Prabanjan Padaippulagam - Book Discussion Program at Sahitya Akademi

The Book Discussion program for the book "Prabanjan Padaippulagam" written by the Author Magaranthan got held at Sahitya Akademi on 14/06/2018 evening at 5.30 p.m.

The Book was appraised by Mr. Durai Seenisami who is a retired professor from Thanjavur Tamil University.

Mr. Durai Seenisami - Retired from Thanjavur Tamil University

Mr. Magaranthan - Author of Prabanjan Padaippulagam, Also the P.R.O. at the Puducherry Government

The discussion program appraised the book, which in turn is itself is an appreciation of some of the notable works of the prominent Tamil Writer Thiru. Prabanjan.

The function also had Thiru Azhagiya Singer of Virutcham Magazine and many prominent writers.

The Book got released through Sahitya Akademi. Mr.Magaranthan shared his experience of publishing his book through Sahitya Akademi. He also expressed his gratitude to Sahitya Akademi for publishing his work.

He also gave an information that the original manuscript was of length 600 pages. The Manuscript got edited and converted to a book of 250 pages.

Some of the other writers also spoke on their views towards Mr. Prabanjan. An authenticated information was that Author Prabanjan got recently honoured by the Tamil nadu government with a cash award of Rs.10 lakhs.

Hence, the authors expressed their happiness that he was given a right recognition.

My experiences @ the Event:

I had a good introduction with some of the writers. Following are the photographs of some of the memorable moments.

With Thiru Magaranthan - Author of the Book

With Thiru Durai Seenisami - Retd. Thanjavur Tamil University

with Thiru Azhagiya Singer and others

------Happy writing and Happy reading my dear friends ----- Bharath Dhanasekaran

Thirumullaivoyal – Easwaran Koil street in worst condition - A Challenge for Real Estate Buyers:

Thirumullaivoyal – Easwaran Koil street in worst condition -  A Challenge for Real Estate Buyers:

The following pictures shows the Easwaran Koil street of Thirumullaivoyal in Chennai.

We can see that the road is filled with broken pieces of hard stones. This gives an irritating experience to the people who pass through this route by their bikes and cars. This road is not maintained for more than 3 years.

The local users’ feedback says that the life of their vehicle tyres are reducing drastically. This road also increases the vehicle operating cost to the users.

The silence of the local bodies and authorities has to be broken in this case. Somebody should take necessary steps to lay a new pavement in good condition. The location map of the same road is shown below.

Thirumullaivoyal – Easwaran Koil Street

This bad road condition also makes a hasty feeling for the real estate buyers in this area as this is one of the entry street to the northern parts of Thirumullaivoyal. Hence many property seekers who inspect the sites of the Thirumullaivoyal properties reject the proposals on seeing this bad road condition. Hence the economics of this location is not able to grow. Concerned authorities are requested to improvise the approach roads as soon as possible so that, the economic growth happens in Thirumullaivoyal.

A Possible hazard to the Road Abutting properties along the alignment of Chennai’s Underground Metro Rail:

A Possible hazard to the Road Abutting properties along the alignment of Chennai’s Underground Metro Rail:

Chennai’s underground metro system is under construction during the period from 2011 to till date.

The Anna Salai alignment has many existing multi-storeyed buildings on both the sides of the alignment.

The Usual settlement rate of a building:

            The foundations of buildings normally take a long time to settle. Hence the rate of settlement will be in the range of cm/year. The average rate of settlement for most of the buildings shall be in the range of 3 cm/year.

The Tunneling process in the underground metro :

The Tunneling process to create the underground rail path is done by means of tunnel boring. Hence the earth which got removed is disposed immediately to distant sites. Now a vaccum is created in the middle zone of the properties abutting the road above.

This Vaccum loosens the stratum which is very near to the periphery of the front end foundations of the road abutting properties. This loosening phenomenon will tend the front end foundations to have a higher rate of settlement than the rear end footings. Hence the buildings abutting the alignment of the underground metro are subjected to a differential settlement.

This differential settlement can cause a shear failure along the vertical height of the building either at the midpoint or at any point depending upon the rate of settlement. 

The Vibrative Shear force caused due to the moving train:

In addition to the differential settlement, the moving train inside the tunnel exhibits a vibrative force to the soil strata around the tunnel. This force is also transferred to the nearest footings of the abutting buildings.

Hence there is a real hazard to the abutting multi-storeyed buildings as well as normal buildings. The failure may happen at any time in the nearest future, but we cannot exactly forecast the date of failure. Hence Engineers concerned in this project are requested to take remedial measures accordingly at the earliest.

The Failure of Road pavement crust in the Thirumangalam alignment:

The following photographs shows that the road pavement above the Thirumangalam metro alignment are wavering.

 The Road Pavement got wavered because of tunnelling action. Anyone who uses a two-wheeler can easily realise the wavering motion of his bike while manuevering this particular road.

This gives us a warning sign that the road plate above the tunnel may fail at anytime at many locations throughout Thirumangalam to Anna nagar Round about.

Hence the concerned Engineers are requested to take proper precautions as soon as possible.

Recommendations to Real Estate people dealing properties abutting underground metro rail:

The Real Estate people who are involved in dealing the transactions of the properties which are abutting underground metro rail tunnel should be aware of the possible future hazards.

So, they are requested not to recommend any transactions for the buildings which are expected to fail. Even the land value for those properties will come down to zero because the land abutting the Underground Metro cannot be used for livelihood in the future.

Hence Evacuation from these properties could be the right solution.

---An Article by Bharath Dhanasekaran ----

An Agricultural Revolution

A Different Approach to create awareness on Agriculture:

Dr. Rajasekar Sankar – Founder - Kingmakers

In this modern era, we have a different kind of Agricultural Revolution under process in Tamil Nadu. This is done by “Kingmakers Properties Pvt. Ltd” in Chennai.

One of their most notable projects is their “Farm Land” Project.

The Farm land project of “Kingmakers” Located in Ongur

What do they do in this Farm Land Project?

They provide farm lands for sale in parcels. Each parcel of Land is 10000 sq.ft charged at Rs.80/- sq.ft. The land will be sold to the customers. In addition to that, Kingmakers does the crops cultivation and plantation of trees in the same land.

The developers take around five years to cultivate crops and different types of fruit bearing trees in the land. This enables the customers to learn agriculture while the property is under their ownership. The customers can even install a small hut in their land and visit their property during their vacation periods. They can spend good time with their own crops. They can cook the vegetables grown from their own fields.

If the customers who bought the land are located in far off places, the company delivers the yielded crops to their homes.

By this way, Kingmakers prove to be an unique variety of property developers. Their farm land project is located in Ongur near melmaruvathur.

Quality of service is good because they deploy their own farmers for the agricultural activities here.So, the customer’s only job is to buy the land. The after events are taken care by the Kingmakers company. This makes them to stand apart from the other real estate companies in Chennai as well as tamil nadu.

A Highest turnover in Six months:

In the period of December 2017 to May 2018, Kingmakers have sold out around 254 parcels of farm land. This sales volume has a financial turnover of around Rs.20.32 crore.

A Network Business Model:

The strategy which they follow to market their farm lands is Network marketing through referrals. Hence they are able to sell their lands even in the toughest periods of real estate market. They are able to provide good incentives to their marketing personnel and hence they are unique in marketing too.

 The marketing office of Kingmakers is located in Valasaravakkam, Chennai. They have their own customer care team to answer the queries of the customers.

A Himalayan achievement:

In the past 11 years, Kingmakers have sold out nearly 91000 land parcels from their company. This appears to be a Himalayan achievement.

 Now, this has been started in Tamil nadu. The motto of Kingmakers is to spread the same process throughout India to all states in the same quality. Hence any kind of Business entrepreneurs are invited to add value to their services.

People who are really interested in promoting agriculture by selling farm lands, can knock the doors of Kingmakers.

If we do not take care of our agriculture, then who will look after it?

In this modern era of computers and technology, people are moving more towards urbanisation. This makes them to forget our own agricultural practices, which can lead even to starvation in the future. Hence this is the right time to invest in agriculture. So, Kingmakers is an option for those who want to tune into agricultural processes.

------An Article by Bharath Dhanasekaran------