Sri Adhi Kesava Perumal vana bhojanam & nokia phone 2008 !!

 For humans of this Century – the most preferred companion is a Mobile phone ! – they see, touch, search and spend life on it …  around 26 years ago when this century was born, not many possessed Cell phones and the  undisputed champion and cultural icon of the year 2000 was the Nokia 3310. Released in Q4 2000, it became one of the best-selling phones in history (shifting 126 million units) and is globally famous for its rugged durability, incredible battery life, and the addictive built-in game Snake.  Did you use one ?? 

There is never a dull moment in Thiruvallikkeni divyadesam ~ amidst so many uthsavams and after the Aani brahmothsavam of Sri Azhagiya Singar,    and on a day when there is no  purappadu 12.7.2026 .. .. .. Allikkeni was active still.  Kaliyan singing about the divyadesam calls it ‘maada maa Mayilai Thiruvallikkeni’ [singing Mylapore and Triplicane together as the place with palatial buildings !]  .. .. and there was vanabhojana uthsavam of Thirumylai Sri Adhi Kesava Perumal 

Not fully a Perumal post; the centre is of course Perumal and a photo being taken back in 2008 !!!  

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, in the Helsinki metropolitan area.   It was founded as a pulp mill and had long been associated with rubber and cables, but since the 1990s has focused on large-scale telecommunications infrastructure, technology development, and licensing. However, in recent years  Nokia suffered from a series of poor management decisions and soon saw its share of the mobile phone market drop sharply. 

The camera mobiles were in nascent stage in mid 2000s in the sense not many purchased fearing its higher costs – there was one model  : Nokia 6120 Classic and it had 2-megapixel Camera. It  was   a classic candybar design, a glossy black case and curved edges with a silver trim. It had a  mini-USB connection at the bottom for data transfers.  It also carried place for a 256MB microSD card !     

The 6120 in fact had  two cameras -- a 2-megapixel one on the back for taking photos and a lower-res one on the front for video calls. There was an LED flash on the back and nightmode to assist taking shots in the dark.  The memory card can   fit around 64 songs !!   The battery life on the 6120 was simply  great – one could manage  four days between charges with average use of calls and SMS.  In India it was around Rs.10000 at that time, a princely sum !!  

 

Back on 1^st June 2008   Thirumylai Sri Adhi Kesava Perumal had vana bhojanam at Thiruvallikkeni  Vanamamalai Mutt  - here is a photo taken with Konica Minolta dImage camera with someone taking photo in Nokia mobile.

 
Regards – S Sampathkumar
11.7.2026