On Saturday, nearly 50 students of Dr Dharmambal Govt Polytechnic College for Women, accompanied by their faculty, will begin to sort books at the library from 10 am. Uma Maheswari, the Chief Librarian said, “Most of the books are 80-150 years old. The pages have a high acid content and have turned yellow. So, they …
“I was visiting my son Narendran who works as a professor at the Northwestern University, Chicago, and showed the short stories to him,” she says with a shy smile. He promptly sent her manuscript to a few publishers. “When one of them approved it, I got down to editing and fine-tuning it with Narendran,” says …
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Seven-year-old Manimegalai and her mother Sumathy were his co-travellers. Suddenly, Sumathy turned around and asked him for directions to Child Trust hospital with tears trickling down her cheeks. When he learnt that Manimegalai was suffering from a rare heart problem, he promised to help them. He knew he had to rush to office but could …
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“I wanted to make their job easier with my app AskChitVish Premium. The way each item is made has been explained stage by stage with photographs. One has to just fix the mobile at a convenient place in the kitchen and begin to cook,” says Chitra Viswanathan, a 78-year-old culinary expert. The highly tech-savvy Viswanathan, …
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Walking briskly with a laptop is nothing out of the ordinary these days. But not for a near Centenarian who goes around his tasks undauntedly. One can hardly see the gizmo tucked away in a handy jute bag as he pulls it out to explain about his latest venture. Parthasarathy Iyengar of Triplicane is board …
It was an unusual scene to see a man loading a huge stock of hay into the back of a black swift car, on the fringes of Tambaram. Dressed in jeans and a branded shirt, the man loads the bundles, all the time speaking warmly to the seller. Now a kind of curiosity takes over, …
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When you crane your neck to look beyond the gateway, elegant tombstones, despite being dilapidated, covered by creepers and climbers catch your eye. This vast piece of land under the bridge (it replaced the Stanley Viaduct, a narrow pedestrian way, opposite the Central Station), belongs to the Church of St Mary’s in Fort St George. …
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“This part of the road has not been laid for more than 2 years now. It is so difficult to regulate traffic here as all the vehicles try to use the well-laid part of the road,” says the traffic personnel posted here. The road was good until two years ago. On a request from the …
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However, problems like encroachment of public space has drawn the ire of residents here. People like Chandra Ramani, who have been living in South Mada Street for generations says, “We demolished an 80-year-old house and built apartments. We had created a slope on the platform area to enable entry of vehicles into the apartment. But …
MOP Vaishnav College for Women came into being due to the sustained efforts of two trusts — the Sri Vallabhacharya Vidhya Sabha and Dewan Bahadur MO Parthasarathy Aiyengar Charities. The college was started in 1992 with three courses — BCom, BBA and BSc Mathematics. Presently, the college offers 15 UG, seven PG courses and a …