Comments on: Pranav Jain, Meena Bazaar & Pedatha’s Podi

By: Gayatri Kalbag

Gayatri Kalbag — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:33:31 +0000

With God/s grace, I’ve been allowed by God Almighty to the privilege of working a little with underprivileged people the last few months. Although i thought i had been doing ‘my bit’ for the poor and needy, I am humbled and inspired and awed by people who are so much into giving. Prabav’s contribution to society reminds me of Captain Nandkumar, a former flight commander with Air Inida, and now with Singapore Airlines, who opened the Gurukulam Trust Children’s School in Kovalam with 13 laks of his own savings, and adopted the entire village of Palayur, a small fishing hamlet on the ECR, post Tsunami in 2004-5 or so. A visit to the school makes you feel you are in some place outside Chennai – it’s so clean, the people are so warm, and the children are a marvel!!! Of all the children, I found Pragdish the best. Topper in school, gold medallist at the district and state level in karate, and now all set to attend the Indo-Singapore karate meet a couple of months from now!. The school makes the learning of yoga and karate cumpolsary for both boys and girls. People like Pranav and Capt Nandu, as he is fondly called, sure make you feel awed and inspired!!!

By: PEDATHA – a tribute by Sandhya « whose food we eat, their song we sing

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:21:45 +0000

[...] those who knew her and loved her. We post this tribute by Sandhya, a.k.a Sandy, the better half of Pranav Jain whose favourite birthday gift is a meal from Pedatha’s [...]

By: Malvica Krishna Rao

Malvica Krishna Rao — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:43:13 +0000

Dear Jinga, how wonderful to reconnect after so long, and for the ocassion of your second book! truly looking forward to meeting you & get the families to meet too. Congratulations once more to you & Pratibha Jain.
Well, this year for Mother’s Day I have put together a plan to have Kids & Dads in our little community treat the moms to a home cooked meal. It’s a day off for us from all the multi tasking that we do each day. Everybody is in agreement & I am confident it will be a great day for us.
Kudos to Meena Bazaar, do they organize preplanned market days? when is the next one?
affly, Malu.
Hi Malu, Grt to reconnect too! And super to see you on our blog! I like your mothers’ day plan. If you ever want to send in a tribute recipe to your mom or grandmom or dad…we’ll be happy to upload it on our site. All you need to send us via email is a short writeup about the person you are paying a tribute to & connect that person with the recipe. Jpg pics of you with the person, of the person himself/herself, of the recipe etc. always make a post better.
Stay in touch. Look fwd to seeing you in Chennai.
And yes, Meena Bazaar is on Sep 2nd & 3rd this year.
Lots of love, Jinga.

By: Srivalli

Srivalli — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:31:09 +0000

Pratibha, this is such a wonderful post. Great knowing about Pranav and Meena Bazaar, very commendable!

By: Swaram

Swaram — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:13:22 +0000

I really liked the phrase “guilty free shopping”.
Heartfelt wishes to all people associated with this noble deed and I really feel if I am @ Chennai sometime during the same, would love to visit Meena Bazaar. Its so nice to be of some help atleast
Many times when I see people without even basic neccessities at a time when we are on a shopping spree in all possible AC Malls around, I feel so guilty that am not able to do anything for them and pray God he somehow uses us as an instrument to be of some help somewhere bcoz finally all that we have is from his own big pool and it belongs to all his children. Hats off to all u ppl who have put the same in action!