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Wednesday, Jul 25, 2007
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IT Park celebrates ‘green week’

Staff Reporter

CHENNAI: Three celebrities from the film world — actor Kamal Hassan, director K.S. Ravi Kumar and art director Thotta Tharani — joined hands with an information technology park in the city to signal its ‘green week’ celebration.

Olympia Technology Park in Ekkaduthangal began a week-long celebration on Monday with the celebrities launching a signature campaign and planting saplings.

Kamal Hassan thanked the ‘patchai’ (green) Tamilan for greeting his ‘patchai thamizh’.

“I did not come to speak politics. I come from a family that sympathised with the Congress. But, I cannot help recalling that in the 1960s about 150 trees were axed for laying roads,” he said. “That mistake has been rectified now,” the actor said.

Chennai Corporation Mayor M. Subramanian praised Olympia Technology Park’s Managing Director Ajit Chordia’s efforts to maintain a green campus.

The week-long celebrations include a photo contest, sale of eco-friendly products and screening of the film ‘An inconvenient truth’. A part of the proceeds from the sale will go to the World Wide Fund for Nature.

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