Events

FOOD

DELICIOUSNESS

All month, all day Le Méridien Coimbatore, 762, Avinashi Road Tel: 236-4343

Give into deliciousness as you indulge in bite-sized pizzas, crafted by Chef Akhilesh! Drop by for a feast, little Italy on a plate.

FAVOURITE RECIPES

All month, all day Le Méridien Coimbatore, 762, Avinashi Road Tel: 236-4343

An irresistible feast in its true form! Experience Favola’s best recipes as our chefs curate the freshest of ingredients and put-together your favourites.

SPECIAL MENU

All month, all day Welcomhotel By ITC Hotels, 1266/14, W Club Road, Race Course, Gopalapuram Tel: 73977-54260

Featuring our special Mutton Rogan Josh! Relish this signature dish with your loved ones on your next stay with us.

EXQUISITE CULINARY

All month, all day Welcomhotel By ITC Hotels, 1266/14, W Club Road, Race Course, Gopalapuram Tel: 73977-54260

Treat yourself along with your loved ones for an exquisite culinary experience.

SUNDAY BRUNCH

Sundays, 12pm-3pm Radisson Blu Hotel Coimbatore, 164, 165, Avinashi Road, Peelamedu Tel: 222-6000

Indulging in irresistible dishes at the splending brunch.

PARTY

GENTLEMEN NIGHT

Tuesday, 6pm-11pm Le Méridien Coimbatore, 762, Avinashi Road Tel: 236-4343

Latitude 11 is calling all the gentlemen for a tipsy Tuesday night! Buy 2 get 1 and 20% off on your favourite drinks.

BARTENDER

All month, all day Le Méridien Coimbatore, 762, Avinashi Road Tel: 236-4343

Keep calm and let our expert bartender handle it! Just sit back, soak in the ambiance of Latitude 11 and enjoy your favourite drink!

STAND UP COMEDY

KD NO 1 BY KARTHI DURAI

May 7, 6.30pm Rotary texcity, Sungam Bypass Road, T Nagar, Ramanathapuram Tel: 93448-33706

In this one hour Tamil special, KD makes fun of all things relatable, from his parents not letting him watch kissing scenes as a kid to him never understanding the concept of driving or even dating for that matter.

OPEN MIC

May 22, Online Streaming

Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary one.

SPA

BUNDLE OF WELLNESS

All month, all day Radisson Blu Hotel Coimbatore, 164, 165, Avinashi Road, Peelamedu Tel: 222-6000 Switch-off and immerse yourself in a day dedicated to self-care. Signature spa treatments are designed to soothe all your senses and knead away unwanted stress.

CONTEST

MOM AND KID CHEF

May 28, 3pm onwards Prozone Mall, Saravanampatti Tel: 662-8111

Fireless cooking competition.

EXHIBITION

GO GLAM SHOPPING EXHIBITION

May 27-29, 10am-9pm The Residency Towers, 1075, Avinashi Road Tel: 224-1414

Organisers of hi fashion lifestyle shopping exhibition with numerous super successful events.

WORKSHOP

MANOJ BAJPAYEE TEACHES ACTING

May 8-29, 7pm Online Streaming

Meet your acting guru, Manoj Bajpayee. Manoj is the genius behind many iconic roles in various modern classics such as Gangs Of Wasseypur, Family Man, Satya, and more. Manoj teaches you how to crack auditions, break down the script, catch dialects, improvise, train your voice and deliver, all while successfully dealing with criticism and keeping in touch with reality.

FACIAL OIL

Instant Access Anytime Online

Learn to make different types of face oil.

SMARTPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY

May 7-31, 11am, 1pm, 7pm, 10pm Watch on Zoom

This part of the course is to learn how to operate the native camera application in the smartphones. As smartphone native camera doesn’t provide you the flexibility on video making & we must need to switch to external camera applications, which are available in “Google Play Store” for Android operating system & Appstore for iPhones.

MUSIC

ENNAMMA KANNU - SOWKKIYAMA?

May 22, 6.30pm Hindusthan College of Arts & Science, Avinashi Road Tel: 444-0555 First time ever in Coimbatore, Shri. SP Charan and Yugendran is going to sing. Its going to be a big celebration to Shri. SPB and Shri Malaysia Vasudevan by their sons and play back singer Shri. SP Charan and Shri. YUGENDRAN along with airtel super singer Anu and team mounarraagam.

LEARN KERALA MURAL PAINTING

May 9, 5pm Watch on Zoom Are you an artist interested in learning the traditional art of India?

Then let`s learn Kerala Mural Painting. Kerala Mural Painting refers to those paintings which contain priceless information about our past and cultural heritage. These paintings depict Hindu mythology and were used to decorate the walls of temples in Kerala. The paintings follow a set of rules regarding elements and colors and techniques and this class will a brief introduction to these.

LEARN FABRIC PAINTING

May 9, 12pm Watch on Zoom Fabric painting is one of the most creative hobbies that many artists learn. Every fashion-savvy person or artist who loves customization will upskill themselves and give colors to their beautiful creations. Play with a creative hobby and bring your design ideas to life!

Neena Kishore is not just the Group General Manager of Gokulam Group of Hotels, one of South India’s leading names in the hospitality field, she is an industry in her own right! The dynamic lady has been changing the face and factors of hospitality since the last 20-odd years, in multiple ways with her passion, zeal and vision to make a difference every day. Starting out as a young trainee as a mere teenager, Neena Kishore slowly grew into her role, learning the ropes step by step, working her way up to managerial levels by sheer dint of her hard work and unwavering dedication to learn, work, understand ,improve, internalise, and then slowly bring her own dynamism into play by infusing everyday activities and requirements with something extra. This “extra” was always her own understanding of the power of being human, and how and we can do just about anything as long as we use common sense and stay positive. As she says,”We humans are the most powerful creatures in the world. People say don’t expect anything, and accept everything. I say just live and explore your one time life. We have only 36,500 days on this planet, which is 8 lakh hours only! So what are we doing with our lives in this limited time? This is the power of humans – we can do anything, whether positive, negative or neutral.” Neena expounds on the concept of common sense, which is all about what is today, and what is next. What you see is the only thing that matters, some people are born blessed, with privileges. But even if you‘re not born privileged, you can come up with common sense, hard work and dedication. She tells people to not lose hope ever, that they can do anything they like. “Common sense is all we need no

Our Chairman Gokulam Gopalan... who trusted me and gave group general manager posting.. he encourages all talents to come forward... he will give free hand to prove ourselves... He is always proud to see his employees growth in career... My hearty thanks to our sir.

matter where we come from. Just like when a child is born, he knows what to do, how to come out of his mother’s womb. It’s all natural. We should not lose with natural sense as we grow older, rather we should build upon it and use it in our daily lives as well,” she says. Giving her own example of how she has come up the hard way with dedication and eagerness to learn, she says she has come up in life not by reading books, but by observing and through positive reactivity to the observations. As Group GM of Gokulam Group of Hotels, as in-charge across India - Neena has proved her mettle as a leader and guide to her juniors.

She believes in problem solving leadership, and guiding those who look up to her to find solutions. In the hotels and hospitality industry, as a new employee or junior, one’s job is to learn by doing. As a senior her role is to take on responsibility so she tells senior staff to respect the post and positon they hold, and guide the juniors positively to create a good future wherein some good things can be left in the world for others to follow. Says Neena, “God created more gods as humans, and as leaders, we are all gods with the responsibility to guide, lead, mentor positively and leave a positive footprint in the world. It’s not about a managing job, but a job about managing people.” she says, “I don’t manage hotels, I manage people. Manage people properly and everything else will fall in place.”

In 2018, Neena Kishore joined Gokulam Park, after previous stints in The Residency, Le Meridien, Aloft, Park Plaza, Radisson and others. Since then she has displayed strong leadership in her role. During Covid in the last couple of years, the hospitality industry was hit hard, with no travel, no guests, and no business. At Gokulam group too, this was a period where there weren’t any travellers traffic and the revenue stream dried up. The hospitality industry was like a patient

after accident. Now after Covid, recovery of this sector has restarted but different levels of employees have to be handled differently. Top and middle management were able to hold on in this difficult period but the junior levels of employees had to get a lot of hand-holding, counselling and training to tide through. Further after the long gap, they had to reattune themselves to understand their roles and responsibilities. Neena made it her mission to encourage and empower the juniors to bring them up to speed once again, her focus was to teach them the importance of grooming, punctuality and discipline as these are key factors in the hospitality field. In fact, she exhorts hotel management courses to include these topics in their curriculum, so it becomes part of their personality and the must-have qualities to discharge their function properly. Hotel management colleges must also provide basic body language and communication skills training for their students to make them ready for the demands of the hospitality industry. All levels of employees like kitchen, stewarding, housekeeping, engineering, security need proper training. Neena emphasizes the importance of hotel management students to be taught hospitality behaviour like smiling, wishing, grooming and communication skills before they are taught the subject matter, as these soft skills are what will really help them to perform better in hotels. Taking the lower levels of staff and juniors along and empowering them to function to optimum levels, is very high on Neena’s agenda as she feels that only an empowered employee can work best for any organisation, especially in a customer-facing environment where spot decisions need to be made often on the ground. Not just in the workplace but even in life in general, Neena’s philosophy centres around creating a perfect present today, in the moment, every minute of the day, in order to create a healthy future

with the right environment, where people can perform at optimum levels all the time. In her larger quest and mission, she has been amply supported by Gokulam Group Chairman Gokulam Gopalan. She credits him with trusting her on her journey at Gokulam and giving her group General Manager posting, as well as giving her a free hand to come forward with ideas and prove herself, as he has done with other employees as well – the mark of a true visionary leader. On a personal note, she also credits her husband Kishore for giving her confidence and motivating her to face all levels of challenges, as well as her daughter Livana who has always been cooperative in her endeavours to extend her support to the lesser privileged in society. The larger vision that Neena embodies is an amalgamate of far-reaching philosophy and a compassionate heart. She wants to use her knowledge and experience and her privileged position which she enjoys today after much hard work to help people around her.

Starting with her own teams and juniors to instill them with confidence to achieve, she wants to extend her support to underprivileged children in sports, which can become a springboard for them to get free education and good job opportunities, to provide their families with basic needs like food, clothing, shelter, education and healthcare. She feels that even tribals should be encouraged and supported to come out and compete in mainstream sports – where they may naturally be better than city trained athletes. Even the differently abled need to be provided with all opportunities keeping in mind their special needs, for instance, basic accessibility in public areas through wide spread usage

of ramps everywhere. Her heart beats also for old and marginalised people who are relegated to old age homes by their own children. Even transgenders should be provided with equal opportunities to participate in sports and society meaningfully. Men, women, children, underprivileged, old people, transgenders, the differently - abled in an ideal world, all these sections should be given opportunities to realise their own potential and contribute to society. Humanity in all its variety and colours should be celebrated as

the most powerful force in the universe. With such lofty ideals and visionary ideas, Neena Kishore has been growing, learning, teaching and influencing every day in every way, and trying to leave her mark on those whose life she touches. Her juniors look up to her as the Iron Lady, the tigress who embraces and educates them in equal measure. Neena Kishore has spread her wings and is soaring high to improve not just her work space but the world at large. More power to her, may her tribe increase!