The Sanmar Library, SanGyan celebrated its fifth anniversary on 23 February 2010. SanGyan is a treasure trove books o n a whole range of subjects including management, motivation, self improvement, human resource management, financial economics, corporate governance, biographies of business leaders, histories of corporates, books on the English language, chemistry and law and a few books on computer and other technical applications.
Participants at the poster making competition on the theme ‘reading to succeed’.
Capt S Krishnamurthi delivering his review on the ‘Book of life’.
In addition to the books for circulation, a separate ‘reference’ collection equipped with DVDs, Audio and Video cassettes and CD-ROMs is also available. The SanGyan theme for this year is Connect@SanGyan.
O n 16 January 2010 the Music Forum on behalf of International Foundation for Fine Arts honoured V Ramnarayan, Editor-in-Chief, Sruti, with the Media Award 2009 at a function at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, “for his valuable contribution to the spread of musical knowledge through media”.
Sruti, India’s leading monthly on the performing arts, is published by The Sruti Foundation, a Sanmar associate. Ramnarayan received the award from Prof Franz de Ruiter, President of International Music Council (UNESCO).
A Flowserve Sanmar employee B Jaishankar, met with a road accident along with his wife on 24 February 2010.
Mrs Kalaichelvi Jaishankar died the next day at the Chettinad Hospital. Displaying great public-spiritedness and generosity, Jaishankar gave permission to harvest six of her body parts.