Book / Postal Cover Launch

Dept. of Lighthouses under Ministry of Shipping is releasing a SPECIAL POSTAL COVER to mark 175 years of Chennai/Madras’ 2nd Light House, now located inside the Madras High Court campus.
R. Anand, IPoS, Post Master General, Chennai City Region, E. Murthy, Director General of Lighthouses and Lightships, D. Venkataraman, Director, Madras Lighthouse participate. D. HJemachandra Rao, historian will deliver an address on the heritage of the 2nd lighthouse structure.

Venue: Light House, Marina Beach.
At 4.30 p.m.
The cover costs Rs.20. Facilitated by Dept of Posts.
Open to all.

Book by Padmini Viswanathan & Aparna Kamakshi
At Odyssey, Adyar on 17th August 2019, 6.30 PM.
Special Guests:
Mr. V.Sriram – Writer and Entrepreneur.
Mrs. Seetha Ravi (Kalki)

Open to all.

Short stories by Chennai Author S. Sundar Rajan.
At 6 p.m.
Venue: Odyssey, 45, 1st Main Road, Gandhi Nagar, Adyar
Open to all.

A Collection of collaborative poems by over 38 poets from across India at 6 PM. Then we have more poetry book launches by other poets, detailed below:

WOOF SONGS AND THE ETERNAL SELF-SABOTEUR by Jairam Seshadri

SVARA by Gita Bharath

A VOYAGE THROUGH WORDS by K. Pankajam

HAILSTONES IN MY PALMS by Aniamma Joseph.
At Odyssey, 45, 1st Main Road, Gandhi Nagar, Adyar

Open to all.

India Poetry Circle IPC) presents a unique anthology, MADRAS HUES, MYRIAD VIEWS lovingly put together by its poets as a tribute to the warm and vibrant city on her 380th birthday.
The book launch and poetry reading is on August 11th, 2019 at Odyssey book store, Adyar.

Time: 2.00 to 5.00 p.m.

Chief Guest: Sri P.C.Sreeram (ISC), National Award-winning Director and Cinematographer
Guest of Honour: Sri Keshav, Artist
Poetry reading by the 41 contributing poets, presided over by Guest Speaker: Ms Thirupurasundari Sevvel, Story teller, Educator, Architect and Hon. Secretary of the Madras Literary Society

Open to all. RSVP: S. Sundar Rajan, Ph: +91 98410 35185

Advertising Club of Madras presents an opportunity to relive the Golden Era of Advertising in Madras.

Book launch of Ad Ventures, authored by Dr.T. S.Nagarajan, published by Cre-A.

At Madras Management Association, 240, Pathari Road (Off Anna Salai), Behind old Anand Theatre.
At 6.30 p.m.

Guests of honour: N. Murali, Chairman, Kasturi & Sons Ltd., Srinivasan K Swamy, Chairman, R K Swamy Hansa, Chairman and WorldPresident, International Advertising Association, R.V. Rajan, Past President, Adclub Madras.

RSVP: 4269 4778