Category Archives: Business & Economy

SRM Transports joins hands with India Post

Business & Economy

Will offer ticket booking facilities at Post Offices

Chennai :

Cashing in on the retail network of India Post, omnibus operator SRM Transports India has tied up with India Post to book bus tickets across Tamil Nadu.

The over ₹100-crore SRM Transport operates close to 500 vehicles connecting all key cities across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Puducherry. The company recently launched ‘Dial-in’ services for ticketing, where by travellers can block tickets from anywhere.

The tie-up with India Post is expected to offer booking tickets through the Internet.

“As the Internet is yet to penetrate in a big way into rural geographies, the India Post tie-up will come in handy for us,” explained Vivek Sivaraman, Chief Executive Officer, SRM Transport.

According to SC Barmma, Postmaster General (Mails & Business Development), who launched the service at a press conference here on Monday, said consumers can book SRM Bus tickets at post offices. To start with 94 post offices across Tamil Nadu will offer this service, and it will be extended to over 2,000 post offices in the State in a phased manner.

Ravi Pachamoothoo, Chairman, SRM Group, said the company is keen on expanding its network across the South through hub-and-spokes model. At present, it operates from Chennai and Bangalore as hubs.

More cities

The plan is to have more cities, such as Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchi, Mysore, Thiruvananthapuram and Hyderabad as hubs connecting various points around these cities. He also expressed the company’s tie-up with India Post for its cargo services as well.

Besides, the company plans to double its fleet in the next couple of years.

“We are also open to expand our network through acquisitions,” said Sivaraman.

source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com / Business Line / Home> Logistics / by The Hindu Bureau / Chennai – August 18th, 2014

MADRAS 375 – The long road — from SRP Tools to Manali

About Chennai(Madras) / TamilNadu, Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Business & Economy, Historical Links, Pre-Independence

Inner Ring Road (IRR), connecting SRP Tools and Manali, and running to a length of approximately 34 km, is one of the busiest stretches in the city, with vehicular traffic touching 1.5 lakh a day.

But would you believe that the road did not even exist on the map of Madras until the early 1980s?

The project to lay phase I of the road from Guindy to Padi began only in 1978, and was completed only by 1981. At that time, it was a two-lane road with cycle lanes and pavements.

Until then, vehicles from Tambaram, and travelling to Vadapalani, had no other option but to take a circuitous route.

K.V. Kanakambaran, president, Industrial Estate Manufacturer’s Association, Guindy, said, in the place where the road stands today, there used to be a narrow vandi paathai frequented by bullock carts, bicycles and tractors.

“Apart from A, B, C and D blocks of the estate, the rest were agricultural plots. The industries and commerce department gave land for the formation of the road. Beyond the estate, there was a mango grove and an open ground,” he said, adding the road was a boon to various industrial units when it was laid.

The 11.7-km-long phase-I was constructed at a cost of Rs. 2.45 crore with World Bank funds.

A former engineer of the highways department said the portion of IRR that runs through K.K. Nagar and Ashok Nagar was part of the Housing Board layout.

“The road was formed following recommendations made by the Madras Area Traffic Study Unit in 1974. As far as the road from Vadapalani to Koyambedu was concerned, originally, the land belonged to the Madras Municipal Corporation, obtained for a drainage scheme. A portion was handed over to the highways department for the road,” he said.

IRR was formed in four phases. Phase-II of the road is from Padi to Madhavaram, phase-III from Madhavaram to Manali and Phase-IV from OTA to SRP Tools. It now has six lanes and is called Jawaharlal Nehru Salai.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities / by Deepa H. RamaKrishnan / Chennai – August 22nd, 2014

Kalam Stresses on Importance of Family in Nation Building

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Business & Economy, Science & Technologies

New Delhi :

Economic growth or military strength alone won’t make India strong, a truly sustainable society, at the heart of which is the family, is very much necessary, argues former President A P J Abdul Kalam in his new book.

Kalam and celebrated Jain thinker late Acharya Mahapragya in the book “The Family and the Nation” say that only a strong and happy family can lead to a strong and noble nation.

In writing the book, the ideas of the two authors were shaped by their interaction during the past few decades with millions of countrymen hailing from different walks of life.

“Each interaction enhanced our experience and added to our understanding of the development of a noble family, a noble society and a noble nation,” they write.

While embarking on this journey of writing a book, we realised the magnitude of connectivities involved and the extent of our society’s evolution during the last few centuries,” they say.

“It is true that all of us realise that today’s world is a connected one. Technology and travel have nearly made the world a global village. The world has to become a federation of nations.

A nation is a federation of states, social groups, families and individuals. So what is needed is a situation of live and let live.

“One’s needs, aspirations, accomplishments are all important. But there has to be a concept of a noble nation, where the welfare of the whole nation as a whole is ingrained in the thinking and actions of its people.

This is the need of the hour. How do we achieve this idea of a noble nation,” the authors ask.             According to them, their visualisation of a noble nation is two-fold.

“One is internal, concerned with the individual and encompassing the family, community and society. Another concerns enterprise and covers the issues of livelihood, business, distribution of wealth and respect for individual property and rights,” they say.

The authors do not offer any new theory or postulate any new concept but draw from the heritage of our civilization.

“The bottom line is that a citizen with a value system respects the family, respects society, and thereby respects the nation. Furthermore, the person is conscious that he or she is a part of the world family.

“The operational line is the prosperity of people with adequate earning capacity. We call such a nation a developed nation. Economic prosperity and an embedded value system would promote a peaceful and prosperous society and thereby the evolution of a happy nation,” they write.

The book, published by HarperCollins India, stresses on the values that make for a truly sustainable society, at the heart of which is the family. For it is not economic growth or military strength alone that will make India strong.

Sustainable success comes from values, and these can sustain a society and a nation even in times of hardship. The book expresses an ideal by which Indian society may prosper and speaks of how spirituality can help create a noble nation and a better world. It provides a valuable counterpoint to the modern-day emphasis on consumerism and the philosophy of more is better, highlighting the sanctity of the natural world and its great power to evoke human creativity and love.

The two writers bring their vast experience to bear on this important subject. As the authors put it, it’s only a strong and happy family that will lead to a noble nation, one that can be a true fulfilment of 5,000 years of India’s civilization.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Nation / by PTI / August 26th, 2014

Millets become Trichy homemakers’ favourite, health benefits raise hope

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Business & Economy, Green Initiatives/ Environment, Nature

Trichy :

Health benefits of millets seem to be slowly catching up with people in Trichy. Proof of it was the response which the traditional food fest, which recently concluded in city, received. The fest which attracted over 10,000 visitors, saw people thronging to know more about the cereal variety.

Probably, it’s the increased incidence of Type 2 diabetes among youth, and other health issues that has made people rethink about their food habits. Despite taking medicine for such diseases, the intake of junk foods is an obstacle. So, doctors these days advise people to look at the way their ancestors lived. Traditional food, including millets, used to be main part of their diet.

Kambu (pearl millet), Kezhvaragu (finger millet), Thinai (foxtail millet), Saamai (little millet), Makka Cholam (Corn Makka), Kuthiraivali (Barnyard millet), Panivaragu (Proso millet), Varagu (Kodo millet) are the various types of millets which are being promoted along with Kaikuthal arisi (hand-pound rice or brown rice) among the people. Doctors claim that millets, which are rich in vitamins, help improve the immune system. “We always advise our patients to have healthy food. People can take any millet variety which suits them,” said Dr SP Thiruppathy, former secretary of Indian Medical Association (IMA).

Chandra, a homemaker, who had put up a stall during the traditional festival along with her friends, said, “Her family were already using millets in their daily diet. It is not easy to switch to millet food from the contemporary food including junk. It will take some time, but once we get used to it, then there is nothing as tasty and as healthy as millet.”

In many cases, people avoid millets due to lack of recipes. Keeping this in mind, many recipe books were released in market which had millets listed as the main ingredient. “For the past two years, the response for millets has been good. The growing health consciousness makes millet a natural choice for people. Homemakers must make use of the recipe books to prepare variety of dishes using millets,” said Jambuga Ramakrishnan, co-ordinator of ladies club associations in Trichy.

Moreover, the awareness about the health benefits of millets is yet to reach the middle class and poor people, who still prefer contemporary food. “Millets produced in organic method is far better than the ones produced using fertilizers. People must realize they their intake of chemicals (Monosodium Glutamate) in the form of food is harmful before it becomes too late. The food was banned in China, the place where it was made. But here, we consume it not considering its ill-effects,” said G Sathiyabhama, joint secretary of International Naturopathy Organisation.

Until a few decades ago, a hand-pound rice or brown rice used to be an integral part of the diet of people in parts of rural Tamil Nadu. The innumerable health benefits of brown rice were well received by our ancestors. However, as generations passed, people started forgetting the values of healthy foods as junk foods started alluring taste buds. Fact is that, brown rice has now become a costly product which is available only in super markets. Moreover, the demand has come down drastically as people aren’t aware of the health benefits.

In order to promote the traditional food, the integrated child development services (ICDS) scheme conducted a nine-day ‘traditional food festival’ recently in the city. During the fest, millet varieties worth Rs10,43,702 were sold by the self help groups, which is a sign that magic of millets is spreading again among people.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Trichy / by Gokul Rajendran, TNN / August 21st 2014

Andhiyur horse shandy attracts buyers from across the state

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Business & Economy, Nature

Andhiyur (Erode) :

It was that time of the year again when animal lovers thronged the famous horse shandy in Andhiyur in Erode district. Horses, cows and goats of different breeds and hues were on display for sale on Wednesday and buyers from across the state assessed their pedigree and their worth with a practiced eye. The Andhiyur horse shandy is generally hosted during the Gurunathan Swamy temple festival. Started by Tipu Sultan to sell old army horses to the public, the shandy is more than two centuries old.

Various breeds of horses including Kathiawari, Kathuria, Nokhra and Marwar, goat varieties such as Tellicherryi, Pakistan Kurumbai, Jamnapari, Assam hill goat and Sirohi and a wide range of cows such as Kangeyam and Ongole were available for sale at the shandy. V R S Raja, a participant from Nachipalayam in Coimbatore boasted of his ?Marwari’ horse which is a pedigree breed. “My horse is 6.5ft and is the tallest in this shandy. It is three-and-a-half-years old and costs 25 lakh,” he said. According to him, the tallest horse is 6.8ft tall.

The Tellicherry and Pakistan Kurumbai goats were popular attractions at the shandy. The Tellicherry is preferred for its meat and milk production while the Pakistan Kurumbai is known for its bravery. “A Tellicherry goat weighs 25kg at six months while a normal goat weighs only 18kg at the same age,” said S Arunkumar, an MBA graduate. Unable to find a job, he began rearing goats and now it has become a full-time business for him.

G R Siva from Trichy is passionate about the Kurumbai breed. “My goats are reared to fight. I also have three elephants and Arabian horses which are a high-maintenance breed,” he said. Other goat varieties such as Jamnapari and Sirohi also drew the crowds. “One Jamnapari goat costs 1.5 lakh in the market. It is known for its high milk yield, giving 4 litres of milk daily,” said P Velumani, who has more than 10 Jamnapari goats in his farm in Madurai district.

G V Adhimoolam, a businessman from Erode, showcased his first class Ongole cows at the fair. A pair of Ongole cows would cost 7.5 lakh, he said. “It could go up to 25 lakh depending on its height and beauty,” he said.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Coimbatore / TNN / August 14th, 2014

US Patent to VIT Alumnus for Travel Aid Gizmo that Doesn’t Need Internet

Business & Economy, Records, All, World Opinion
A copy of the patent being handed over to Srilavanya by VIT Chancellor G Viswanathan on Wednesday | EXPRESS
A copy of the patent being handed over to Srilavanya by VIT Chancellor G Viswanathan on Wednesday | EXPRESS

Vellore :

Imagine travelling in a long-distance train with no idea about the current location, no internet connectivity to identify the spot through GPRS and not knowing when to alight.

What if there’s a gadget inside the compartment that has its own communication network and provides value-added services such as details of the location, the approaching station, food items available in the pantry, social networking with co-passengers and alerts about one’s destination without disturbing others? This is exactly what two students of MS Software Engineering attached to the VIT University have developed in the form of an in-vehicle network based mobile solution, that has received US patent now, for the very first time in the university.

“I am so delighted that we have been able to get the US patent for the very good work done by two of our students – Srisudha Garimalla and Srilavanya Paleti and their guide Dr K Ganesan of TIFAC-CORE at the University,” said VIT Chancellor G Viswanthan, briefing about the patent on Wednesday. He said an application had also been filed for an Indian patent.

He said the application for the US patent was filed in 2011, the details of which were published on the Internet for objection, if any, to the concept and ownership . “We got the approval for the patent on August 5, 2014,” he said, adding: “The patent has been obtained in the shortest period.”

Srilavanya, who is employed at Schneider Electrics at Bengaluru, recalled that it took two years for them to work on the application, which provided a cost-effective, value-added service to passengers, who are travelling in trains, ship or buses where access to internet was problem. “I have experienced the problem while travelling from Vellore to my home town in Vijayawada by train, which made us work on a solution,” she said. Her classmate Srisudha, while explaining about the application said, the hardware built by them comprised GPS, Wi-Fi and bluetooth modules with necessary software. This unit, which provides its own communication network without internet support, can be fixed on the roof of the train compartment.

When a passenger enters the train, he/she has to switch on the bluetooth module on the mobile phone, upon which the software developed by the girls would be downloaded to the mobile phone. The user has to enter certain details such as his destination.

The hardware unit will save this information and remind the passenger with an SMS when the destination arrives. A passenger who is asleep will get the alert with a vibration on his mobile. If the train is running late, the passenger need not wake up early.

Another in-built feature of the system is information about food items available on the train. The passengers can place orders through mobile phone, said Srisudha, presently a senior developer with Sapient Private Limited, a leading multinational company in Bengaluru.

Passengers can get to know about the medical help available onboard during an emergency and can publish request for sharing hotel accommodation and transportation like taxi/auto.

Ganesan said 16 patents had been filed by VIT so far. The US patent received now could be used anywhere in the world, he added.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Tamil Nadu / by V. NarayanaMurthi / August 21st, 2014

Pulicat fisherwomen fatten crabs for profit

Business & Economy, Science & Technologies

Chennai :

When Bujiyamma bought a crab from the Chintadripet market, it weighed only 400g. After a month, its weight doubled to 800g. Mud crab-fattening is catching on among the fisherfolk in Pazhaverkadu (Pulicat), a historical seashore town in Tiruvallur district, 62km from Chennai.

At least 11 self-help groups, with a dozen women members each, have been working on this project. Bujiyamma has been on the job for more than two years.

“The crab-fattening period is 35 days. We feed the crabs with small fish that we catch from the sea and sell them after they gain weight,” said Bujiyamma.

This 60-year-old fisher woman in Kulathumedu has seen crabs gain weight up to 2kg during fattening. “I have successfully nurtured some crabs that weighed up to 2kg. If we take care of them well, they will gain weight rapidly.

By fattening them, we can sell them for a good price,” she said. The women sell the fattened crabs at ‘1,200 per kg. Even though a mud crab is supposed to gain weight during the fattening period, some don’t for unknown reasons. “It’s not necessary that all crabs would put on weight during the fattening period.

We need to repeat the process for the crabs that don’t gain weight in the first attempt.

It’s a costly affair,” said S Sasikala, another crab-breeder.

A project supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialised agency of the United Nations to eradicate poverty in rural areas of the developing countries, crab-fattening has helped many fisherwomen earn a fairly good income. “If we are to eradicate hunger and poverty, we need to empower rural people to take care of their own development. Mud crab-fattening is one of the micro enterprise activities of our project. I am happy that it is going well in Pazhaverkadu,” said Kanayo F Nwanze, president of the IFAD after visiting the unit in Kulathumedu recently.

Although crab-fattening is attracting more fisherwomen in Pulicat, many feel that the initiative will help more women if extended to other coastal districts of Tamil Nadu.

“It’s an easy way for women to earn some money without investing much. The government should look into the positive side of the project. It will help if implemented in other coastal districts,” said Rani Pugazhendi, panchayat president of Kottaikuppam in Pazhaverkadu.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Chennai / by  M T Saju , TNN / August 16th, 2014

The street with a ‘fragrant’ past

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Business & Economy, Historical Links, Pre-Independence, Records, All

Coimbatore :

Branching off from both sides of D B Road is a little known street called Sambandhan Road. You have West Sambandhan Road which leads to Thadagam Road and East Sambandhan Road which leads to Mettupalayam Road. The road is believed to have been named as a tribute to former municipal chairman M Sambandhan in the 1930s when the legendary Rathna Sabapathy Mudaliar drew the layout of R S Puram.

However, like almost all roads in R S Puram the road has seen a lot of changes in the demography of its residents over the past few decades and only a handful of original inhabitants can still be found. So, it is not surprising that not many people know who Sambandan was or why the road was named after him. M Sambandhan was born in 1869 and passed his Class 10 in 1885. Then he moved to erstwhile Madras for further studies. The MCC graduate got his degree in 1891 and got a degree in law from Presidency College in 1894.

Being the son of former tahsildar and Tamil literature expert Muthukrishna Mudaliyar, he moved back to the city in 1894 and took up a job as a secretary of a sugar manufacturing company. In 1901, he began his legal career. However, in 1906 he decided to enter public life. “He became a municipal councillor in 1906 and went on to become a municipal chairman in 1916,” say INTACH members and historians Perur K Jayaraman and Rajesh Govindarajulu.

The man is believed to have greatly contributed to the city infrastructure creation in the early 20th century. “He was awarded a certificate of merit and a silver medal as a councillor,” says Govindarajulu. He then grew in society by becoming the director of Janopakara Needhi, becoming committee members of the Cosmopolitan Clubs of Coimbatore and Chennai, becoming a part of the Madras legislative council, Theasophical Society, becoming a Free Mason and being a part of the Madras Mahajana Sabha, known to be instrumental in forming a congress chapter in the state, says Govindarajulu.

The street, which now has cars parked on both sides and is dotted with apartment complexes and a range of commercial establishments like a bakery, coffee shop, an art gallery, clinics, Aavin outlet and eateries, has managed to retain a bit of its past. There still exist a few two-storey independent houses, painted in peach, blue and pink with terraces and flat window sills. The street’s oldest resident 78-year-old S S Seshadri gave a glimpse of the street’s past.

“I was born in this house on this street in 1936. My parents had moved here in 1933,” he recalls. “Then it was just a gravel and mud road. We just had horse carriages. It became a tar road in 1952. “The Chandrika soap manufacturing unit was based in East Sambandhan Road,” says Jayaraman.

“The whole road used to be filled with fragrance when they processed their solution,” he adds. The road also used to have a few well-known residents like surgeon T S Sivanandham and former movie actor T S Baliah. Seshadri says the road for decades used to have only independent limestone houses with tiled roofs. “It changed about 40 years back when people began to use cement to renovate them. Many sold off their property and left the area. Now it has become more of a commercial street with more shops and apartments than houses,” he says. He gets nostalgic as he talks about those “good old days” when he used to spin tops on this very street. He knows those days will not come back again.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Coimbatore / by Pratiksha Ramkumar, TNN / August 17th, 2014

375 years and going strong

About Chennai(Madras) / TamilNadu, Business & Economy, Historical Links, Pre-Independence, Records, All
The first phase of metro rail is nearing completion. (Photo: DC)
The first phase of metro rail is nearing completion. (Photo: DC)

Chennai: 

In the age of runaway electronics, the smartphone is just 20 years old. Compare that to a city that is turning 375 this week and you have some idea of the enormity of the differences we are talking about. And yet, much like the world of gizmos, the city has grown phenomenally in those 20 years, making a great deal of progress in a short span when compared to the eon that went before it.

The tale of two cities, Madras and Chennai could not have been more disparate than it is now with the modern city an amorphous mass of buildings, people and incessant traffic highlighted by the unique Indian habit of vehicles honking their way throughout their journey. While old timers would yearn with nostalgia for old Madras with its leafy avenues and distinct lack of traffic lights, the modern Chennaiiite knows he is on to a good thing in an expanding city.

At no time could the city have boasted of such a wide spread of leisure activities as now. Adventure sport not as much on the water as it should be in a harbour city has opened up avenues that never existed in times when the good old transistor radio was the sole link to the world even as youngsters sat on the Marina ground’s sea side wall to look on at the cricket, without quite knowing who was actually playing.

The fabulous spread of eating joints – from the most economical at the old messes of some of the city’s most ancient localities like Mylapore and Triplicane to the most expensive at the luxury caravanserais as the city hosts more and more hotels with multiple stars claimed by some grand but opaque system is a veritable gourmet’s haven as well as a gourmand’s delight. Of course, the tippler also has a wider choice now thanks to an incipient liberal policy.

In a city that toyed with Prohibition for a long time in the name of great socialistic values that were always well beaten by bootleggers and illicit liquor brewers, the scene has transformed beyond belief with a snooty new pub on Chamiers Road even declining to let in customers just for one drink on a Saturday evening unless they had a booking. In the old days, the speakeasys had a welcoming policy that did the customer and the seller proud.

It is a fervent hope that in the next 25 years to the city’s 400th anniversary Chennai would do two things that would make it more liveable clean up the stinking waterways along the lines of the Singapore model and plant millions of trees to give shade as well as invite more rain and absorb the carbon footprint.  As the saying goes, change is the only constant and Madras-Chennai has been a living emobodiment of that principle; only it needs to be even more so as one the more sensible metros of India that has always melded the best of old values with the comforts of modernity.

source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Nation> Current Affairs / DC / R. Mohan / August 17th, 2014

MADRAS 375 – Mylapore mess dishes out southern flavours

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Business & Economy
A trip to Mylapore is not considered complete without a pit stop at Mylai Karpagambal Mess. / Photo: S.S. Kumar / The Hindu
A trip to Mylapore is not considered complete without a pit stop at Mylai Karpagambal Mess. / Photo: S.S. Kumar / The Hindu

Right from the banana leaf to the hot kaapi, everything about this place screams Madras.

If you guessed Mylai Karpagambal Mess, then you are bang on target. A trip to Mylapore is never complete if you have not stepped into this modest restaurant for a bite or a cup of degree coffee.

_______________________________________________________

Dates in History
1950
Mylai Karpagambal Mess opened to the public
1989
The mess did away with the meals, and the present menu of variety rice and light tiffin was launched
2010
The mess underwent renovation
_______________________________________________________
Did you know !

When the mess was started 65 years ago, it was a place which served meals for 50 people. People used to come here for our potato podimas, beans usili, avial, amd lemon and pineapple rasam

_____________________________________________________ 

“Young or old, they still prefer filter coffee to cold coffee and pongal to pizzas,” says S. Prabhu Das, who has taken over the responsibility of the restaurant from his father, R. Soundarajan. The eat-out has something old and something new to attract new customers, and yet retains its original flavour.

Reminiscing about the beginnings, Mr. Prabhu said, “When the mess was started 65 years ago, it was a place which served meals for 50 people. My grandfather used to procure vegetables from the market and serve customers personally. People used to come here for our potato podimas, beans usili, avial, and lemon and pineapple rasam.”

As people who came after 1 p.m. missed lunch, Mr. Soundararajan did away with the meals and the present menu of variety rice and light tiffin was introduced in 1989.

“My father concentrated on the taste but I want to combine it with health as well,” says Prabhu.

Now, Prabhu and his wife, Prema, have introduced a variety of dishes such as murungakeerai adai avial, modakathan pickle,nellaikkai podi and pavakkai podi. Other new launches include the kalyana gothsu, a variety of vadais — cabbage, parappu,vazhapu, keerai (available between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.) — pineapple pudding, and kasi and wheat halwas.

A major attraction in one corner of the 1500-sq. ft. hall is a counter which sells milagai podi, paruppu podi, karuveppilai podi, vazhapoo pickle and pudhina podi. Many of them are made of herbs which help reduce BP, sugar, purify blood and soothe the nerves, Prabhu says.

He maintains that their recipe for success lies in the painstakingly written recipes that his mother had inherited from his grandmother. His wife has them now.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Chennai> Madras 375 / by Lalitha Sai / August 08th, 2014