Aadit, Mantri's first-born, completes Year One

Aadit,  Mantri's first-born, completes one year today.  We caught up with him when grandma - Champa Chakraborti - was taking Aadit around Mantri's on a  stroller. And on our request, the birthday boy and his grandma posed for a picture with the shenbagum plant we have named after Aadit.
The planting of the shenbagum in June last year  marked the start of our community planting programme. We have since planted 20 saplings in  Mantri Synergy apartment complex. We have planted another shenbagum , named after schoolboy Srinivas ; we have planted  neems named after Nitya and Aadhya ( driveway pot-painters), after my grandsons - Sidharth and Nikhil - when they started going to pre-school in California. Recently  a mango was planted in celebration of  Advik (the second child to be born at Mantri's).
Under our community planting programme we have had saplings planted to celebrate the first resident to move in at Mantri's - Mr Nambir - the first elected executive committee of our association; and to celebrate the visit of Santa Ujjal on the first Christmas at Mantri's.

Adit comes home, to Mantri's

His grandma picked up the phone when I called to enquire how Mantri Synergy's first-born was doing. The baby boy, born to Smitha and Arya Chakraborti (F-904) at Chettinad Hospital , was brought home, to Mantri Synergy a couple of days back.
A happy grandmother, inviting us home to bless the child, said they had named him Adit (which, she said, means teak). She added her husband Ardhendo, however, prefers to call his grandson Akash. The grandparents welcomed our suggestion that the Mantri's residents community should celebrate the birth of Adit by planting a sapling at our complex. A few of us who have appointed ourselves to an organizing committee are working it, and a date for planting the 'community sapling' would be announced soon, in consultation with the Chakraborti family.