Kochiites have welcomed the choice of aquamarine blue as the colour of the Kochi Metro coaches. But with the image of façade and sides of coaches not yet released, speculation is rife about how the colour will look on the coaches.
Kochi Metro officials had some time ago said that the façade will resemble a tusker, with the headlight cluster resembling a pair of tusks. Metro sources said that a technical team is integrating the colour into the proposed exterior and interior design of coaches. “A two or three-dimensional image will be unveiled in a fortnight,” they said.
Till then, netizens would have to be content with the tentative image of a green-coloured metro train as shown on the Kochi Metro Rail website. The first coach is expected to be brought to Kochi by container lorry from Alstom’s coach-manufacturing unit in Chitoor district of Andhra Pradesh.
United by the big C
A crisis has a way of drawing people together.
This was the conviction that inspired Midhun Chacko Thomas and Sudeep P.S, two Kochi-based law graduates, to launching a matrimonial website to help cancer survivors who want to share their life with a partner.
The website www.made4
umatrimony.com , formed to search for suitable brides and grooms from among cancer survivors, was launched on April 15.
The website accepts registrations free of cost from persons of any age. According to Midhun, the portal is part of their efforts to help those who suffered the disease lead a normal family life.
John L. Paul and
Hiran Unnikrishnan
