Reported by Naveen, Secy of Assn. There are two Welfare Associations in Palaniappa Nagar. We have more than 208 families of our Nagar paying Rs. 150/- per month as subscription. We recently coordinated with the District Election Officer’s Office and got more than 350 new Voter ID cards for our Nagar residents. We have employed two night time security [...]
G. Mullaivanam, the campaigner for tree cultivation and protection in the Arcot Road area is on to a new campaign. He says he and his team at Tree India are keen to give a fresh lease of life to roadside trees that appear to be dry or half-dead. The past weeks the team has been [...]
Reported by Sashi Nair It’s difficult to believe today that not too many years ago – in the early 1970s – there was really no proper approach road to K K Nagar, that there were hardly any buildings that dotted the landscape, and that most of the area was made up of paddy fields and [...]
The next event of Namma Arcot Road will be a talk and Power Point presentation on ‘Old Temples around the Arcot Road neighborhood by writer-scholar Dr Chitra Madhavan. Date: Saturday 29 January 2011 Time: 4.30 pm Venue: Sri Sastha Sangam ( Aiyappan Temple), Ponnambalam Salai, K K Nagar This event is free and open to [...]
Valasarawakkam-based Eurokids celebrated its 2nd ‘Health is Wealth Day on Saturday, January 8. This pre-school chain celebrates a day every year to focus on the importance of health. The children of this school had fun playing ‘Formula 1 on the Eurokids Tracks’, ‘Bats in Sports game’, ‘Chak-de Chak-de Hockey’ – the games which were conducted. [...]
A great deal of attention seems to be on the Vadapalani station of the proposed Metro Rail project which is underway ina big way in this area. Project leaders have begun to get firm designs for the station at this busy junction which will also get a flyover, a long standing civic need as traffic [...]
Vadapalani’s backyard continue to throw up seedy stories and messy lives that link up to people who seem to have something to do with films. Hardly a week passes without a starlet, an artiste or a middleman hitting the headlines – all for the wrong reasons. A long running serial is of a star couples [...]
Reported by N. Chandrasekaran Bhaskar Colony this year has planned to celebrate Republic day in a grand manner and has started holding competitions and events. ahead of the big day. On 9th January, 2011 the team had conducted drawing competition for various age groups viz. upto 6 years, 6 years to 10 years and above [...]
The students of Deepa Ganesh performed in the Marghazhi Music Festival which is conducted every year in the Swami Iyyappan Temple K.K.Nagar . The students sung in three batches, Two in the junior level and one in the senior level. The music rendition was well received by the audience. Deepa Ganesh resides in K.K.Nagar and [...]
Singer Mahathi a resident of this neighbourhood recently released a new album of classical songs. She has sung 9 thillanas set in rare ragas. The thillanas have been composed and tuned by Raghunathan of Saligramam, popularly known as HMV Raghu, a veteran in the music industry. The CD contains all the 9 Thillanas named “Navaratna” [...]
