Umasree Raghunath

Saturday, December 10, 2022

Food Review : Chef Adrain's Great Wall Restaurant Besant Nagar Chennai - Visited 11 Dec 2022

Amazing dining experience with awesome n authentic Chinese cuisine...our go to place for good dinner experience. The service is remarkable and fast, experienced staff and caters quickly. The food is fresh n meat is juicy and well blended with natural colours, spices and flavors. Their choice n variety makes this place a family restaurant.

The ambience is rich and convenient for a great experience. We ordered Mancho soup, pepper stirred mushroom fry, chicken satay and Egg friend rice, and finished with their signature dessert Caramel Custard. Very pocket friendly and customer friendly restaurant.

 I was excited to meet the chef Adrian as the Chicken Satay was out of the world and it was so nice of him n his co-promoter Besant Ravi to meet us and also oblige to my request for a picture with them.  Very cordial staff and friendly place where we frequent for a good food experience above all.   

The location is convenient with ample on road parking and lift for differently abled also to access the restaurant in second floor.

Best of all is the patronage to the place we got to make as we enjoy the food and service.   

We have been loving Chinese food in Adyar Luis Waldrof, Panda express in USA and now Great Wall takes over it all.  Must visit for those who seek authetic chinese food and good service.  Thanks to Chef Adrian n his friend Ravi for bringing this place to please our taste buds...

Friday, December 2, 2022

Expectations of the society from Doctors - A Talk - for First Year Medical Students of Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chrompet, Chennai 02 Dec 2022

#motivationalspeaker #sreebalajmedicalcollege #doctors #FreshersOrientation, #umasreeraghunath

Its amazing addressing students always, above all,  loved today addressing white coat students of Sree Balaji Medical College, Chrompet, Chennai on "Expectations on doctors from patients".  

It was well received session where we discussed about need for Transparency, Empathy, Effective Communication, Affordable medical care, Ethics, Honesty, Attentive listening, Care and Collaboration,

Access to doctors and clear instructions. Thank you Johnson Swamydason doctor for this wonderful opportunity.

With this lecture which had nearly 
250+ medical students, I crossed addressing more than 20000 students in this journey.  

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Purush Anthology - Kavya Kumbh -An Anthology series after Shakthi by Arindham Roy - Dec 2022

Poem 1: Divine Light!

Smile is the name of the man

who gave me life and love like no one!

Tiny, sick, unpleasant, dirty infant was I

He cuddled me to his heart without a sigh

showered with his love in abundance

kisses, gifts, blessings shined in radiance

Made me a girl with boy’s attitude

to face the world with strong fortitude

Empathy, compassion, and care injected

Same time, invoked the kali when needed

Fed us with food, good thoughts, and deeds

Never preached but lived life the way we should lead

Prepared us for miracles and miseries of life

readied to handle roles of mother or a wife

when his death came knocking him early

I watched him go in silence, holding memories dearly!!!

Poem 2: Man with misty eyes!

Silent, soft, and unspoken man to begin

His eyes spoke million things when words failed

Tears and few words on our first night muddled

Fears erupted in his eyes of losing his beloved

As a new bride, we welcomed a new stranger

his hallucinated friend who would not let us free

Love, affection, and bonding grew stronger

so did his troubles and helplessness much deeper

He stared into the skies with thoughtlessness

struggling to deal with the world’s unkindness

Then came little angel, the apple his eye

despite of his fear, she was his bundle of joy

Together, we raised, above the social norms

focused on send off the stranger around

toiled day and night together in life with love

today, we are a happy family in his grove

About the Poet:

Umasree Raghunath is a Senior IT Director, Author/ Blogger/ Poet/ Lawyer/ Diversity & Inclusion Social Activist/ Motivational Speaker, Past President - Inner Wheel Club of Madras South, President-eWIT (Empowering Women in IT), Chennai, India. .

Umasree has close to 400 poems across various themes, 800+ blog posts, several short stories, 2 published books – ‘Simply Being Sidds’ and ‘After the Floods’ and several articles on various subjects, situations and emotions and been writing since she was 13 years old. She is also having a live blog in her own name. And part of several poetry anthologies of both National and International repute.

Ragging - A menace that need to be eradicated in the Colleges and Educations institutions once for all ! In Deccan Chronicle -01 Dec 22

Ragging is a menace that can have effect on physical, mental and social wellbeing of the youngsters

The human tendency to dominate has to be removed with the effective regulations and formulating proper guidelines before it shows its ugly face.

Ragging is educational institutions continues to exist with the notion of acceptability as students consider it as socially acceptable ritual. This notion has to be removed from the beginning and strict enforceable laws to be explained in case the rules are broken in the institutions

Sexual repression in any form to be condemned and covering of the act of ragging to be stopped as this effects demoralization amongst students, and encourages suicidal tendencies and promotes violence. Strict punishments have be given and also widely informed in media, as these acts strengthens the perpetrator if not punished

Any form of human rights abuse should not gain political field group and promote exploitation and hence to be condemned strongly by the government and administrative authorities

to instill fear and responsibility amongst students

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Pandan Club - Chennai - First ever Peranakan Restaurant in Chennai - A Must Visit Place for Food lovers #PandanClub #Peranakan

The first ever Peranakan Restaurant in India, especially in our Chennai is a great delight to food lovers. Thanks to Australian MasterChef Sashi Chellaih n Manoj Padmanabhan for bringing such delightful cuisine to our city. Everything about this place is to rave about. Quietly placed in mid of T Nagar, accessibility is a great advantage. The ambience is elite and the environment is classy n friendly staff make it a most hospitable dining experience

Coming to the menu, they have a lavish combination that touches n teases our taste buds n make you feel wanting more of it.   Both the veg n non veg starters were mouthwatering and blended with international standards n Indian spices. 

The food bowls were customized pottery that gives you a comfort feel n at same time enjoy the unique design of the cutlery n plates, which are unique n custom made...

The sea food was amazing, the chicken n lamb was perfectly cooked and the mocktails were blended well with our taste n interest.    

The main course was excellent with crispy breads and matching veg fried rice and dishes that gave a uplift to both breads n rice. The blacknut mutton curry tempts my tongue even after hours of finishing eating it ....

Coming to the desserts, they have a MasterChef designed desserts specially that would somehow make u feel like keeping place in your tummy to relish more.  Trust me , I had spikes of adrenaline eating at Pandan Club today

Thanks to the staff, who were very courteous and took good care to ensure we had a very cherishing experience....and browny points go to the photo opportunity we had with Shashi n Manoj.   Amazing concept, I m sure this 5 star dining experience out side a 5 star or 7 star restaurant will make Pandan Club not only successful but a place to look forward for repeated visits

For all special occasions, this is one place that will leave a great mark to make dining out memorable. 

For those who seek, different cuisine, delightful time with family n friends, I can strongly recommend Pandan Club  9 of our friends went and we thoroughly enjoyed and got a chance to taste most of the dishes as we were a group of food lovers wanting to enjoy the experimental cuisine new to us...and glad we did !

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

RMD Care - Awareness session on 'Elderly Care Management at Homes' and 'Caregiver perspective on Dementia" at M K Speciality Clinic, R A Puram, MRC Nagar, Chennai

RMD Care Started RMD Complete Care - An Assisted living facility for elders - who need home care, living assistance, diet food, counselling and medical care and homelike place to stay for longer.

This facilities provides timely medical and personal care to elders who are staying away from their children and families but need a home-atmosphere with health and hygiene support

In this process, RMD is conducting awareness sessions on elderly care every Wednesday @M K Specialty

Clinic in MRC Nagar at 10 am -11.30 am . We created campaign on Dementia- Caregivers perspective and awareness session on "how to manager elders at home who need assistance"