The document discusses the activities and achievements of the Srinivas Youngmen’s Association (SYMA) in February 2012, highlighting the successful organization of the Child Fest, where children showcased their talents. It also touches on various social issues, including the Indian cricket team's struggles and a diplomatic incident involving Italian mariners. Additionally, it mentions the establishment of a corpus fund for long-term activities, acknowledgments of donations, and ongoing efforts to maintain public conveniences in Chennai.

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Regd.No. 200/6
Estd : 1977 VOICE OF SRINIVAS YOUNGMEN’S ASSOCIATION
Volume 11 Issue 2 FEBRUARY - 2012 Syma Website : www.syma.in
From Editor’s Desk . . . For internal circulation only
SYMA cares for the Society and for the children. Every year we have been conducting Child Fest providing a
platform for children to showcase their special talents. Over the years, Child Fest has grown big. This year Gold
Winner SYMA Childfest was organized on two days at two different venues and was a grand success. A detailed
report on the Child Fest appears inside in page No.3
The educational year is drawing to a close and soon students would be appearing for their examinations. We
conducted a Special pooja for +2 students of our SYMA Growth. More details will be published in our next issue.
Down under the struggle of Indian team continues and fissures seem to have developed inside the Team. Some
strong measures are needed to be taken –soon IPL 2012 would be on and most of our debacle at England and
Australia would tend to be forgotten. The 2012 Summer Olympic would be held in London in July. In the last
version at Beijing in 2008, Abhinav Bindra won Gold in 10M airrifle shooting and the Indian contingent won 2
more bronze medals, making it easily the best performance in Olympics. Still it was sad for it was the first time since
1928 that Indian Men’s hockey team failed to qualify. The present tournament being held in Delhi is touted as
passport to Olympics and we hope that India does well here and then in Olympics.
In the Arabian Sea, closer to Kerala coast, Italian Mariners aboard an Italian flagged tanker Enrica Lexie fired at
and killed 2 Indian fishermen which is creating diplomatic tussle. How can there by any diplomatic immunity and
would jurisdictional issues get better of just compensation present a murky picture. Bomb blasts are nothing new
but the bombing in New Delhi fixed to the car of Isreali defence attaché has a newer perspective of war elsewhere
spilling on Indian soil. For long, flying on air, remained an elusive dream for the Indian middle class. The dawn of
this century and a decade earlier, things changed much and slowly more were on air as more airlines facilitated low
cost flying. Sadly all is not well and everyday there is news of the growing woes of Kingfisher Airlines, which does
not augur well.
In promoting hygiene and keeping the environ cleaner, we have been maintaining the Public Convenience
opposite to Temple tank at Triplicane. This was started in 2002 under the CM’s Welfare scheme instituted by
Hon’ble CM Ms J Jayalalithaa. Recently, lot of renovation has taken place and details of all those who have been
helping us in maintaining this Public Convenience would be published in our next issue.
With regards – S. Sampathkumar.
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a Corpus Fund Scheme. Names of persons who
donate Rs.1 lakh & above to our Corpus Fund
are being etched in the façade of our premises.
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Professional in Video and Still Photography We have 4 of them and this month we
have an addition to the list. We
18/30, North Tank Square Street thankfully acknowledge the donation of
Triplicane, Chennai - 600 005. Sri. A.P. VENUGOPAL to our Corpus
Fund. Thank you So much Sir.
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3. SYMA CHILDFEST 2012
conducting Childfest outside the precincts of Triplicane. On
Child Fest Day 1 : 22nd Jan 2012 – Drawing the day of Competition i.e., 29th Jan 2012, – SYMA volunteers
Competitions and Soundarya Rathnamala were at the venue much before
We have been conducting Child Fest for more than one the inauguration. ferried to the venue in a van arranged. The
and half a decade now. From last year, the venue has been venue looked colourful and the day started quite early. At
the majestic inspiring red walls of the famous The Hindu around 0900 am, the day’s events was inaugurated by Mr M.
Higher Secondary School, 149 Big Street, Triplicane – a great Balasubramanyam of Mangal Tirth Estates who expressed his
learning centre which has produced eminent scholars and happiness to be in the midst of SYMA group.
successful personalities, transforming the lives of tens of The First event was Singing of Carnatic songs. The stage at
thousands of people into responsible citizens for the cause Mylapore Fine Arts had been the podium for great singers and
of nature. this time, it was young students of various schools who actively
This year also, the competition was in 6 groups for participated. It was pleasant music to ears. The next event
students ranging from Lkg to 12th standard held at four was Singing of Film songs which had enthusiastic participation.
different time – staggered to ensure that there were no two Culminating the event was the performance by the Judge who
activities at any given time which helped us in crowd sung with ease in both male and female voices enthralling all
management. We had sent neatly designed invitations those present. Alongside, the Quiz preliminary which was a
containing all details in a folder to 200 schools in the city of written round consisting of 20 Questions was held for Group
Chennai. We had kept flexboards advertising the event and A (6thto 9th] and Group B [10th to 12th]. Most of the questions
the schedule. Details were available on our Website. Still were topical and tested the knowledge of the events that
some schools had not informed correct details to the parents, captured headlines in newspapers. At 0100 noon – we had
causing some disappointment to the students. the finals of Quiz – first the A group, followed by Group B.
The Quiz format was the brainchild of Brahma Associates -
At 08:45am, the Programme was inaugurated by Dr P thanks to N Rajaram for the full support extended from Oman.
Balasubramaniam, present Head Master of Hindu High The Quiz was conducted by Yours Truly – the Editor
School and by Mrs Vanmathi, Dy Commissioner, Sri S. Sampathkumar.
Parthasarathi Swami Devasthanam . The programme started
with traditional invocation of Lord and lighting of There was a very popular visitor amongst the audience. It
‘kuthuvilakku’ by the HM Balasubramaniam, Mrs Vanmathi, was Mr. P.W.C.Davidar, I.A.S, Principal Secretary and
Dy Commnr, Smt Prema Krishnamohan – Soundarya Commissioner, Corporation of Chennai. We had earlier
Rathinamala, TJ Ramani – our Treasurer and R Vijaya approached him to be our Chief Guest but he could not accede
raghavan, our Ex President. SYMA & Soundarya to our request owing to a high level meeting. It was indeed a
Rathinamala volunteers and students from Bharat Scouts great gesture on his part to attend the Child Fest and be in our
ensured that everything was according to the plans drawn midst for few minutes. It really raised our spirits.
up earlier. The event was well coordinated by our Secretary Variety of instruments accompanied by performers started
R. Sanjeevi. Special thanks to Raghuraman for manning our pouring in and at 02.30 pm we had the competition ‘Instrument
office room. All the participating children were given prize Fusion’ which was a team event of 4 students per team. It was
and a Certificate commending their participation. We had indeed a great variety. Then came the most colourful
close to 2000 students for dissipating and the cooperation performance of Group Dance – group of 6 forming a team @
of the Hindu School authorities and staff ensured that we 03.30 pm. The crowd was filling in large numbers –
were able to accommodate all the students and provide everywhere one can see painted children and anxious mothers.
proper seats to all of them easily. In the end, the children There were beautifully decorated animals, Various Lords –
and parents left with happiness writ large in their faces. Hanumar, Buddha and more, National leaders like Bharathiyar,
The competition for 9, 10, 11 & 12th was held at the Gandhiji - science equipments and more – yes all beautiful
hall in the 2nd floor; rest were held in the yellow building. children dressed and decorated capturing the attention and
The shamiana covering the play grounds provided good eyes of all. Unlike competitions elsewhere, at SYMA Fancy
shelter against the sweltering heat of Sun and parents really dress competition, there would be no dialogues or recitation
appreciated the care taken by us. The results of the Drawing of verses nor individual parading. Thirumazhisai Kannan
competition were immediately put up on our website which ensured that photos of the well dressed children were taken
attracted thousands of hits. The talent and attitude of today’s and delivered on the spot. There was a huge contingent of
children is so encouraging and many of the drawings made SYMA volunteers readily available to do all chores. The group
us realize the innate talent that is present. We are very of Soundarya Rathnamala took care of the registration
happy that we are able to provide a good platform for formalities and ensured distribution of certificates and gifts to
children showcasing their talent. all participants. Over all, it was a neatly organized colourful
show.
The action then shifted to the other venue – The Mylapore
Fine Arts Club. This was our second successive year of
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4. At 0630 pm, we had the Prize Distribution Function. It SYMA owes its continuance to many good persons and
was a great occasion as our Chief Guest for the evening besides the event sponsors Gold Winner and Media Associates
was Mrs Santha Sheela Nair, IAS (Retd], Vice Chair Person, CR Sridhar, we have the bounden duty to thank many of those
State Planning Commission, Govt. of Tamilnadu. Special without whose help conducting an event of this magnitude would
Guests were Mr Ajay Ratnam, Cine Actor and Mr Dinesh not be possible. Formal Vote of thanks was rendered by our
Karthick, Cricketer. The function started with a prayer. young Secretary R. Sanjeevi. SYMA heartly thanks Gold Winner
Secretary, S. Sampathkumar compered the programme, and CR Sredhar of Media Associates, Mangal Tirth Estates and
welcoming everyone and introducing the Chief Guests. T.A. its director Mr Balasubramanyam, United India Insurance,
Sampathkumar, President spoke on the various activities of Reynolds, Hatsun Food Products & Mr Narasimha Kannan, for
SYMA and on the vision of SYMA, on its growth, and the the assistance. Special thanks are due to our benevolent patron
impact that Child Fest had made in city schools was also Dr K Sridhar, KV Srinivasan and Mr RI Palani for arranging our
touched upon. Special Guests. Special thanks are due to the management of
Hindu Higher Secondary School and Dr P Balasubramaniam
The State Planning Commission constituted in 1971 is
for providing us the venue for our Drawing competition.
the important advisory body recommending on various
Similarly, office bearers of Mylapore Fine Arts and Mr
matters pertaining to development of the State. Mrs Santha
Krishnamurthy of Sri Parthasarathiswami sabha for the MFAC.
Sheela Nair had held various important posts including –
We thank Hindu Downtown for the press coverage. The smooth
Principal Secretary to Govt., Commissioner of Corporation
conduct of the event was due to the members of Soundarya
and Rehabilitation of Tamils in Sri Lanka. She is a person
Rathnamala led by Mrs Prema Krishnamohan and our
with vision and was instrumental in implementation of rain
volunteers. The work of our VP R Seshadri @ Durai stands out
water harvesting across the State, a noble objective which
in arrangement of the prizes. We also thank Mr Chandrasekhar
SYMA also has professed and helped implementation in
of Creative for the web support and Mr Mani & Mr Narayanan
Triplicane. It was a great moment to have such a person as
of Swaraj Graphics for the print support. Special thanks are due
our distinguished Chief Guest and she spoke on the
to Mrs Vasudha Bakthisaran, our voice for answering all calls
importance of planting more saplings which would grow to
relating to the Child Fest (@ 28441078). We also place on record
provide benefits to mankind.
the good work of our Committee Member Mr. Prasad.
Mr Ajay Rathnam is a well known artiste, having acted
The Prize Distribution was a mega event as there were close
over 350 films in 5 languages. He endeared himself with
to 200 prizes and our Chief Guests were kind enough to
his simplicity and friendly behaviour. He has now been in
distribute all the prizes individually which provided great
the field for over 25 years; he was too happy to be in the
happiness to the winners and satisfaction to their parents. Besides
midst of children and spoke nicely to the children. Dinesh
individual winners, the overall ‘School of the Event’ award was
Karthick wields the willow better than speaking; he was
bagged by Dr Guruswami Mudaliar Thondaimandala Thuluva
instrumental in our winning the T20 in 2006 against SA.
Vellalar Melnilai Palli from Kondithope (Dr GMTTV School) by
He has made more than 1000 runs in both Tests and One
virtue of strong performance of their wards in Drawing
dayers and known to be a good glovesman. He inspired
competition. The meeting ended with singing of “National
those children actively drawn to cricket.
Anthem” by all. SYMA thanks you all
Ans : Cricket Law 38: describes Run out. Of the many ways, a batsman may be dismissed when backing up too far before
the delivery stride. When the batsman leaves the popping crease before delivery, the bowler may attempt to run the non-
striker out. This is clearly legal. The earliest of these type of out involved Vinoo Mankad and occurred during India’s tour of
Australia on 13 December 1947 in the second Test at Sydney. Mankad ran out Bill Brown when, in the act of delivering the
ball, he held on to it and whipped the bails off with Brown well out of his crease. After this this type of run out came to be
known as ‘Mankaded’. There have been 4 instances of such outs in Tests and 3 in One dayers which includes : Brian
Luckhurst by Greg Chappell; Grant Flower by Dipak Patel and Peter Kirsten by Kapil Dev. The illustrious Vinoo Mankad took
162 wickets and scored 2109 runs in Tests. At Chennai way back in 1956 against New Zealand he hit 231 in an opening
partnership of 413 with Pankaj Roy which stood as a record for 52 years.
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R. Sanjeevi 9940086026
E-mail : srinivasyoungmensassociation@yahoo.co.in.
Website : www.syma.in
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