Madras Week Celebrations are on ...

The founding day of Madras is considered to be 22nd August 1639. So the Chennai city deserves to celebrate its birthday on 22nd August . The city stands high for a variety of reasons. Its development is awesome in the fields of IT, Health care, Education, Industries of all sectors and Entertainment. To enhance the participation of the public the Madras day has been extended to create the Madras week. And this week is termed as the Madras week (August 17th to 24th) every year and it celebrates the city.

The Madras day mainly focuses on the city and its history. The volunteers who love the city motivate the communities and groups to conduct numerous events and celebrate the city. Usually events like heritage talks, walks, bullet bike rides around the city, various contests like poetry ,music and quiz, rallies, food fests, exhibitions and more will be conducted all around felicitating the Chennai city.

Golden Icons of Chennai

First row: Rajaji, C V Raman, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Second row: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, M S Subbulakshmi, Rukmini Devi Arundale, Jayakanthan
Third row: R K Narayan, Subramania Bharathi, Ramaswamy Venkataraman

The 2008 Madras Week celebrations are going on throughout the city daily. Various events are scheduled everyday. Heritage talks about the city are conducted almost daily. People from various countries who have settled in madras share their views about the city. Heritage walk is also organized by volunteers all around the city. Exhibitions and contests are also being organized. The timings and venue of all the events are found in the link below.
http://sriramv.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/madras-week-2008-event-schedule/

Some of the other events conducted this year are:

• Book release: "Historic Residences of Chennai" and "Release of Dr. K.V. Raman’s The Early History of the Madras Region"
• Live presentation contest for city schools
• Spoken word/poetry reading sessions
• Live demo of food, clothes, lifestyle, dance, music and lots more at the Asan Memorial School
• Stories on Madras for children aged between 6 -12
• Session on Wildlife in Chennai to create awareness and depict the importance of natural heritage in Chennai
• Quiz Contest on Chennai conducted at the Rotary Club of Madras
• Documentary Film Festival

I request all the chennaites to participate in the events and celebrate the city.Lets Rock around the city !!!!!