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By Our Staff Reporter Jammi’s?Senior Mylaporeans may not have forgotten this

brand. But the New Gen may draw a blank.Reason why the promoters of Jammi’s have been

working at re-branding their health business and get-ting the word across too.

Reason why they also want people to know

that Jammi’s is not only about curing

liver diseases. Recently,

Jammi’s Well-ness & Liver-cure Clinic got

going.Jammi’s has

been at the forefront of Ayurveda for nearly

120 years and it wants people to know that it also addresses lifestyle diseases like BP, diabetes, stress, PCOD and other gynaeco-logical problems.

It says it has the added advantage of a manufac-turing facility where it makes its own medicines. This modern factory is an AYUSH-approved facility with GMP (good manufacturing practices) certification.

Dr Anitha Balachander, director of operations says the diseases being cured at Jammi’s Livercure and Wellness Clinic include but are not restricted to fatty liver, cirrhosis of the liver, asthma, migraines, all types of skin diseases including psoriasis and eczema, coughs, colds, fevers of unknown origin, digestive disorders, lactose intolerance, arthritic and other pains, diabetes management, treatment to negate the side-effects of chemotherapy, relief from sinusitis, heartburn, gas, varicose veins and much more.

She says the doctors at Jammi’s Clinic are trained in allopathy and western sciences and have used this knowledge to address various aspects of health and wellness by explaining the science to their patients while treating them with Ayurveda.

Address - Jammi Buildings, 121, Royapettah High Road, Mylapore. Open Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 6 pm. Call 24991439, 9043020764

JAMMI IS NOT JUST ABOUT LIVER CURE. WELLNESS IS ITS FOCUS.This old Mylapore-based brand is keen to inform people of its varied treatments.

Cemeteries are fullPeople will not be given access here on All Souls Day due to pandemic time rulesBy Our Staff Reporter

Quibble Island Cemetery has now got a new coat of paint. It is a stark red on the vintage entry block that resem-bles the facade of a church.

It used to be in a deep blue, changed from the traditional red and many heritage lovers did not like the change in colour.

Fr. Arulraj and his team at San Thome Cathedral oversaw the paint-ing of the block and walls of one of the oldest cemeteries of the city. Here, one section is for Protestants and one for Catholics. However, now that space is at a premium, only members of families whose graves are here can bury their dead in recyclec chambers.

Meanwhile, this past week Chris-tians were informed that they must not visit cemeteries to pray for the dead on All Souls Day which falls on Nov.2 since the state’s pandemic time rules dis-courage such gatherings.

Fr. Y. F. Bosco, par-ish priest of Our Lady of Guidance Church in R. A. Puram, which man-ages the cemetery on St Mary’s Road of the city’s civic body meant for Christians said that GCC officials informed him on phone of the regulation.

“So we are asking families to visit the graves on other days if they need to,” the priest said.

The same rule will apply to the Quibble

Island Cemetery in the MRC Nagar zone and to cemeteries across the city.

The St Marys Road cemetery cam-pus is also packed to the walls with graves and currently, the spaces be-tween graves are dug up to accommo-date the dead.

The church authorities are seeking a new plot of land to bury the dead. Fr Bosco says letters have been writ-ten to the city’s civic body, the head of minorities department and others on this issue.

The new look of Quibble Island Cemetery

Workers cleaning the cemetery campus on St. Mary’s Road

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By S. Prabhu 57 year old V. K. Rangarajan Bhattar, a priest at

Sri Vedantha Desikar Srinivasa Perumal Temple, has received a doctorate award for his social service from the US-headquartered Global Human Peace Univer-sity in recognition for his social work over two decades in vil-lages around Maduran-takam.

In 1998, Ranga-rajan Bhattar, who also served as a priest at the historical Eri Kaatha Rama Temple in Madurantakam for over a decade, began creating Self Help Groups that focused on helping school dropouts get back to school.

He also focused on improving the medical facilities in these villages.

Later he helped agri labourers with farming sup-port and secured funding for them from NABARD and nationalized banks.

During the pandemic, he was involved in organiz-ing food as well as rice, dhal and veggies for people in 50 villages.

The doctorate was presented to him jointly by Global Human Peace University and Bharat Sevak Samaj at an event held in Pondicherry.

Temple priest gets doctoratefor social service

Boys who reside in the Marina kuppams amuse themselves in the sea. Creatively.

They make use of the disposed thermocol boxes that fish hawkers use to store fish, to float and have some fun in the waters. Photo: Madhan Kumar/ MT

Baywatch!

The procession of the golden chariot at the Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple was re-launched last week after a break of close to two years.

The booking of this ‘ther’ had been stopped at the start of the pandemic in March last year. HR & CE minister P. K. Sekarbabu was present for the event.

E. Venkatasubramanian Shivachariar said that this now paves the way for devotees to book the golden chariot procession once again.

By paying cash of Rs. 1501 at the temple’s ticket counter, devotees can book for the golden chariot procession. These will not take place on Pradosham, Krithigai and Pournami days in the month.

Gold chariot rolls again at Sri Kapali Temple

Sanjay Subrahmanyan’s first live concertafter 18 monthsBy Our Staff Reporter

Popular Carnatic music vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyan is to perform live on October 30 at a new space in Alwarpet. The space is called Medai.

This will be Sanjay’s first live concert after some 18 months, the break taken due to pandemic conditions. And we now learn that all tickets have been sold - the space can take some 75 guests.

This is a ticketed show, on a 3rd floor space, with the host stating that a lift is available only till the 2nd floor.

For details – https://insider.in/sanjay-subrahmanyan-live-medai-oct30-2021/event.

Venue address – Medai, 1st Cross St., Co-operative Colony, Sri Ram Nagar, Alwarpet.

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Aavin has been quick to start sales of Deepavali sweets at all its major stores and this includes the ones in Mylapore zone.

Last week, the Aavin store on C. P. Ramaswamy Road in Alwarpet displayed a range of sweets – from Katju Katli to Coffee Milk to Stuffed Motti Pak, all milk based sweets, all neatly packed in boxes which also make for compact gifts.

To drive sales, the store has a salesperson sitting outside with a sample of its sweets on display here.

Staff said all major Aavin outlets are selling these sweets now.

Aavin’s sale of sweetsfor Deepavali

By Our Staff Reporter

Brackishwater aquaculture scientists as well as inland fisher folks on the Adyar estuarine zone would like the state PWD department to clear the sand bar at the mouth of the Adyar river round the year and allow fish and crabs to breed well in the backwaters here.

The focus of the issue is in the zone south and west of Srinivasapuram where the river enters the sea and some part of it flows back towards Pattinapakkam.

Some time ago, when the Adyar Poonga project work started in this zone, the sand bar was cleared regularly and this allowed scientists to set in motion some experi-ments here.

These are scientists from CIBA ( Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquacultrure) whose campus hugs the backwaters here. They set up a few fish pens to grow a few types of fish and crab and the results, they say, were positive.

Local fisherfolks were allowed to grow the breeding and growth here but once the sand bar remained closed, the fish began to die.

One CIBA scientist says even though pollutants re-main in this backwater zone, constant flow of seawater allows great breeding and that is why the PWD needs to clear the sand bar periodically.

For now, CIBA has backed off from this project and al-lows a few fisherfolk to make the best of the fish pens that lie behind the CIBA campus.

Scientists, fisherfolk want PWD to clear sand bar at river-sea mouthThey say this will promote inland fish growth in Pattinapakkam

THIS SMALL PLACE IN R. A. PURAM IS MAKING DEEPAVALI SWEETSTHAT SELL WELL LOCALLYBy Our Staff Reporter

Maniraju has his hands full, never mind that they carry a faint flavour of kaju.

This owner of Deepam Sweets in R. A. Puram and his team is working over-time to make sweets and savouries for the Deepavali festival.

He is excited about the new special – Karuppati Mysore Pak, made from palm jaggery sourced from the deep south. It is priced at about Rs.480 a kilo.

“With many people avoiding sugar, this sweet is selling well. People are coming back to order more,” he says as a new day dawns and kaju katli is being

prepared in this small space located in the Chennai Corporation Complex on 3rd Cross Road.

Though a kilo of kaju katli is priced at Rs.900 plus, the order for this is

topping. “I have an order for 15 kilos of the Katli for festival delivery,” says the excited Maniraju who began this venture last festival season even as the pandemic was slowing down.

“Business is not great but it is going good now,” says the man who has been running the Deepam Hotel next door for some 10 years now, a decent place for a quick south Indian tiffin.

Besides the Kaju Katli, the Bom-bay ladoos are very popular here and in savouries, Madras Mixture and kai murukku.

“We make the savouries at a Mylapore place,” he says.

Most of Deepam’s clients are from the R A Puram area and home delivery is arranged too. You can also also stop by at the shop and pack whatever fancies you.

Call Deepam Sweets at 9444130312.

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WOMEN RUN THIS NEW SEAFOOD JOINTOFF THE MARINAMarina Loop Road is a hub for diners who like a fish curry-rice combo and prawn thokku

By Kavitha Benni

The seafood hawker stalls business located off the Marina is growing. Last week, the colourful, well-lit signboard of Chennai Mess went up at the south end of Marina Loop Road.

And an additional board said, proudly - Meenava Pengal Unavagam.

This new food joint will now compete with the 10 others that dot the west side of the road.

Selvi is the person behind this busi-ness and she is hands-on. Selvi dropped out of school in Class 9 and has flirted with local politics, even applying for a ticket in the past in elections to the civic body.

She says she worked on the food busi-ness idea after women she knew kept coming to her for jobs last year when the pandemic was at its peak and all these women lost their jobs and there wasn’t much in their purses.

“I saw the market for seafood and since I also like cooking I decided to set up shop,” says Selvi.

She promises that the seafood her place offers is fresh, sourcing it from

fishers on the other side of the road as well as getting stock from markets like Kasimedu and Chintadripet. In the week since Chennai Mess opened, the prawn dishes and fish curry have moved fast.

Selvi says she employed a few women who were jobless and reside in the Srinivasapuram and Mul-lima Nagar kappams and it so happened that her team are all women and that it may well remain this way if the business clicks.

A few hands wash and ready the vessels and the plates, a few are in charge of cooking and one handles the serving and parcels.

Taking the cue from compet-ing seafood joints on this side, Selvi has also created a dining space with tables and chairs.

This is because families and groups of men have become regular diners at these seafood joints and they want to sit down and enjoy a meal which offers a variety of seafood.

Selvi says Chennai Mess will be open from about noon till late evening. “There is competition and I can see it around me so we must offer good food,” says Selvi as her team prepares to receive diners for lunch.

Such has been the popularity of these seafood joints, with one place putting out a video of actor Sethupathi dropping in to sample the food while shooting closeby that the days of just salesmen, auto drivers and Kuppam youths dining here are of the past. All the joints are packed for lunch and past dusk.

On Sundays, you will see families dining here at lunch time and visitors to the Marina have a quick bite at dusk, while packing food for home.

By Our Staff Reporter

For many many weeks now, civic work has been going on from the San Thome High School end to the Tholkap-pia Poonga ( Adyar Poonga ) end but it has been so in fits and starts.

This is causing traffic jams on this busy high road, posing dangers to pedestrians and if delayed will not handle the monsoon waters for which new drains have been constructed.

The San Thome High Road, the section between Kuy-il Thottam and Lazarus Church Road has always flooded after a steady spell of rain, with the old drains unable to take the load and sewage polluting the flood waters.

This issue seems to have been addressed now with new drains being construxcted but this work is still incomplete and is going on in fits and starts.

On the section from Pattinapakkam junction to the Jesus Calls junction, not only have broad pavements and large drains been laid, there are also cement-based lines alongside the pavement edges to drain quickly the rainwater.

Here too, a few workers are seen at work, again work-ing in fits and starts.

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Drains, pavement work in San Thome, R. A. Puramis on at slow paceWill they be useful this monsoon?