Many participate in pallankuzhi contest in Mylapore

A hush prevailed inside the hall astatine the Lady Sivaswami Ayyar School successful Mylapore connected Sunday as participants of the pallankuzhi contest bent implicit their wooden boards moving tamarind seeds oregon reddish beads oregon shells from 1 pit to another. There was hardly immoderate talking arsenic the players watched their opponents racing to capable immoderate pits and bare immoderate others.

“Those who get the maximum number of coins are winners successful that particular game between two persons. The teams were fixed 45 minutes to play and determination were teams that could play adjacent 24 – 25 games successful that span,” explained Mythili Subramanian, a erstwhile teacher, who conducted the competition organised as portion of the 22^nd edition of the Sundaram Finance Mylapore Festival. 

K.R. Jambuthan, a long-time nonmigratory of Mylapore, whose family possess a 120-year-old Pallankuzhi board, said that helium played against a young miss from the USA, who was really good. “I person been playing this crippled for respective years present and person besides won prizes a fewer times.”

His woman and former teacher, Visalakshi Jambunathan, said they person been taking portion successful this Pallankuzhi competition from the beginning. “I person played from my young age. I person besides taught this crippled to my children. Now galore radical travel to this competition, which has made it much challenging,” she said. 

Vincent D’Souza, manager of the festival, said that concerts volition beryllium held astatine the Kapaleeswarar Temple from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. from January 8 to 11. A chess tourney volition beryllium held astatine the Lady Sivaswami Ayyar schoolhouse betwixt 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. connected the 10^th and 11^th for children under 12 years.

Earlier during a property conference, Rajiv Lochan, Managing Director, Sundaram Finance, said that this year, Sundaram Finance volition motorboat a new initiative to promote citizens to locomotion the BlueGreen Mile successful 2026. Sundaram Finance and Environmental Foundation of India volition motorboat a unsocial sustainability programme. Citizens volition beryllium trained by volunteers to acceptable up their ain room gardens nether the Grow Your Food initiative.