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Vol. XXVIII No. 16, December 1-15, 2018
Regular Articles
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Poor workmanship While the IIT-M has observed that the workmanship in the Metro Rail (MM, November 16th) was bad, it would have put the IIT, and also your correspondent, in better light, if a root cause analysis for poor workmanship in this country had been carried out by them and explained to the readers. We […]
Quizzin’ with Ramanan
(Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s questions are from November 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 relate to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.) 1. On November 1st, who became the fifth Indian cricketer to be formally inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame? 2. The Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has decided to cut listing time […]
SHORT ’N’ SNAPPY
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Bring on the plastic pots The Man from Madras Musings is perpetually looking up at the sky, rather like one of those cultivators in famine films that the 1950s so specialised in. And not a cloud can he see. The weather department, whose words nobody can trust, had promised monsoons as early as October 10th […]
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Pillboxes and litter Apropos pillboxes/bunkers, (MM, November 1st) although I am not an Army man, I agree with the Editor that these are mainly for coastal defence. I had seen some of them on the Belgian coast in Europe. We see them also in WWII films like The Longest Day. I had seen the ARP […]
Quizzin’ with Ramanan
(Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s questions are from October 16th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 relate to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.) 1. On October 30th, the foundation for India’s largest dry dock was laid in which southern port city? 2. In which Eurasian Capital was the world’s largest airport terminal under one roof, with a capacity […]
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Rain, rain, where art thou? The Man from Madras Musings looks out via the window even as he types this. In the sky above, there is not a cloud and yet this was the date that the weathermen/women had given out for the arrival of the monsoon. The rains have tricked the Met Office twice […]
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Endangered parks The implications of Geeta Doctor’s passing mention of the CMRL’s plans for an underground line/station (MM, October 1, 2018), has me all knotted up. Much as I would like to shut my eyes to the fact, soil testing aka ‘Geotechnical’ testing, is indeed going on within the Chetpet Eco Park which lies alongside […]
Quizzin’ with Ramanan
(Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s questions are from October 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 relate to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.) 1. Name the present CJI sworn in on October 3. 2. Which famous type of mango from Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Palghar, Thane and Raigad Districts of Maharashtra got a Geographical Indication (GI) recently? 3. Which Nobel […]
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Public Service, Chennai Style Mylapore, which to The Man from Madras Musings is the centre of the universe, becomes quite unapproachable during the festival of nine nights aka Navaratri. Doll sellers occupy the pavements, such as they are, and set up displays of their wares. The civic authorities, who in MMMs view, consider our street […]
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Greens of Madras The natural history cameo in Geeta Doctor’s ‘Memories of Chetpet’ was excellent. It ties in neatly with my experience when I was out on a morning walk – not in Chetpet but T. Nagar – and saw a woman picking some pavement greens. What she was gathering was the leaf of the […]
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
