Chennai Times

On the way to office this morning saw two hoardings side by side that made strange reading: 'Infrastructure will change India' said the first one (HDFC Infrastructure Fund, I think) and ' to change exchange ' said the mobile shop ad. bang next to it!!! What are being exchanged in the name of infrastructure in India!!

Mark the calender with these events: 1. Launch of ReStore - a group of people coming together to promote more environmental friendly ways of living in this mad city. 2. Exhibition of Kumbam terracota arts and crafts at Kalakshetra. both announcements below. --------------------------------------------------------------- eStore health * livelihoods * nature We are delighted to invite you to the Launch of reStore with a Celebration of Traditional Foods at *Shastri Nagar Welfare Association Hall *(Tel: 2446 0822) 18/11 5th Cross St., Shastri Nagar Adyar Chennai 600 020 On *Saturday, February 16th 2008, 5.30 to 8.00pm* *Please contact reStore for your dinner passes* http://restore.org.in Tel: 94441 66779 or 98844 09566 reStore ( http://restore.org.in ) is a new community organization of people interested in activities that promote healthy living, sustainable livelihoods and conservation of nature. reStore is to be inaugurated on Saturday February 16th 2008 at a function in Adyar. The la...

One of the grand old men of scouting in Chennai died recently. Venkatraman, called thatha Venkatraman by almost everyone was one of the leading lights of the movement in the city. He was closely associated with the south madras district scouting movement, children garden school and the besant camping centre that is part of the theosophical society in adyar. An energetic and warm gentleman who was rather sharp with his comments, he left everyone whom he interacted with a sense of care. I grew in scouting days, though never directly under his tutelage. He would visit us all the way from Sholinganallur farm of CG to Madhavaram in his small phut-phut TVS50 those days when chennai had the same roads and lesser traffic. He cared much for his children and ensured that he got to know them as much as possible and always used to enquire about everyone he though you know about when he met you. A scout is supposed to be many things, cheerfulness, care and concern chief among them. Thatha Venkatram...

Interesting findings from discussion on hoardings in another on-line group! This is what the consumer law says regarding obscene hoardings. 4. Posters and hoardings containing obscenity and vulgarity attracts Section 6 of the Indecent Representation of Women( Prohibition) Act, 1986. Any depiction of the figure of a woman; her form or body or any part thereof in such way as to have the effect of being indecent, or derogatory to, or denigrating women, or is likely to corrupt the public morality amounts to Indecent Representation of Women. ( Complaints should be given directly to the Police. ) 5. Section 292 of IPC directly deals with any obscene poster, book, pamphlet, paper, writing, drawing, painting, representation, figure etc. The material shall be deemed to be obscene if it is lascivious or appeals to the prurient interest or if its effect...