ARE WE CELEBRATING MADRAS WEEK IN VACUUM ?

I appreciate Madrasis (Chennaites?) who celebrate the Madras Week with bravado and enthusiasm.

I have been following the Madras Week celebration events during the last few years. I have felt that the celebration is being done in vacuum. I got the same feeling this year too.
Obviously, we are celebrating past Madras and it’s heritage and tradition and not present Chennai or possible future Chennai.

One thing that is very clear is that Madras Week is celebrated by a selected few who belong to upper and middle income group. Those who celebrate are not representative of the present day Chennaites, whom we call as common man.

The celebration is not creating enthusiasm amongst vast section of Chennaites, since there is nothing to celebrate as far as the present Chennai is concerned. As one walks on the road, one cannot but see over flowing sewage, people urinating on the road and half naked drunkards lying on the road. Are we to celebrate this?

Should we confine ourselves just to be proud of the past ? Does such celebration of the past glory have any significance for the present and the future?

It has been lamented that the government of Tamil Nadu is not supporting the Madras Week celebrations. Obviously, recognition is sought for the celebration from the government in principle and some fund support too. The government does not have the face to celebrate the happenings in present Chennai and therefore, it is reluctant to play it’s role in celebrating the past , which would reveal the difference between the past and the present in a glaring manner. Would any government of the day subject itself to such humiliation ?

It is high time that we do not confine ourselves to celebrate the glory of the past Madras for a week and then wait for the next twelve months for the next year’s Madras Week celebration. The enthusiasts should fix target to improve conditions to the level of their ability for the next twelve months , before celebrating the next Madras Week , so that they can celebrate the past and also the present to some extent next year.

Have we planned any purposive programmes for the next twelve months, particularly involving the youth and poor and deprived section of the society , who are as much residents of Chennai as those presently celebrating Madras Week.

N.S.Venkataraman
Nandini Voice for The Deprived
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Dear sir, I could not able to give my reply due to the reply space showing lot of instructions. pls be guided. On 10 September 2017 at 14:27, N.S. Venkataraman < support@localcirclesmail.com> wrote: > more  
Chennai name was given by DMK and the same was retained by AIADMK. The culture of names change for Votes should be checked. Bengalore was changed to Benguluru. Culcutta was Changed to Kolkatta. Bobmay was Changed to Mumbai. In Literature the spcifity of Vocabulary (Spelling) was omitted in the case of names. Why this illeterate methods is being followed by the Vote baggers 9Political Parties) The Voters (Citizen) should be made aware by the elite members of the Society. Why the Name India was not chnaged to any other slant or is there any plan is not known. The naming culture should be left to natural development. Political paties (DMK, AIADK etc) are of shrt duration Parties . Whereas East India Company activities of Age Old of About 150 Years which used the name Madras. more  
THE MADRAS RAILWAY (1849) By a Madrasi as a Madrasi and to a Madrasi This is a simple commoner’s book for a commoner in 250 pages small and elegantly printed. Will share to a Madrasi for just Rs 100 This book is a Madrasi Book and will be loved by Madrasis.! This book will make today’s Chennaites proud. Forewords from the Chairman, Rly Bd Mr AK Mital and the Member Mech Mr Hemant Kumar along with Subramhanyan, Addl Member/ Finance, Rly Bd makes the author proud at 94. This book can be read in today’s functioning of the Railway under Departments like Commercial, Engineering, Mechanical, Personnel, Operating, Stores, Medical (P/9 -11). The names of those British Officers who worked for the Madras Railway were printed with their pictures and the pictures of today’s railway officers are also printed side by side.(P/27 to 38) In 1856, and this is worth million dollars. This book tells how the natives of MADRAS got appointments (P/141). Policeman was paid Rs 5 (P/62) , salary for the Railwayman was just Rs 15 (P/143) and this small salary was fixed by the Britishers as the railway fare was also one anna only (P/112). Speed of the train was just 20 miles per hour (P/114) . Old timers will tell they know, first, second and third class in the Railway but there was a ‘Cooly Class” or the Fourth Class in 1856 (P/167) Today every Madrasi should be proud to read the names of Britishers who fought with the East India Company and brought the “Madras Railway” (P/39) and the Railwaymen should be proud to recall the names of the officers who worked for the Madras Railway.(P/40). Today’s names like Spur Tank Road, Chittoor, Arni, Conjeevaram find a place in the survey made for the Madras Rly and we are proud to recall these names now. The Madras Rly took shape by different legal documents and all the contractual documents of 1852, 1855, 1858, 1860 find a place for the legal practitioners to be benefitted. Read how Perambur, Villivakkam(Red Hills), Avadi, Tiruvellore, Sholingur were built in 1856. Read more about Spencer & Co offering break-fast at Rs 2 and dinner at Rs2.8, (P/191) first time windows were fitted in carriages in 1894 with glass for rain,(P/193) Medical Officers were paid Rs 500,General Managers Rs 2000(P/195,200), General Manager’s work was not satisfactory and his bonus was refused. and today it is a matter of right whether you work or shirk (P/194)! Stores Department of 1890, Railway Schools of 1894 (P/203). Something about the past Indian railway officer example of Nilakantan the way he worked ‘no non-sense attitude/.(P/204). Lots of pictures of Railwaymen of today like Ashwini Lohani, AK Mital, Kuppan CME, Rail Business Mr Vijay Raina, GM adorn this book at the end. Author:S. Venkatraman, 94, Stores Officer, a railwayman, 19, Karpagam Flats, Canal Bank Rd, Luz, Mylapore, Chennai, 600004, Cell: 9444444865 more  
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