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Earn By Blogging: $9000 A Month From A Board Game?Radio City, Chennai gets hip 'n' happening!
Radio City 91.1 FM, India's Leading Radio Network, has changed its programming in Chennai to cater to the crème de la crème, following the recent change of its frequency to 91.1 FM for uniformity on all its stations across India. Along with this new frequency, Southern Film Hearthrob and Superstar 'Madhavan' today unveiled a fresh new Fixed Point Chart (FPC) with loads of innovative shows, more interviews with hot stars, more contests & prizes, and definitely a lot more English music.
Radio City 91.1 FM has always believed in providing its listeners with the best. Radio City 91.1 FM, Chennai, which earlier used to operate on the frequency -105.8 FM and predominantly had Tamil content, has undergone a revamp and will now air content, predominantly in English, along with a right mix of Hindi and premium Tamil music. The content is tailored to suit the day part and audience who specifically tunes in and will follow the mood map concept, which is followed by Radio City across all its stations. Listeners can now look forward to start their day with Radio City 91.1 FM, the only station to air western classical, fusion and world music on 'Morning Raga' from 5 am to 7 am in the early morning band. Additionally, there will be dedicated housewife and student time-bands specifically scheduled in the FPC.
Targeted at the discerning music lovers cutting across premium audiences comprising of students, housewives and working men, the innovative & fresh Radio City 91.1 FM programming is an outcome of an in-depth study undertaken by the station to understand the listening habits and tastes of Chennai-ites. The findings confirmed that there is definitely a large audience just waiting to listen to the Radio City kind of programming mix. Radio City therefore has very clearly filled a huge need-gap in Chennai, where every other FM station plays Tamil music predominantly.
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Regressive separation of the sexes?
A Shocking Report by TIMES NOW A must read article for all the enggneering student.  |
| A TIMES NOW spy cam surveys the canteen of an engineering college in Chennai, where boys' and girls' area of eating and even walking are strictly separated by bold labels and metal bars |
In 21st century India, if you thought we had done away with archaic ideas about men and women, thing again. TIMES NOW has found that certain colleges in Chennai have forced male and female students to keep out of each other's way, so much so that students cannot even walk on the same roads. This is all ostensibly in the name of Tamil culture.
The outskirts of Chennai are home to scores of engineering colleges where discipline it appears is an obsession - sometimes even bordering on the ridiculous. Some rules even bar students from talking to the opposite sex.
TIMES NOW decided to take its cameras inside some of these campuses to expose the double standards.
What we found was not only shocking, but disturbing: Metal barricades had been put up in buses to ensure that girls sat away from boys. While girls sat in the front rows, boys sat behind them. We also found exclusive dining areas for members of the two sexes. Interestingly the 'Non-Veg' section was synonymous with the 'Gents only' areas.
Our first stop was at an engineering college around 30 kms away from Chennai. Here, we saw rows of boys and girls walking past us with not one student daring to glance at each other. As we continued our survey of the sprawling campus it was quite evident that even a casual chat with the opposite sex was objectionable.
In case a student is 'tempted' - men who are simply called the 'Squad' - hired by college managements to enforce discipline - will make sure you steer away from it.
TIMES NOW queries to students found these responses:
Question: Did you see the two girls who walked in front of us?
Answer: We are not even supposed to look at them, and even they are not supposed to. They are not supposed to walk through this path which is meant only for boys. We can't go to the path meant for girls.
Grounded!
Here are some of the stringent rules in the book for these hapless students - talking to a person of the opposite sex could attract punishments with fines ranging from Rs 1000 to 1500, result in suspension or even a semester drop in some cases.
TIMES NOW's next stop was another engineering college located next door and the story there was no different.
Question: Can't you talk on campus?
Answer: If anyone saw, you will be in danger. They will make you do an OD
Question: What is an OD?
Answer: OD means that we have to stand outside office for 15 days to a month
In yet another college it seemed things were getting from bad to worse - here we even found staircases clearly labelled 'Gents only', and 'Ladies only'. When we asked college authorities for an explanation, the Director said the rules were "only for for convenience".
"This is for the purpose of safety. We expect girls to be more careful, especially when they climb up or climb down. The kind of dress they wear - churidars and things - might get stamped on and they might trip," explained Vel R S College of Management Director, Dr Koteeswaran.
You may find this explanation bizzare, but for one teenageer in an engineering college, who had to forego a year for shaking hands with a girl, these are more than just an eccentric rule.
He recalls the 'crime': "I just shook hands with a girl. It was her birthday and I wished her. A bus driver saw it and complained to the director. They harassed me by asking many questions. I got suspended for one and a half months. My attendance obviously suffered, and they dropped me for a year. They were harassing my parents. I have seen my mom cry only twice before. This was third time."
While such incidents are shocking - for the self proclaimed moral police it is a normal way of life that has to be preserved at all costs.
Says Jeppiar, chairman of the Jeppiar Educational Trust, "This is Tamil culture. This is education and they should concentrate only on that. If we are not strict then at least 40 percent will stray. We allow them to talk during studies, discussions and all that, but not outside the classrooms, at bus stands and other places. We are strict."
What started off as a one-off case of imposing discipline in some colleges, has spread like wild fire across deemed universities in Chennai where rules are regressive and innocent students are at the receiving end.
With no uniform codes binding them, deemed universities are on a spree making their own laws.
The crux of the problem is that, though they have been criticised and many students have rebelled, no one with any real authority has ever said 'enough is enough'.
(By Dhanya Rajendran)
Procyan a mild sucess........
EEE dept symposium at our coll(AIHT) met with a tragedy at last.I dont know what was the mistake they did.But nobody turned up to the coll till 10.After that at 10.15 some people have started coming from other college.Almost 50 registrations have been done i suppose.The events were conducted to those 50 people and prize were distributed among them.I met two guy coming from other college.I was stuned on them saying that they were from thirunelveli.
EEE symposium rocked
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Our guys really Rocked...........Awsome guys hats off to you..
Hi guys there is a great news for AIHTIANS that many of us dint know I just wanna u all know this matter.Our guys have got selected in saarang veriety show. The main point is the only college got selected from chennai is AIHT.Really great guys hats off to you all....i wish they win the prizes over there.The script was about a time machine and a scientist .The scientist has an assistant and he does some scams out in the scientist`s dream machine.So some thing goes wrong and the whole machine misled the man kind.See the rest of the play in the saarang jan 27.
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Saarang-08 going to rock chennai by the end of the January
www.saarang.orgIam eagerly awaitin for the rocking event at IIT chennai.So IIT is going to become a open place for all(like market).As we all know that the very word generates excitement among youth across the country. Drawing more than 20,000 people in the 18-35 age group, Saarang sets the standard as far as cultural festivals go.
This annual festival conducted by IIT-Madras and held on its vast and serene campus is forgotten by none who attend it, whether they participate or come to witness the spectacle. Saarang is conducted during the final week of January, and made possible every year by the determined efforts of hundreds of students.
With an expected footfall of 50,000, this five-day festival is the traditional meeting place for the young and those young at heart. Saarang is characterised with the days jam-packed with events and competitions, which present one with an opportunity to showcase their talent in front of vast crowds. Be it with events like Dramatics and Just A Minute or musical displays such as Decibels, Saarang has the crowds asking for more. And the crowning glory of the festival takes place every night, under the title of Professional Shows, wherein the best professional artistes from India and abroad perform.
Saarang 2008 promises to be bigger and better than ever before this time around. With new events including a Freestyle Dance Competition and Queen of Sheeba, as well as an array of workshops to suit all tastes, Saarang reaches out to a larger section of the crowd. To top it all, prize money for group events has been increased substantially.
It’s time for another Saarang. Welcome to Saarang 2008.
To addup one more technical topic to it is SAARANG is meant so famous among the guys in chennai for sight seeing.Awesome girls from all over india arrive at a single spot.Who can miss the chance come on Guys CHEER up we shall start enjoing.
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Tata Nano: The Paradox of Global Innovation
The launch on January 10, 2008, of the US$2,500.00 Tata Nano “People’s Car” is a watershed moment in Indian industrial achievement, no less significant from India’s perspective than the 2004 launch of the EDUSAT educational services satellite.
It is the culmination of the efforts of India’s most powerful industrialists to compete for market opportunities on their home turf, opportunities that Western multinationals rushed to take advantage of as soon as India’s economy was forced open towards the end of the Clinton presidency—after a decade or more of steady and severe pressure from U.S. trade representatives.
Western companies have worked in concert with Indian trade and commerce regulations via joint ventures and, more recently, by building significant industrial capacity within India itself (Audi is building a series of cars in India, including a new SUV, and the Audi A4 will come soon, while Nokia is planning to make mobile phones for Asian markets from India as well).
The Tata Nano points to a significant harnessing of technology, manufacturing know-how, customer insight and, to borrow an old-fashioned term, “appropriate technology” (joints in the car aren’t welded, they’re held together with adhesives).
Now to the tricky bit. What is the impact of the so-called “People’s Car” on the thinking of environmentalists in the West? Or in India for that matter?
The standard response of environmentalists in India and the West alike has been to decry the future emissions impact of hundreds of thousands of new Tata Nano’s on India’s famously congested, potholed roads, which will for all intents and purposes make it more difficult to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to more manageable levels (if the word “manageable” can be used given the stakes).
Journalist Hamish McRae of The Independent argued in an op-ed piece that [the Tata Nano] is a “great step forward for the burgeoning Indian middle class, bringing safe, affordable personal transport to families.” And: “…while more cars on the planet will mean more fuel consumed, this small, efficient vehicle represents a more sustainable environmental path than that chosen by the other great, growing economic power, China.”
A more sustainable environmental path than…China? From a serious environmentalist’s perspective, that’s like saying “a more sustainable directional path than the Titanic,” but I digress.
While noting that the West has a profound responsibility to reduce its per capita emissions (since emerging economies’ per capita emissions are much lower), as Terry Root, senior fellow at Stanford’s Center for Environmental Science and Policy (and a member of the IPCC focused on biodiversity), remarked in an interview, “A power plant in Beijing is [from the biosphere’s perspective] the same as a power plant in Boston.”
Which leads us to the inescapable fact that a Tata Nano in Chennai is, from the biosphere’s perspective, similar to a Toyota Corolla in Vancouver.
From an engineering perspective, however, it is also a significant achievement and a point of pride for many Indians. It is a design solution for the challenge of bringing safer transport to Indian families who might otherwise travel by less safe means (two-wheeled scooters or three-wheeled auto-rickshaws).
Contrary to Tata CEO Ratan Tata’s assertion that the Nano will ensure that the Indian family of four does not ride through city streets on a two-wheeled scooter, it is more likely the Nano and its ilk will in a majority of cases simply be added to the legions of motor scooters and other vehicles on Indian roads. The Nano will not replace two-wheeled scooters because Tata’s market research has surely indicated that not every family will be able to afford the jump from a motor scooter to their entry-level vehicle. India's already crowded and chaotic streets will simply absorb a river of Nanos.
So the Tata Nano, or cars like it from competing automakers (a rush of competition is about to ensue), may go down in history as contributing to both a more rapid decline of the quality of life in India’s congested and polluted cities and an increase in emissions just as we're learning how severe our climate change problem is and how little time remains to solve it
I feel like celebrating with the Nano’s engineers and designers for their success—and crying about the impact of growing vehicle ownership on the environment…in India or China or right here at home.
Such is the paradox of global innovation.About Me
My name is Nivash doing my engg in chennai.I was thinking about wat to blog and suddenly i got an idea of blogging about chennai which is the real happening chennai in india.