Fruit trees at Mantri campus

Mr Sundaram not only welcomed the idea, but also suggested we plant fruits saplings that would benefit Mantri's children and their children for decades to come.  He planted a mango, and we have, growing on the lawns by the swim-pool, a guava, a sapota plant and another mango, planted to celebrate Advik,  the second child born at Mantri's...More

Hotel Dasaprakash at Chennai to go

....... I had to read it with some curiosity because the great Hotel now stands for sale to give way to a multi-storey residential complex in a multi crore project.  My curiosity about this was because of its imprint in my memory from 27-4-1966 .... (read more.. )

Walking with Nizhal in Anna University

I went armed with my iPad. Why? Loaded on it was the Nizhal Siemens Gandhinagar Tree Guide, with more than 40 common trees of Chennai (all present in Gandhinagar, Adyar) identified via their fruit, flower, leaf or pod!

There were about 20 students of the college from the Youth Red Cross who came along with me. There were two other resource persons Latha and Yamini, who went to other parts of the large and green campus. These were the trees seen and talked about, along the western driveway just inside the main gate. This is the path I took.

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Ole testimonial returns to where it originated, 118 years later

Out of curiosity, I looked up if an old school in Madras that existed in 1889 still survived today. It was because there was a testimonial taken by my great grandfather from that school when he left that teaching job. I am so happy that my curiosity ended up in the documents ending up at a place where it originated 118 years before. More...