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Vol. XXVIII No. 13, October 16-31, 2018
Regular Articles
Quizzin’ with Ramanan
(Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s questions are from September 16th to 30th. Questions 11 to 20 relate to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.) 1. Government recently proposed to merge which three State-owned banks to create India’s third largest lender? 2. Which State has the highest number of people living with HIV, according to the HIV Estimations 2017 report […]
Short N Snappy
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Taking people around Madras The Man from Madras Musings has been around for quite some time in this city of ours. He therefore is ideally placed to give advice on where to go and, more importantly, what to see, particularly if those spots are of the historic kind. This appears to be the understanding of […]
Quizzin’ with Ramanan
(Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s questions are from September 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 relate to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.) 1. What major initiative towards financial inclusion was launched by Prime Minister Modi on September 1st with a capital of Rs. 14.35 billion? 2. Who is the author of the recently-released book Moving On, Moving […]
Dates for your Diary
Till October 28: Paradise Lost – an exhibition of paintings by Adam Khan. Adam is a British artist who lives and works from Kodaikanal. As a backpack traveller in his twenties he travelled to most parts of the world and then from Uganda he landed in Bombay, and finally fell in love with Kodaikanal and […]
Short N Snappy
-MMM
WhatsApp wonders The Man from Madras Musings rarely writes about social media, chiefly because the Chief does not quite like these things. Neither does MMM, but then unlike the Chief he cannot afford to stay away from them either. There were many occasions when he was sorely tempted to write about the menace that lurks […]
Our Readers write
Well foundations Karthik Bhatt (MM, Sep-tember 1st) has wondered why the “unique well foundation” of St. Andrew’s Kirk finds no mention in W.T. Munro’s The Madrasiana, 1868. But it may be noted that a 1982 publication on St. Andrew’s Kirk contains the following observation. “Almost the whole of Fort St. George is seated on wells in […]
Quizzin’ with Ramanan
(Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s questions are from August 16th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 relate to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.) 1. Name the West Bengal athlete who became first Indian to win a Heptathlon gold in the Asian Games. 2. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) recently unveiled details of its first indigenous human space […]
Dates for your Diary
September 21-23: South Indian Puppet Festival 2018. This festival presents the varied arts of Katta Bommalaatam, Tholpaavaikoothu and Gombeyaata from a diverse set of artistes and troupes specially invited from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka – (at DakshinaChitra 11 a.m. -5 p.m.) Till September 29: Painting exhibition by Dhinakara Sundar titled Padma. Dhinakara […]
Short N Snappy
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MMM gets email Madras Week is over. Or is it? The Man from Madras Musings has his doubts for there is no sign of the programmes abating. MMM is still getting invites for breakfasts, lunches and dinners where he is expected to hold forth on Madras, Madras Week, Madras Month and so on. At the […]
Short N Snappy
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To Marina or not to Marina Last fortnight’s happenings, especially the pronouncements of celebrities after they called on an ailing leader of the State, the comings and goings and sloganeering would have all ideally given much grist to this column’s mill. But The Man from Madras Musings does not wish to dwell on that. What […]
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
