Vol.8 No.1 Jan 10 - 16, 2010NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWSPAPER

VADAPALANIVADAPALANIWEST MAMBALAM, ASHOK NAGAR, K.K. NAGAR, VADAPALANI, VIRUGAMBAKKAM

The first Sunday of the New Times celebrate with great Year, 2010, saw Vadapalani j oy, en thus iasm and

A grand finale to the marathon music festival

Wish youHAPPY PONGAL

Wish youHAPPY PONGAL

humility, the completion of Starting on January 4 in the 52- weeks of unbelievable, last year, the music festival uninterrupted unforgettable was held at Sri Kanchi weeks of classical Carnatic Kamakoti Shankara Matam music, throughout the year in West Mambalam, who so 2009. benevolently gave their dais

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DECEMBER SEASON FLASHBACK

Smt. Aruna Sairam, the magnetic crowd puller of the season, performed to a jam packed audience at the Music Academy. Rasikas who wanted to buy daily tickets thronged the gates of the Academy from 5 0’clockin the morning and the long queue was seen winding with many twists and turns ..Congratulations to the organizers for making the wait comfortable with seating arrangements, bajan music (during the long wait) and a cup of steaming hot filter coffee, in between ! Hats off to the scouts and volunteers who did a wonderful job in handling the crowd (consisting mostly of senior citizens )with respect and issuing tokens and tickets in an organized way !Needless to say, Aruna’s Kutcheri was out of the world and top class.

No wonder she received a standing ovation and loud cheering, which she richly deserved, from her loyal rasikas !

Smt. Aruna Sairam, the magnetic crowd puller of the season, performed to a jam packed audience at the Music Academy. Rasikas who wanted to buy daily tickets thronged the gates of the Academy from 5 0’clockin the morning and the long queue was seen winding with many twists and turns ..Congratulations to the organizers for making the wait comfortable with seating arrangements, bajan music (during the long wait) and a cup of steaming hot filter coffee, in between ! Hats off to the scouts and volunteers who did a wonderful job in handling the crowd (consisting mostly of senior citizens )with respect and issuing tokens and tickets in an organized way !Needless to say, Aruna’s Kutcheri was out of the world and top class.

No wonder she received a standing ovation and loud cheering, which she richly deserved, from her loyal rasikas !

Yet another musical magnet, Smt Sudha Ragunathan, performed at the Music Academy to a full house .. Getting tickets for her show was like trying to attend a cricket match where Tandulkar was going to play!!

Being Vaikunta Ekadesi Day, she had selected quite a few krithis on Sriman Narayana. It was almost the fag end of the season and one could see the strain in her silken voice. In future we feel that Academy should book Sudha for the first week of the season. In spite of this, she delighted the audience with her special numbers and was almost mobbed by her rasikas after the show…with many children waiting in line to get her autograph…!!

Aruna Sairam

Sudha Ragunathan

Ranjani and Gayathri It was indeed a scintillating music performance by Ranjani and Gayathri at the Kamaraj Memorial hall. Starting brightly with a traditional varnam in Sahana, the honey-voiced sisters had the crowd in a receptive mood. Saveri raga alapana climaxing with the lovely “Durusuga.. was elevating. Rasikas like me who waited for their viruthams ,were not disappointed ; as the duo sang Katra kalviyum…. which was strung as a garland of ragamalikas. It was followed by the soul-stirring rendering of Nambikkettavar evaraiyaa…? in Hindolam by Papanasam Sivan on the city’s favourite deity, Sri Kapaleeshwarar in the ancient temple at Thiru Mylai ! Then came another Ragamalika in Subramania Bharathi’s Pahaivanukkarulvai…, may be the right choice for today’s world. They concluded their kutchery with a popular abhang of Santh Namdev in the raga Maand. And even after returning, their bhathi laden music was ringing in my ears.

It was indeed a scintillating music performance by Ranjani and Gayathri at the Kamaraj Memorial hall. Starting brightly with a traditional varnam in Sahana, the honey-voiced sisters had the crowd in a receptive mood. Saveri raga alapana climaxing with the lovely “Durusuga.. was elevating. Rasikas like me who waited for their viruthams ,were not disappointed ; as the duo sang Katra kalviyum…. which was strung as a garland of ragamalikas. It was followed by the soul-stirring rendering of Nambikkettavar evaraiyaa…? in Hindolam by Papanasam Sivan on the city’s favourite deity, Sri Kapaleeshwarar in the ancient temple at Thiru Mylai ! Then came another Ragamalika in Subramania Bharathi’s Pahaivanukkarulvai…, may be the right choice for today’s world. They concluded their kutchery with a popular abhang of Santh Namdev in the raga Maand. And even after returning, their bhathi laden music was ringing in my ears.

Urmila SathyanarayananUrmila Sathyanarayanan

Is it possible for Indian women especially the dancers to come to size “0” effortlessly and remain there for years…? This was the million dollar question that treads our mind when we saw Urmila Sathyanarayanan in her dance performance at Bharath Kalachar. Not only does this lady remain slim and trim for years but looks younger every year ….amazing but true.

The beauty of this young dancer, sometimes distracts me from concentrating on the grace and bhava displayed in her dance...so ravishing she is. Charmingly dressed in a gorgeous white, black and red combo, she danced her way into the heart of every rasika that evening .The topic chosen was Ramaanubhava and the lyrics were from none other than Poet Arunachala Kavi’s Rama Natakam and the dancer was the petite Urmila. The rasikas were immersed in soulful rasaanubhava. Special mention has to be made of her Guha episode and her role as Anjaneya .

Is it possible for Indian women especially the dancers to come to size “0” effortlessly and remain there for years…? This was the million dollar question that treads our mind when we saw Urmila Sathyanarayanan in her dance performance at Bharath Kalachar. Not only does this lady remain slim and trim for years but looks younger every year ….amazing but true.

The beauty of this young dancer, sometimes distracts me from concentrating on the grace and bhava displayed in her dance...so ravishing she is. Charmingly dressed in a gorgeous white, black and red combo, she danced her way into the heart of every rasika that evening .The topic chosen was Ramaanubhava and the lyrics were from none other than Poet Arunachala Kavi’s Rama Natakam and the dancer was the petite Urmila. The rasikas were immersed in soulful rasaanubhava. Special mention has to be made of her Guha episode and her role as Anjaneya .

Any concert of O. S. Arun is bound to be one of its kind, which will be lively, bhava l a d e n , i n n o v a t i v e , t r e n d y y e t traditional…His kutchery at Bharat Kalachar was no exception to this rule. From start to finish, he kept the audience in full cheer and happiness with his imaginative raagaanubhava and swaraanubhava ! His clear diction, whatever be the language of the composition adds more magic to his presentation.

The master piece of the evening was a listener’s choice…the evergreen and never boring. Vishamakkara Kannan….. It was remarkable to hear the minutest twists and twirls of the swaras from his resonant voice, go up in ecstasy and glide down with ease, like the sparkles from Diwali flowerpot!

Any concert of O. S. Arun is bound to be one of its kind, which will be lively, bhava l a d e n , i n n o v a t i v e , t r e n d y y e t traditional…His kutchery at Bharat Kalachar was no exception to this rule. From start to finish, he kept the audience in full cheer and happiness with his imaginative raagaanubhava and swaraanubhava ! His clear diction, whatever be the language of the composition adds more magic to his presentation.

The master piece of the evening was a listener’s choice…the evergreen and never boring. Vishamakkara Kannan….. It was remarkable to hear the minutest twists and twirls of the swaras from his resonant voice, go up in ecstasy and glide down with ease, like the sparkles from Diwali flowerpot!

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Music Review by Ms. Rajeemani

Music Review by Ms. Rajeemani

O. S. ArunO. S. Arun

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The winners of the Vadapalani Times & Eltech Corporation's

Margazhi Mega Kolam contest

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virutham style. They also offered prayers for Shiva by sand a composition on rendering Kolaru padhigam Goddess Saraswath i , and Bolonatha Umapathey Yakundhendhu . . .. sambo Sankara pasupathe They melodiously sang and other songs with the ' A a r y a N a v a k a m o n accompaniment of the violin Goddess Mookambikai - a by Kalpana Venkat and the v e r y b e a u t i f u l a n d mridangam by Thanjavur meaningful nine slokas and Subramanian. Ethiraj on a palasruthi, written by Sri the kanjira and the morsing Adi Sankarar. At the player were excellent. Vocal beginning of the Arya support was given by Lata Navakam they efficiently Natarajan, Lalitha Ravi and chose two slokas from P . S . K a n n a n . S r i Shyamala Dhandakam in J a y e n d r a r ' s b r o t h e r Bhajan Ravi and party Avittam at Sri Sankara Kalyani raga and started the Ramakrishnan was present p e r f o r m e d a b h a j a n Vinayagar temple at AGS Arya Navakam set to throughout the programme. concert, which was a variety Colony, Kottivakkam. Ragamalika. Bhajan Ravi Devotees were provided fare that provoked divinity. The group sang many has tuned it in ragas with prasadams. The As part of Kanchi Sri scinti l lating Namavalis Ka lyan i , Bhageswar i , highlight was that the Jayendra Saraswathy i n c l u d i n g P r a b h o D u r g a , B a s a n t h , bhajan group sang songs Swamigal's platinum jubilee Ganapathey, Om Ganpathi B r indavana Saranga , on all the deities - Sri celebrat ions, Asthana Jaya, Hey Gananatha, Nee lambar i , Reva th i , V i n a y a g a r , S r i Vidwan of Sri Kanchi Sankara Guro', Karunai Ranjani, Sindhu Bhairavi D a k s h i n a m u r t h y, S r i Kamakoti Peetam, 'Bhajan mazhai pozhivaai, Sankara and the palasruthi in the Vishnu, Sri Durgai, Sri R a v i ' a l i a s P S S Guru jaya Sankara Guru, raga Surutti. The Bhajan Viswarupa Anjaneyar and Ravichandran and party Jagatguru kanchi kamakoti included slokas from Lalitha Sri Ayyappan - whose sang bhajan songs on Sri peetam vazhum Gurunatha S a h a s r a n a m a m a n d sannadhis are there in the Jayendrar's birth star etc followed by slokas in Soundarya Lahari too. They temple.

Bhajans, a way of worship

Srimannarayana in Bowli g r a t i t u d e i n t h e with swaram scored good Vaggeyakarar. imp ress ion f r om the N a r a y a n a Te e r t h a r ’ s audience. Samayamide Tarangam – Pahi Pahi Nanu Brova in Kedaram set Jaganmohan Krishna in to Rupakam was an Nada Nama Kriya raga a p p e a l i n g o n e . inspired devotional feeling. Shanmugapriya raga was She presented Lalgudi selected as sub-main and J a y a r a m a n ` s M i s r a brief alapana was made to Sivaranjani raga thillana as depic t i ts lakshanas. the concluding piece. A CA P a r a m a p u r u s h a & MCA candidate, the N i r u p a m a a n a i n vocalist`s passion for music Shanmugapriya set to i s a p p r e c i a b l e . r u p a k a m a l o n g w i t h S.V.Sudarsan, brother of swaram made the audience the vocalist supported her T i r u m a l a T i r u p a t h i sahithyaanubhav. She immerse in the concert. on the violin with dedication. D e v a s t h a n a m M u s i c commenced her concert Papanasam Sivan`s Enna T h e b r o t h e r - s i s t e r College lecturer Challa w i t h H a r i k e s a n a l l u r thavam saidane in Kapi c o m b i n a t i o n w a s a n Prabhavathi ’s disciple Muthaiah Bhagavathar’s raga was a treat for Tamil e n j o y a b l e o n e . T h e V . S o w m y a s r e e ’ s Daru Varnam – Mathe in audience. Bilahari was violinist’s and mrudanga performance at Vidhya Khamas set to Adi, which selected as the main raga of vidwan Madurai B.Sundar’s Bharathi, on the occasion of was a good start and scored the concert. The detailed talent came to light at the Sri Parthasarathy Swamy good response for a alapana has enthralled the time of alapana, wwaram Sabha’s 109th December beginning with variety. audience. Thiagaraja`s and taniavardhanam.Music Festival, revealed the A n n a m a c h a r y a ` s Dorukunaa Ituvanti Seva combinat ion of vo ice keerthanas were given conveyed the thought of - Sarmac u l t u r e , m e l o d y a n d preference in the concert.

Rich with sahithyaanubhav

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A book fair in the park - lovers as well as residents television where people had m i x i n g l e i s u r e w i t h and passersby. no time to enjoy the beauty knowledge- attracted a lot Raghunathan, a senior of a good book. She said of people. The book fair was citizen and a regular walker that this will help improve

th in the park, welcomed the our reading culture. held at the 12 Avenue park nd initiative and said that such The organizers informed in the 122 division of

book fairs will be of good that the book fairs will be Ashok Nagar, was opened use to people like him. He held in the parks at 1 by Corporation councilor also said that he wish such Avenue and 12 Avenue in Ko.Su.Mani.fairs is held once in a month Ashok nagar.A joint venture between the on a regular basis. Uma, a The Chennai district library Ashok Nagar local library, young walker said that staff S.Jeevaratnam and Pudhur branch and the new these initiatives will go P.Chellamuthu also took c e n t u r y b o o k h o u s e down well in this age of part in the function. attracted quite a few book

The State Bank of India of education. started a novel initiative by The cheque was disbursed adopting four girl children, at a small function held at studying in the Government the bank's branch premises. Higher Secondary School, The function was attended MGR Nagar. Each child was by Mathialagan, chief given a banker's cheque for manager, the staff members Rs. 5000 to meet their cost and customers.

A n u p a m a ' s m u s i c a l flexible timings, throughout and Carnatic. It also offers classes, Kodambakkam, the week. The institute's coaching for eight grades of iscelebrating its 15 years in w e l l - q u a l i f i e d a n d Trinity grade exams. The the field of music teaching. competent teachers handle new courses in tabla and The institute has well classes for keyboard, mridangam will start from developed infrastructure piano, guitar, veena, violin Jan 2010. facilities and parking space and Hawaiian guitar; in For details, contact: 98402 and offers classes in various genres like western 49380/2472 5152.

Sri Ramana kai murruku The outlet upholds the opinion that the sweets and centre,( 18/4, station road, standard of their products savouries are of the finest West mambalam), experts by using pure sunflower oil, quality and is very tasty. in the preparation of kai butter and other good The outlet works from murukku, offers sweets and q u a l i t y m a t e r i a l s . Monday to Saturday, 9 am savouries. Customers are of the to 9 pm.

Book fair in the park

Novel initiative by SBI

Anupama's journey through music

Delicious savouries

A workshop on ‘Value to achieve personal goals. Based Life for children’ will There will be 14 batches be conducted by Virtuous from January 1.Vidya Vision Research For details, contact : Academy to guide children 92836 64145

Workshop for children

Drawing competitionAaditya Kamaraja Eye standard I to XII at St. Hospital is conducting a John's Mat.Hr .Sec. School, drawing competition for Alwarthirunagar today. school children studying in For details ct: 23772829,

“ O m S r i M a h a m a y i M e d i t a t i o n , F a m i l y S a r v a t m a R a t s h a g i Guidance Workshops and S a t s a n g a m B h a j a n Spiritual Discourses for all Mandali” is conducting members. These are free regular Bhajans, Pooja, programmes. Homam, Atma Gyana For participation contact: Pooja, Divine Healing, 9941548551.

Bhajans and meditation

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In our culture, the art of the Kasi Viswanather Koil non-stick pans and pearl culture in this direction also. too, with added flavour and one hour. Rangoli or Kolams is an complex and was judged by s e t s , w e r e g i v e n t o E v e r y s i n g l e p e r s o n f ervour ..of course with the W h e n e v e n s e n i o r inseperable aspect of Mr Rao, Mrs La l i tha 15 top scorers of the a s s o c i a t e d w i t h t h e grace of Kanchi Kamakshi. mus ic ians re fer to a Margazhi. Subramanian and Mrs. contest. newspaper in general and What followed was a treat notebook or laptop on V a d a p a l a n i T i m e s Rajee Mani. The prizes were sponsored the music festival and kolam for the ears and music for stage, it was amazing that o r g a n i z e d a k o l a m The prizes were distributed by Eltech Corporation, West competition in particular the soul. the children could play the

nd in the evening on the Mambalam and Deivam were then honoured by the Yes! Young girls and boys Pancharatna kruti, Entharo competition (for the 2 year occasion of the valedictory Silks, T Nagar. ed i t o r and pub l i she r who are students of Sri Mahanubhavulu without a in succession) in order to of the music festival. As he was handing over the Vijayakumar. Harish Ragavendra School piece of paper in front, revive this slowly dying art There were 56 entries and prizes, Mr. Ramesh Praba, Mrs Lalitha Subramanian, in of Music in West Mambalam adhering to shruthi and laya form, so special to south loads of prizes to win. congratulated Vadapalani her address assured that gave a neat, flawless with ease !! I n d i a n v i l l a g e s . T h e Expensive prizes, which Times for their contribution the same feat will surely be programme of instrumental competition was held on included watches, silk saris, to the enrichment of our repeated in the next year and vocal music for the next - VP teamJanuary 3 in the morning at

the world, was telecast live from 3am to 5.30 am for t h e c o n v e n i e n c e o f bhakthas, who could not make it to the temples. Raj TV too did an excellent job as far as relay quality and c o m m e n t a r i e s w e r e concerned. DD Podhigai went one step further … O n e s a w l i v e transmission of Srirangam temple festival and Sri Parthasarathy Perumal temple, Triplicane, side by s i d e . . s o m e t i m e s simultaneously !It was indeed a magnificent As is the custom of today, Arul Neram fame had spiritual treat for the the television played a vital directed all his resources to bhakthas .Hats off to all the role in creating that spiritual bring to our drawing rooms, technicians, producers and atmosphere, so special to the sorgavasal thirappu at sponsors who made the Vaikunda Ekadesi. Jaya TV, the Sri Ranganathar Koil at event possible and with all Raj TV and DDPodhigai Srirangam. This spiritual its grandeur. vied with each other to o c c u r r e n c e i n

contribute their best in this Vaishnavism, which has no Rajee Manidirection. Sri Srikavi of parallel anywhere else in

December 28 of 2009 saw the divine celebrations of t he mos t ausp i c ious Ekadesi of the year. This is the time of the year when the Sorgavasal in the Vishnu temples are thrown open in the early hours of the morning (at about 5 a.m.). First it is the turn of Perumal, dressed and decorated in all splendour, to go th rough these symbolic gateways of heaven and then the d e v o t e e s w h o h a v e ga the red t he re f r om 3o’clock in the morning to on attaining mukthi. So it decorated beautifully, near follow suit. A bhaktha who was celebration time in all the Temple in the Sabha has traversed through the Vishnu temples. premises. Early in the Sorgavasal on this Ekadesi Other than the temples, morning on that day, day is said to have got a Bharath Kalachar had put devotees had gathered guaranteed ticket to enter up a huge picture of Sri there and participated in the the actual Vaikunda vaasal Ve n k a t e s a P e r u m a l , special aradhanas.

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Live telecast from channels Vaikunda Ekadesi celebrationsBharath Kalachar

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for the noble cause. Chitra, an established for the trend-setting rightly pointed out the social Vadapalani Times was ably young musician and multi- m a r a t h o n m u s i c a l dangers behind the single assisted by Rasigapriya talented daughter of Mr pilgrimage... the first one child family. He was all s c h o o l o f m u s i c i n . V i j a y k u m a r, e d i t o r - ever in the history of praise for every one who orgasnising 52 kutcheris by publisher of Vadapalani n e i g h b o u r h o o d contributed towards the up and coming young Times. newspapers in Chennai!! tremendous success of the musicians , every Sunday. Chandrasekar, with the She also congratulated the 52-week music festival and No mean achievement this abundant blessings of the s t a r l e t s w h o h a d wished Vadapalani Times is and no wonder that the A c h a r y a s o f K a n c h i p a r t i c i p a t e d a n d more laurels in the years to v a l e d i c t o r y f u n c t i o n Madam, had played the role successfully sprinkled the come. And the hundreds of organised on January 3 at o f an anchor by so powerful, positive vibrations audience listened to him in the Matam p remises graciously providing the of the sapthaswaras into the rapt attention. between 7 p.m and 9 p.m stage for 52 weeks for this ether of our city leaving The beautiful, casual thread was very well attended by Sangeetha Yagnya. In his b e h i n d t h e e t e r n a l of humour that entwined his the proud residents of the o p e n i n g s p e e c h , h e fragrance of cosmic music. v e r y m e a n i n g f u l neighborhood and al l congratulated Vadapalani The much awaited special presentation drew repeated rasikas of saasthr iya Times for this novel idea address by the chief guest, applause from the elite sangeetham !! which is sure to spin Mr. Ramesh Praba, was aud ience, wh ich had The chief guest of the K a l a i m a m a n i s a n d i n d e e d i n s p i r i n g , thoroughly enjoyed every evening was Mr. Ramesh Sangeetha Kalanidhis into motivating, encouraging, minute of the proceedings Prabha, a management t h e m u s i c w o r l d o f informative and humorous. that evening. graduate f rom a top tomorrow. Being a highly qualified One cannot conclude the business school of the “Rain or storm, there was person, he could advise the c o m m e n t a r y o n t h i s country and the M.D. of the music every Sunday at the younger generation on the function without mentioning successful and popular Kanchi Matam….” he said absolute importance of t h e c h i c , c o n f i d e n t Galaxy Communications and gave full marks to extra curricular activities in compeering by the all that has left its footprints in Vadapalani Times and addition to high marks in rounder Sree Chitra. the world of Television and Rasigapriya for spotting school and college. Being a advertisements, and no y o u n g t a l e n t s a n d successful man in the field Rajeemaniwonder, every one gathered motivating them in this of advertisements, he could there that day thought ….. direction. “By this, they convey convincingly the “yehi hai right choice, ensured a bright future for great openings musical baby…” the national treasure of our talents can give to the The guest of honour was country,” he said. individual, in these modern M.V. Chandrasekar of Then, it was now Mrs Rajee days. “Musical talents not K a n c h i M a t a m . T h e Mani's turn to felicitate Mr. only boost your future but function started at 7 pm Vijaykumar, Mrs Lalitha can be highly remunerative sharp with a prayer song on S u b r a m a n i a n o f even during student days,” Sri Ganesha, the remover Rasigapriya School of he said. of all obstacles, by Sree Music and Chandrasekar As a responsible citizen, he