Author: Karthikeyan Halan

Samskriya Foundation managing trustee Sandhya Jaichandren said,”We wanted to give a good atmosphere for children visiting libraries. So, through Samskriya Knowledge Centre, we have provided 600 creative and colourful books, two tables and 10 chairs. Apart from it, we have provided two computers where children can do online projects.”

Ariviyal Araichi – which connects the academic curriculum with the experiments to enhance understanding of the concepts, thereby stimulating interest among students. The programme is devised with practical experiments in Physics and Chemistry so that they can learn the general science concepts better through these practical sessions.

As an interesting tale, residents recall with amusement that everytime the DMK came to power, the destination boards on buses would read as ‘Kalaignar Karunanidhi Nagar’ and once the AIADMK came to power, it would be back to ‘K K Nagar’.

“I used to travel by 5E bus to my office from K K Nagar to Taramani. At Chinnamalai, Kakkanji used to get into the bus. Commuters and I used to ask him to sit by offering our seat. But he used to say ‘Amma Ukkarunga, Thaymarellam Nikakoodathu’. Even when the conductor offers him the seat, he would refuse to sit. This showed his simplicity,” she says.

The first Independence Day celebration was held in the vast sprawling quadrangle inside the Gemini Studios. This was the quadrangle used later for the popular drum dance sequence in the film ‘Chandralekha’,”Krishnaswamy says.

The book was released by Textan Chemicals managing director, Krishnamachari, and the first two copies were given to Citizen Guardians founder-chairman, V Ravichandran, and retired Corporation engineer, P Ramachandra Raju.

“The discourse attracts mixed crowd. Fifty per cent of the devotees come from far-off places to listen to the speeches,” he said.

The young lad, who was part of Junior Super Kings coolly picked up nine wickets in nine matches played in Yorkshire (UK) recently.