A Thai Food Festival is now on at Green Park Hotel – it started on July 29 and runs till August 7, for dinner only The taste of this food is uniquely hot, sour, salty, sweet and particularly highlighted with citrus i.e. lemon grass & lime, basil & galangal (Thai ginger). The Thais excel in [...]
What is the importance of August 9? Very few answers. What is the importance of August 15? Everybody knows it – India’s Independence Day. But only few know that August 9 is the Independence day of Singapore. A skit was staged by the students of Std IV of Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Virugambakkam, highlighting the significance of [...]
Padma Sarangapani hosted its Annual Day celebrations at its school campus in Virugambakkam. The event started at about 3 p.m. and ran for about 4 hours. Students took turns to entertain their colleagues and parents of students – dance, music, extracts of plays and fun were part of the events. Photo featured here was taken [...]
Devi Academy in Valasarawakkam hosted an interschool culturals fest on its campus on Friday. It was called Devi Prathibha. A man made up like a robot in Enthiran stole the show on stage when the fest was inaugurated. The chief guest was popular mimicry artiste Senthil – he shared some light moments with the guests. [...]
Padma Seshadri Bal Bhavan (PSBB) group of schools hosted their annual cultural extravaganza at the Kamaraj Arangham hall in Teynampet this week. The accent, as it always is was on gurus ad teachers and Indian culture. Students of all the PSBB group schools took part with each school’s group staging different parts of this spectacle. [...]
ISKCON is conducting a year-long weekly programME for children aged 5 to 10 called ‘Bhakta Prahlad School’ which will train children to develop their personality with strong roots in the joy of Vedic histories, culture and discipline. The course will also include Bhajans, Bhagavad-Gita slokas, mantra meditation, craft and cultural activity. The course will commence [...]
Here is a mela for women. The Ashok Nagar Progressive Women’s Assn. has listed a host of fun events/contests and offers loads of prizes as part of its 16th anniversary on July 30. The mela is at Lakshmi Hall in Ashok Nagar. There is a Game Show for which registrations are invited from mother- in-law, [...]
he Calibre Educational Foundation believes in developing happy, knowledgeable, proactive and responsible global citizens by providing education of a quality that is competitive in the international scenario through a system of activity oriented teaching and participative learning. This belief is reflected in the systems adopted at Calibre. Learning Stations have replaced conventional classrooms. The students [...]
Usha Mohan, Carnatic vocalist, runs the Swara Raga Manjari Academy in Sai Baba Colony, just off Kaliamman Koil Street in the Ilango Nagar, Virugambakkam. Usha Mohan recalls the Annamacharya Day that she always keenly organized when she used to live in the SAF Games Village colony in Koyambedu. “On May18th, every year we celebrated Annamayya [...]
Actor Vivek who resides in Padmavathy Nagar in Virugambakkam has promised to green areas wherever he can in this state with a band of volunteers. He promises to plant at least ten lakh saplings when he gets time and the space to do so. The comedian launched his campaign recently and said this was part [...]
