 6 p.m: Kathakaliby students of SaraswathiNatyalaya, West Mambalam;7 p.m: Guitar and group danceby students of Shasun JainCollege.

All are welcome.More details can be had in

phones 2432 8506/07.

Talk on‘Mysterious fevers’tomorrowBy Our Staff Reporter

Dr. K. Nandhakumar willgive a talk on ‘Mysterious fe-vers’ at 10 a.m on Sunday,Dec. 25 in Kumaran SpecialityHospital, 1st Avenue, AshokNagar. All are welcome.

More details can be had inphone 99445 47364.

MLA to hear residents’grievances today

Mambalam & Kodambak-kam (part) Residents WelfareExnora has organized a publicgrievances meeting at 4 p.mon Saturday, Dec. 24 in Sri SaiMurugan Trust Hall, VathiyarThottam Main Road, Kodam-bakkam to discuss civic prob-lems.

V. P. Kalairajan (T. NagarMLA) and officials from Cor-

poration, Metrowater Board,Electricity Board, Police De-partment and other servicedepartments will be present.

Residents of CorporationDivision 133 (West Mamba-lam and Kodambakkam) arewelcome to attend the meet-ing. More details can be had inphones 98404 68168) 9094627419.

Articles of Randor Guy& J.S.Ragavan havebeen held over forwant of space.

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MAMBALAM TIMES Page 7December 24 - 30, 2011

By Our Staff ReporterMore CCTV cameras will be

installed in and around Mam-balam Railway Station afterrenovation of the control roomis completed soon, S. R. Gandhi(Senior Divisional SecurityCommissioner, Chennai Divi-sion, Southern Railway) toldMambalam Times on Dec. 22.

8 cameras were installed onthe eve of Deepavali.

Gandhi, who was on an in-spection visit, said that spe-cial teams have been formedto nab chain snatchers andthose indulging in ragging andcriminal activities. Action willbe taken against touts sellingtickets of long distance trains,he added.

More CCTV cameras for MambalamRailway Station

He said that passengersmay contact control roomnumber 90031 61710 for as-sistance in trains and women

helpline number 2535 3999 (24hours). S. Maharajan (Sub-In-spector, Mambalam RailwayProtection Force) was present.

By Our Staff ReporterWorldwide Human Rights

and Welfare Organization (1,Sarangapani Street, T. Nagar)has organized a grievancemeeting from 9 a.m to 12 noonon Sunday, Dec. 25 at 14,Moosa Street, T. Nagar on theoccasion of its 1st anniversary.

P. S. Chengai Padmanabhan(Founder-President), A.Lalitha Bohra (Vice-Presi-dent), R. Sundarmoorthy(President, Administration)and P. Venkateswaran (Presi-dent, Vigilance Committee) willbe present.

Lalitha told MambalamTimes that residents canpresent details of long pendinggrievances related to Govern-ment and Corporation ser-

Meeting to hear residents’grievances

vices.She said that there are regu-

lar meetings at 1 p.m on Wed-nesdays at 1, SarangapaniStreet, T. Nagar.

All are welcome.More details can be had in

phones 98841 07242 and98411 47030.

‘Spiritual doubtclearing meet’tomorrow

Vaithika Sri (448, TTK Road,Alwarpet) will conduct itsmonthly ‘Spiritual doubt clear-ing meeting’ from 3.30 p.m to 5p.m on Sunday, Dec. 25 inAyodhya Mandapam, AryaGowda Road, West Mamba-lam. All are welcome.

Thiruppavaifestival tomorrowBy Our Staff Reporter

Amarar Sandolin MemorialTrust and Sri Kodha BakthaSamajam have organized aspecial program from 9.40 a.mto 1 p.m on Sunday, Dec. 25 inSri Kotta SrinivasaiahRamanujam Koodam Chari-ties, 22/26, Duraisamy Road,T. Nagar as part of 53rd

Thiruppavai festival.The following are details:9.50 a.m: Thiruppavai

pasuram by A. D. Badrinara-yanan; 10 a.m: Thiruppavaiconcert by Aarthi Govinda-rajan & party; 11.15 a.m: Dis-course on ‘ThiruppavaiyumNachiar Thirumozhiyum’ byU. Ve. BadrinarayananParasarabhattar.

All are welcome.More details can be had in

phone 2371 9180.By Our Staff ReporterRasika Fine Arts (649, 47th

Street, 9th Sector, K. K. Nagar)and Jaigopal Garodia HinduVidyalaya) have jointly orga-nized their 8th annual mu-sical festival from Dec. 30 toJan. 8 in the school’s premises.The program will be inaugu-rated at 5 p.m on Friday, Dec.30.

T. Ramasami (Secretary,Science & Technology, Gov-ernment of India) will inaugu-rate the program. GirijaSeshadri (President, RasikaFine Arts) and R. P. Krishna-mmachari (Vice President) willbe present.

Krishnammachari told

Rasika Fine Arts music festival from FridayMambalam Times that‘Rasika Kala Bharathi’ title willbe conferred on Vidwan P. R.Narayanaswami (vocalist) byT. Ramasami. The award alsocarries a cash component ofRs. 5000.

The following is the schedulefor concerts (all start at 7 p.m):

Dec. 30: V. Ramachandran(vocal), M. A. Sundareswaran(violin), Umayalapuram Mali(mridangam).

Dec. 31: Jugalbandhi bySivaramakrishnan (sitar),Kalpana Venkat (violin),Thiruvallikeni Sekar (thavil),Chandrajit (tabla).

Jan. 1: Maharajapuram S.Srinivasan (vocal), Maharaja-

puram Ganesh Viswanathan(vocal support), MudikondanRamesh (veena), M. Rajiv (vio-lin), Thanjavur Kumar (mri-dangam), Anantha Padmana-bhan (ganjira).

Jan. 2: T. N. Seshagopalan(vocal), Delhi Sundarajan (vio-lin), R. Ramesh (mridangam).

Jan. 3: Sanjay Subramani-am (vocal), Nagai Muralidha-ran (violin), Thanjavur Rama-das (mridangam).

Jan. 4: O. S. Arun (vocal), M.R. Gopinath (violin), B. Siva-raman (mridangam), S. Gana-pathy (tabla), Krishnan (har-monium), Selvam (timing).

Jan. 5: Nithyasree Maha-devan (vocal), M. A. Krishna-

samy (violin), I. Sivakumar(mridangam), Sivaramakri-shnan (ghatam).

Jan. 6: Gayathri Venkata-raghavan (vocal), V. V. S. Mu-rari (violin), Thiruvarur Vai-thiyanathan (mridangam), N.Guruprasadh (ghatam).

Jan. 7: T. V. Sankaranara-yanan (vocal), Delhi Sundara-rajam (violin), Neyveli Nara-yanan (mridangam), S. Ven-kataraman (ganjira).

Jan. 8: Malladi Brothers (vo-cal), H. N. Bhaskar (violin), K.V. Prasadh (mridangam), K. V.Gopalakrishnan (ganjira).

All are welcome.More details can be had in

phone 2366 2930.

By Our Staff ReporterTraffic police have placed barricades along the middle of

Madley Road but this does not deter 2-wheeler riders frommoving on the wrong side in the face of oncoming vehicles whileapproaching the Madley Road-Usman Road junction.

Barricades don’t deter2-wheeler riders

Poompuhar’s sareeexhibition tillJan. 13By Our Staff Reporter

Poompuhar has organizedan exhibition cum sale of ‘ThalaiPongal Sarees of India’ till Jan.13 in its sales showroom at108, Anna Salai.

The exhibition is open from10 a.m to 8 p.m on all daysincluding Sunday. A discountof 10% is being offered.

Sarees from Tamilnadu,Andra Pradesh, Kashmir andBengal are on sale.

All credit cards are accep-ted.

Free eye camptomorrowmorningBy Our Staff Reporter

Vision Trends (28/67, Brin-davan Street, West Mam-balam, near Krishna Sweets)will conduct a free eye screen-ing camp from 9 a.m to 12 noonon Sunday, Dec. 25 in its pre-mises.

Cataract surgery will beconducted free for needy per-sons.

They should bring Xerox cop-ies of voter ID card or rationcard.

More details can be had inphones 4269 7969 and 9789962423.

tions. Later, some interlocu-tory applications were filed andthe Supreme Court disposed ofthem with observations anddirection.

The First Bench said thatfrom the Supreme Court’s or-der, it appeared that theshopowners who were repre-sented by their association andsome of them who had filedindividual cases were aggrievedby the CMDA and ChennaiCorporation’s action in sealingtheir premises on the basis ofthe report of the monitoringcommittee, that too withoutgiving them an opportunity tomake submissions.

Owners of sealed shops told to movemonitoring panel

The Madras High Court saidon Dec. 21 refused to order re-moval of seals on shop build-ings in T. Nagar area placed byChennai Corporation andCMDA on Oct. 31 for allegedbuilding rule violations.

Instead, the First Bench,comprising Chief Justice M. Y.Eqbal and Justice T. S.Sivagnanam, directed theshopowners to approach themonitoring committee ap-pointed by the High Court forredressal of their grievances.

The committee should exam-ine the details on merit and, inaccordance with law as towhether the construction is

legal and as per the sanctionedplan, so that the seal may beremoved till the disposal of thecases. It should pass individualorders on such requests as ex-peditiously as possible consid-ering the Supreme Court ob-servations.

The First Bench fixed the4th week of January for dis-posal of the cases.

The Ranganathan StreetMerchants Association hadfiled a special leave petitionbefore the Supreme Courtagainst the Madras High Courtorder on Nov. 1.

The Supreme Court disposedof the appeals with observa-

Indian ScienceMonitor awardfor 6 personsBy Our Staff Reporter

Indian Science Monitor (G.N. Chetty Road, T. Nagar) willpresent Sir J. C. Bose Memo-rial Award to 6 eminent per-sonalities in various fields in afunction on the occasion of its9th anniversary at 11 a.m onSunday, Dec. 25 in BasementBanquet Hall, MeenakshiBhavan Hotel Complex, G.N.Chetty Road, T. Nagar in the9th Annual function.

T. K. V. Rajan (Founder) toldMambalam Times that aposter, ‘Anna and beyond’, willbe released to create an aware-ness about shortfall in elec-tricity generation, rise in pricesof commodities, pollution,shrinking of Himalayan gla-ciers and vagaries in weather,farmers’ suicides and depletionof arable land.

All are welcome.More details can be had in

phone 93805 54557.

VishnuSahasranaamamchanting tomorrow

Devotees will chant VishnuSahasranaamam at 6.30 a.mon Sunday, Jan. 1 in Sri Pra-sanna Venakatesa PerumalTemple, Mettupalayam, WestMambalam.

There will be special ‘alangaa-ram’ for the presiding deity.

All are welcome.More details can be had in

phone 99411 44407.

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