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• Vol. XXXIV No. 6, July 1-15, 2024

Lost Landmarks: The Stuffed Calf

This series of articles, on Lost Landmarks of Chennai has generally focused on monuments and places of interest that no longer exist. It has also looked back at these with a twinge of regret for what is lost. But not everything in the past was great and worthy of preservation. There were some aspects that […]

• Vol. XXXIV No. 6, July 1-15, 2024

Prof. C.V. Chandrasekhar – an ­inspiration to all

-- by S. Janaki

He was an icon, a colossus, an inspiration in the field of Bharatanatyam. Prof. C.V. Chandrasekhar was a multifaceted personality – a dancer, choreographer, musician, composer, academician, mentor, and a guru immersed in Bharatanatyam. He performed and taught for almost eight decades in India and across the globe. He was affectionately called CVC Sir and […]

• Vol. XXXIV No. 6, July 1-15, 2024

You Tube Journalism

-- by Sabitha Radhakrishna

According to a reputed newspaper, there are over 1 million Tamil YouTubers in India and the numbers will explode to 92 million. Staggering number but not surprising. Which one of us has not been affected by YouTube? People are doing “research” on YouTube (it used to be internet and Wikipedia) and base their findings after […]

• Vol. XXXIV No. 6, July 1-15, 2024

Welcoming a missing person

It was a tale fit for the silver screen that played out in real life. A man who went missing 28 years ago as a young lad was reunited with his family, who couldn’t believe that the brother they had given up for dead was actually alive! The unkempt-looking man, wearing dirty clothes, came to […]

• Vol. XXXIV No. 6, July 1-15, 2024

Madras Employment Exchange

-- by Karthik A Bhatt

The Employment Exchanges have for long been the lifeline for many aspirants seeking employment with government departments and agencies. The year 2024 marks the 80th since the establishment of the first such organisation in Madras. The origins of the Employment Exchange in the Madras Presidency date to the closing years of the Second World War. […]

• Vol. XXXIV No. 6, July 1-15, 2024

An amazing journey in squash for Srikanth Seshadri

-- by S.R. Suryanarayan

As fairy tales go this has to be one of the finest in Indian squash. This dates back to the turn of this millenium when the sport of squash in India got a next generation play facility in the form of the Indian Squash Academy (now called Indian squash and triathlon academy) in Chennai. Srikanth […]

• Vol. XXXIV No. 6, July 1-15, 2024

Thank you, Donors

We today, publish donations ­received with thanks for the ­period April to May 2024. – The Editor Rs. 50: Athirupa Manichandar Rs. 100: K. Rajendran Rs. 151: R. Ravindranath Rs. 400: A. Gauri Sankar, Ashok Krishnamurthi, Chandran Gopalakrishnan, T.N.C. Venkatarangan, N. Rajasekaran, R. Krishnamurthy, T. Appasami, Ratna Prabhu Rs. 500: S. Mahalingam, H. Sundar Rao […]

• Vol. XXXIV No. 5, June 16-30, 2024

Fragile Jasmine – With a Core of Steel

-- by Ranjitha Ashok

That was the image that flashed through your mind within minutes of meeting Jaya Krishnaswamy, special educator and founder of the Madhuram Narayanan Centre for Exceptional Children (MNC). This was over a decade ago, when MNC was set to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. You were among those who had been given an opportunity to contribute […]

• Vol. XXXIV No. 5, June 16-30, 2024

A poet who can also sing – Isaikavi Ramanan

-- by R.V. Rajan, rvrajan42@gmail.com

A person capable of applying his attention simultaneously to many activities is referred to as an Ashtavadhani. The title would certainly fit T.A. Venkateswaran, popularly known as Isaikkavi Ramanan, who has enriched the world of performing arts with his talents as a thinker, writer, poet, actor, speaker, singer, photographer and performer. I first met Ramanan […]

• Vol. XXXIV No. 5, June 16-30, 2024

Reflections in a lost ‘Garden of Paradise’ on a Chennai Sunday morning…

-- by Pushpa Chari

A month or so back, I stumbled upon my own ‘garden of paradise’. At the crack of dawn and literally in my own backyard. So here I am, with a book, of verse, a flask of filter ‘ kapee’, And thou (well, actually my dachshund Planet) beside me, And this (indeed) is paradise now”!! And […]