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Vol. XXXIII No. 4, June 1-15, 2023
Regular Articles
Heritage Watch: Remember the Traffic Commissioner’s Office at Vepery?
If you are of a generation that acquired its driving licence in the 1960s and 1970s, you would know this building very well. And if you are a child of that era, chances are
Lost Landmarks of Chennai
-- by Sriram V
From Traffic Commissioner to Police Commissioner’s Office The Police Commissioner’s Office Road may be in Egmore but the official himself now sits in a custom-made multi-storey building located in Vepery. While the story of old Commissioner’s Office is well documented (for the latest read MM, Vol XXXI, No 4, June 1 to 16, 2021), what […]
Short ‘N’ Snappy
– (Wo)MMM
Of vadams and basket cases The Woman from Madras Musings has long been of the view that the older generation of Madras that is Chennai is more inclined to the delightfully absurd than the present one. Some of the stories that the Eternals or their peers casually drop into conversation are positively outrageous, like plots […]
An about turn on Public Hoardings
-- by The Dy. Editor
The Government of Tamil Nadu has decided to permit outdoor hoardings once again in the city. A Government Order has been issued under the Tamil Nadu Urban Local Bodies Act 2022 to this effect. The reason is ostensibly to boost revenue for the cash-starved Greater Chennai Corporation. The actual pressure may well be from elsewhere […]
City to get new skywalk at T’Nagar, the longest in the country
-- by A Special Correspondent
This month, the city will be given a brand new skywalk in T.Nagar courtesy the Greater Chennai Corporation. It will connect the Mambalam railway station to the bus stand near the Madley junction in a bid to alleviate the traffic congestion caused by pedestrian crowds on the roads. 570m long and 4.3m wide, the skywalk […]
Heritage Watch: When Heritage is Obscured
In case you are of the kind that likes to see its heritage buildings sans any obstructions, now is the time to do it. For rather like the camel and the Arab, the large outdoor hoardings are all set to make a comeback to our city. They were banned in 2017 and since then the […]
Lost Landmarks of Chennai
-- by Sriram V
A Property of Chellammal’s Mani’s Auction House as it is popularly known, or to give it its proper and more prosaic name – Mani’s & Co, is located on Royapettah High Road. It specialises in wooden furniture of the more antique variety. It is on my route to and from office and as I drive […]
Short ‘N’ Snappy
The Hole in the Crown The Coronation just got over. The Man from Madras Musings could not care less but he did notice that outside of Ol Blighty it was perhaps in this, our land, that the excitement was at fever pitch. MMM would perhaps not be too wrong in saying that the interest in […]
Yet another ‘restoration’ of Buckingham Canal
-- by The Dy. Editor
Buckingham Canal is back in the news, accompanied by mega budgets for its ‘restoration’. As per the latest announcement made in the Assembly, a sum of Rs. 1,281.88 crores (it is a wonder as to how budgets always are so accurate right down to the second decimal when actuals always vary considerably) has been allotted […]
Marina Loop Road – HC orders clearance of ‘encroachment’ while fishers push for ‘fishers’ zone’
-- by A Special Correspondent
The Marina Loop Road is seeing a storm of activity once again. Running from the Marina Lighthouse up to Foreshore Estate, the stretch along the shores of the Marina beach includes several fishing hamlets in the city such as Nochikuppam, Dooming Kuppam and Rajiv Gandhi Nagar. It is a common sight
In the latest Issue
- Flagging the nuisance of party flag posts
- Rs. 94 crores allocated to restore canals across the city
- Heritage Watch: A Much-Needed Facelift for Museum Theatre
- Stories, Myths, and Conversations – A Study of Trees
- Story of a City Canvas
- What’s up? What’s up?
- Indian rope trick
- Annual Service at the Armenian Church
- Athletics at 87!
- Short ‘N’ Snappy
- Our Readers Write
