Lakshmi Devi bagged a gold medal and a silver medal in an athletics event in Sri Lanka
Deputy Inspector-General of Kurnool Range B.V. Ramana Kumar on Thursday felicitated a woman head constable Nemmipati Lakshmi Devi who bagged a gold and a silver medal in the international athletics championship held in Sri Lanka.
Ms. Lakshmi Devi, working in the Armed Reserve headquarters in Kurnool, secured gold medal in hammer throw and silver medal in discuss throw held at Diogama Mahindra Rajapakshe sports stadium at Colombo in Sri Lanka in February last week. The DIG felicitated the woman head constable with a shawl and garland and wished that she win more laurels and earn a good name for the police department. Reacting to the felicitation, Ms. Lakshmi Devi said women were excelling in all sectors on par with men and lamented discrimination against women in some aspects.
Gives credit to family
She said she could emerge as an international athlete with the encouragement of her family members.
Additional SP (Administration) T. Chandrasekhar Reddy, Additional SP (Armed Reserve) M.K. Radhakrishna, DSPs D.V. Ramana Murthy, J. Babi Prasad, G. Veeraraghava Reddy, Police Officers Association president T. Narayana and executive members Raghuramudu and Noor Ahmed participated.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Andhra Pradesh/ by Special Correspondent / Kurnool – March 04th, 2016
CMD of Navratna CPSE National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) Tapan Kumar Chand has been unanimously elected as president of Aluminium Association of India (AAI) in its National Governing Council Meeting, held here Wednesday.
AAI is a body that represents the entire spectrum of Indian aluminium industry. General secretary of AAI KSS Murthy said that with the election of Chand, the AAI would have a more assertive and affirmative approach in promoting the consumption of aluminium and boosting the growth of the industry.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Andhra Pradesh / by Express News Service / March 03rd, 2016
Rickshaw heritage rides give an opportunity to appreciate our rich past
Heritage walks on the ancient lanes of the city’s Old Town area are like time machines that take you on a journey through the pages of history and give a glimpse of some chapters that make your soul recoil with pain and poetry.
The small group of people, which participated in the rickshaw heritage ride recently, took back with it slices of the rich historical past of the city.
For Anita Rao, an artist, the experience was a trip down the ages — to how the area was a few centuries ago. “The over 250-year-old Queen Mary’s School encouraged and made special arrangement to educate widows and even paid them Rs.15 per month to study in the early 1900s. There were several such stories we learnt about the places that give me a reverence for these structures, which we often take for granted,” she said.
Artist Anita Rao’s sketch of Kurupam Market entrance.—Photo: K.R. Deepak
Intrigued by the fascinating tales of many such structures, some of which no longer exist, Rao made a watercolour sketch of the Kurupam Market entrance, which was demolished a few years ago.
The participants were taken around 10 important heritage places of the locality — Town Hall, Town Hall Lane, Kurupam Market, Old European Cemetery, Queen Victoria’s Pavilion, St. John Church and School, Queen Mary’s School, Ishak Madina Dargah, St. Aloysius School, and Light House. Sandhya Parimala Vijapurapu, a youngster, said that the heritage trail gave an in-depth understanding of the city’s history.
The experience made her realise that heritage was more than old buildings.
“When I hold my camera and shoot the walls of the Town Hall, it gives me a different perspective now after sifting through the multiple layers of historical facts. We saw old chairs piled up in corners of the thick walls of the building, which are now silent spectators of the city’s rapid transition,” she said, and added that the exciting part of the tour was the rickshaw ride that promoted the modest ecological mode of transport. Leading from the front was city-based social and heritage activist Jayshree Hatangadi, who had been conducting these Sunday rickshaw heritage rides for the past few months.
The heritage trail takes participants around in four rickshaws.
“The idea behind doing these rides is also to highlight the issues of preserving heritage sites. For instance, the Town Hall needs to be repaired and its surrounding area cleaned so that it can be a place of display of our heritage and have interesting speakers every month to give a talk or a presentation. Once the locations are cleaned, we can have visitor brochures and guides trained to talk about the history of the place. Even the European Cemetery has a big story to tell. Several tombstones have their life in short beautifully calligraphed,” added Hatangadi.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Cities> Visakhapatnam / by Nivedita Ganguly / Visakhapatnam – March 02nd, 2016
Whistle artiste K. Sivaprasad performing at Thyagaraja Mandiram in Ongole. —Photo: Kommuri Srinivas
Many people have a liking to whistle popular tunes from films in a casual manner. But gifted artiste K.Siva Prasad has perfected whistling to an art to give a full-fledged carnatic music concert, winning acclaim from both critics and connoisseurs of art as well.
It was renowned musician Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna who trained him to give concerts.
Spurred by the success of the music album ‘Mera Bharat Mera Saas (My Nation My Breath)’ released by Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya on the Independence Day last year with songs of, among others, Nobel laureate Rabindranth Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and Muhammad Iqbal, the whistle wizard now plans to come with a video album with songs of noted freedom fighter and social reformer from Tamil Nadu ‘Mahakavi Bharathi’, that kindled patriotism and love for nature.
Mandolin, Saxophone and Shehnai were not so popular in the yesteryears, unlike now, he adds.
On a mission
Mr. Sivaprasad, who had etched his name on the Limca Book of World Records in 1991, was also on a mission to popularise the genre by bringing out a video album on the Ghazals of Mehdi Hassan, Jagjit Singh and Pankaj Udhast. He was here in connection with the Thyagaraja Aradhana.
A disciple of Balamuralikrishna, Mr. Sivaprasad, who has given more than 10,000 concerts in India and abroad, wants people to take to whistle or any other fine art to get relief from stress associated with modern way of living.
Many take interest in whistling popular film songs of the likes of A.R. Rahman, Ilayaraja. “I want to kindle interest in them to mature into whistle artistes,” adds the artiste who has floated Bharatha Bharathi Music Trust for the purpose.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Andhra Pradesh / by Staff Reporter / Ongole – March 01st, 2016
