TNMSC also expanded as Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation Ltd, is a State Government initiative to ensure continued supply of live saving drugs and pharmaceuticals to all Government run hospitals. They are engaged in procurement, storage and supply of 268 drugs and medicines, 84 suture items and 63 surgical items to govt run hospitals and [...]
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7 Sep
Where is this place?
Please identify the place / premise. The quiz is open till Sunday evening (13/9/09).
Clues :
1) Obviously its in Chennai
2) Some name is visible in parts (one in Tamil & two in English)
3) Its a large expanse of greenery in the heart of the city
8 May
Quiz time
Please find out what is this? either name the building or the language to get full marks. Answer on Sunday.
1 Nov
Books, theme day
The Display Area (!?) in a neighbourhood Books, Periodicals & magazine stall (aka Petti kadai), which sells not only the Periodicals, Books & Magazines, but also short snacks, water (yes we’re from Chennai & we buy water), Banana etc.
What you see is the advert’s of these weekly / Monthly magazines on display at this shop.
Check [...]
1 Sep
Theme day – Sister city
According to the webworld Frankfurt or Denver or Volgograd are the sister cities of Chennai. But was unable to get a picture from either of these cities, hence a close match from Berlin.
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church of Berlin. Originally built during 1890s, was damaged during the bombings in 1943 and was again rebuilt between 1959 [...]
22 Jul
Why?
Inspite of being healthy, fit & ready for earning a living, i’m sad on seeing such people resorting to taking alms in the disguise of helplessness. My earlier post is still fresh in my memory on the enterprise certain people display to avoid resorting to taking alms/ begging on streets.
As a policy i don’t offer [...]
13 Jul
Ambitions & Photo exhibition – 2
Continuing the pictures of Infocus 2008 by the students of Ambitions4.
11 Jul
Haggle aka Autorickshaws
Some of you might recall my earlier post on the Autorickshaws (Auto’s in short) in Chennai. I had the opportunity to catch a live scene of a passenger and the driver haggling over the price before she boards.
Beware and keep your management techniques ready for an hard negotiationwhen hiring these guys in Chennai aka Madras.
30 Jun
Bags Bags Bags …. everywhere
With the schools reopened, the bag sales will be brisk for some more time. As you can see the shop’s merchandise as changed fully to school goers related stuff like school bags, shoes etc. Though cluttered looking, i still like the way its displayed and inviting for any kid to check them out first for [...]
29 Jun
Sri Ramakrishna mission school
Sri Ramakrishna Mission School, has many branches across Chennai and similar schools across India.
They have boys school, a girls school called as Sri RKM Sarada Vidyalaya.
The mission itself is in existence from 1897 onwards founded by Swami Vivekananda. And has 114 centres in India and about 50 centres outside india (in places like Singapore, Durban [...]
28 Jun
SKC in TNagar
T Nagar alias Thiyagaraya Nagar, the retail paradise of chennai, is completely occupied by the large format retailers like Nalli, Kumaran’s, Pothys, Rm KV, Saravana’s, Chennai Silks, GRT, LKS Gold House, Prince jewellery, Metro shoes, Rathna stores, Naidu Hall etc ……
Usman Road, Panagal Park, Pondy bazaar, G N chetty road, Venkatnarayana Road are some of [...]
18 Jun
Light up ….
The High Mast Lamps are now quite common in public areas & main Junctions.
These carry the burden of making up for the loss of lighting after the Billboards have been removed in the city.
15 Jun
The Kirk
The 185 years old and 166 feet tall “The Kirk” as its called, the St. Andrews Kirk is at the Poonamalle High Road near Egmore.
Conceived and executed by Major Thomas Fort de Havilland and Col. James Caldwell, the Kirk is modelled along the lines of St. Martin-in-the-fields, London. The church was consecrated in 1821.
P.s. : [...]
9 Jun
Jackfruit … now open
Earlier i had shown the Jackfruit’s season start, this one shown here is the classic example of the breaking open the fruit and eating it too . The knives need to be coated with oil, so as the milk out of the fruit doesn’t stick and easy to open, once the fruit is open [...]
8 Jun
Vrindhavan ….
“Vrindhavan”, the speciality South Indian Vegetarian restaurant at The New Woodlands Hotel, R K Salai, Chennai. The walls adorn such lovely paintings of Lord Krishna and his chronicles.
The food is heavenly, only sad part is they’ve stopped their popular Tiffin Thaali (a meal with tiffin and not rice/roti).
P.s. : Pls bear with the high noise [...]
7 Jun
Gods by the street corner 3
This Ganesha seems to be in a better premise, by the OMR, near VHS Hospital. The temple has got a fresh coat of paint and well maintained.
I watch quite a few passersby stop for a second and offer a prayer always near these temples on the streets.
6 Jun
Don’t jump …..
The Chennai city traffic police have placed these signs at some arterial road junctions warning the traffic about the penalization of violating the signal/stop line.
The residents sincerly hope the users adhere to the rules by the book & spirit. Any amount of policing doesn’t curb the traffic violations unless we all, the road users abide [...]
5 Jun
Friends 3
The lovely statue at the OMR junction near the NIFT, Tidel Park areas. Well done-up & maintained public areas at this stretch are quite a few, which is refreshing.
4 Jun
Gods by the street corner – 2
The Ganesha temple in front of the Mother & Child hospital, Egmore (opp Prince plaza).
Yes like a fellow commentator said earlier, the God is everywhere …….
3 Jun
Yellow Taxi’s
These Yellow Taxi’s are on the decline, we could now see them only at the Airports pre-paid counters or Central Railway Stations. Everywhere else it’s either a Call Taxi or some Travel agent’s Cab.
These Old Amby’s (Ambassador’s) were once the favourites of visitors to the city, but now due to lack of patronage they are [...]
2 Jun
Courtyard by Marriott
The Old Srilekha Intercontinental, later renovated and relaunched by Marriott as Courtyard hotels. Its on the Anna Salai aka Mount Road, the artery of Chennai. They have a superb service, lively coffee shop called Paprika & well doneup bar called Rhapsody.
Their Sunday brunches used to be popular, not sure if its still on. Also to [...]
1 Jun
Corner Shop
Though its not my corner local shop, i liked this enterprising, “open-in-a-jiffy,Close-in-a-jiffy” shop.
click the link for viewing the other weblogs around the world who are part of the “My Corner Shop” theme day from City Daily Photo…
31 May
Chennai Trade Centre
The “Chennai Trade Centre” is the exhibition space, the much needed space for exhibitions, expos, product launches etc. is in Butt Road. The Road which is one of the 4 roads at Kathipara Junction towards Porur.
It’s in Nandambakkam, and close to the St.Thomas Mount, Airport rear side, MIOT hospitals, L&T office etc.
They also have a [...]
30 May
Balaji Hotels or Oberoi’s or InterContinental or Hyatt
This is an Hotel property from the old grounds of Abbotsbury Hall, which is in this unfinished state for thelast 9-10 years.It was started to be made as Oberoi by Balaji Hotels & later tipped to be an Inter Continental and now its stated to be a Hyatt. Lets wait for the official line …… [...]
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