Chennai Sangamam-Namma Oor Thiruvizha Chennai Sangamam, a cultural extravaganza is being held at Chennai city in 18 locations from January 13-17 Series of cultural performances, literary events like seminars, poetry, dramas, and debates by eminent personalities will also take place. Objective of the event: To spread awareness among the public on less known artforms Operation Black The ‘Operation Black’ was launched to capture a wild elephant nicknamed Karuppan It is also planned to fix a radio collar and translocate it in Talavadi Hills About Karuppan: Karuppan is wild tusker found involved in human-elephant conflict and massive crop destruction at Rangasamy Kovil and Joraikadu areas of Erode district