Saplings planted
About 500 employees of ServiceMaster, an end-to-end service solutions provider for facilities, administration and human resources, planted saplings on the outer ring road, near Innovative Multiplex, and also donated blood, to mark the third anniversary of the company. 

The tree planting programme was inaugurated on Saturday by the octogenarian environmentalist, Salumarada Thimmakka and environmentalist and former Secretary of Environment, A.N.Yellappa Reddy. 

Lauding the efforts of ServiceMaster, Thimmakka said while in the name of development trees were being cut without any second thought, here was a company which was not only interested in creating awareness about the environment, but also taking a lead. More and more companies with lot of resources at their disposal should take care of environmental issues. 

Mr Yellappa Reddy said while most companies indulged in parties on their anniversaries, here was a company which thought differently and for the good of the society. He pointed out the adverse effects on the environment with depletion of tree cover, one of which was global warming. 


The Director of ServiceMaster, Soundarresan said that this was the second year the company had organised such a programme. In 2006, it organized a health camp in the city. He said that the company would ensure that the saplings were nurtured and similar progammes would be organized in the future. 

Book launched
Oxford Bookstore recently launched Sharad P Paul’s ‘Cool Cut’, a novel on enduring love and the power of redemption. Cool Cut also explores the lives of eunuchs—the ‘third gender’—of which there are a million in India and who are seen both as a source of good luck and terrible misfortune.

Set amongst life deep in South India, Cool Cut explores the threatened decline of the ancient Tamil culture and language through the eyes and lives of three young villagers, Kumar, Raman and Lakshmi. Set in an idyllic surrounding, their friendship blossoms through their love for kite-flying, but fate catches up with them and throws each into their own dark and painful world.

Sharad Paul was born in England, but grew up in India. His parents were both doctors who left comfortable medical careers to pursue medical mission work in India. Sharad followed in his parents’ footsteps and completed residencies in Plastic Surgery and Family Medicine before migrating to New Zealand 15 years ago.

Unable to build a career in cosmetic surgery, he started to practise skin cancer surgery and reconstruction.
Sharad also has a Masters in Law from the University of Glasgow. He is currently writing his second book, states a release.
DHNS