AFVOA Newletters of Year 2011

Page 3 of 44 ARMED FORCES VETERAN OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION CHENNAI (Established 1994) Patron Lt Gen C Sundara Rao, PVSM Tele: 24461085 President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Maj Gen Brig Lt Col Lt Col KS Chattaraman, Mohan Thomas, CR Sundar, M Narayanan, EME AOC Madras Engrs Tele: 22348394 Tele: 22294080 Tele: 22290186 Tele: 24488546 No 1 of 2011 Newsletter #01/2011 01 Jan 2011 (FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS ONLY) The next bi-monthly meeting of our Association will be our Annual Picnic on 09 Jan 2011. The venue, as in the years past will be Camp Gloria on the East Coast Road. Camp Gloria is in Nemmeli Village, 3km away from the Crocodile Bank. Kindly read the instructions elsewhere and send in your confirmations on time to Lt Col M Narayanan, Ph.: 2448 8546, 98847 54610 before 03 Jan 2011. Armed forces Veteran Officer’ Association Wishes All Members A Happy New Year And a A Prosperous 2011 From the Editorial Team NO SCAMS IN OUR DAYS These are days when the visual medium and the print medium are racing against each other to give us atleast one scam a day. Some days we are lucky and get to hear of more than one scam. These scams cover a vast range in our lives. There are scams about tangible, touchable things such as land, buildings and fodder and also about intangible, ethereal, indescribable matter such as the electromagnetic frequency spectrums. There seems to be no end of the subjects for scam. But the bottom line in all scams seem to be an unquenchable desire on the part