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Vol. XXXIII No. 23, March 16-31, 2024
Featured Articles
R. Desikan: the spirit and cheer of Max Mueller Bhavan (Madras) between 1964 and 1992
-- by Anantanarayanan Raman, anant@raman.id.au
To promote a dynamic cross-cultural relationship between India and Germany, the Max Mueller Bhavan (MMB, Goethe-Institut) came into existence in the later years of the 1950s, celebrating the life and works of Friedrich Max Mueller (1823–1900), an eminent Indologist, philologist, and philosopher. Concurrently with the start of MMB-s in New Delhi, Bombay, Poona, Calcutta, and […]
Dr. Eric Miller – the man behind the Chennai Storytelling Festival
-- by R.V. Rajan, rvrajan42@gmail.com
The Chennai Storytelling Festival 2024, held in February this year, was an enormous success! It attracted more than 100 storytellers, and hundreds more storytelling aficionados, from around the globe. The event, which occurred fully via videoconferencing, was masterminded by an American settled in Chennai. Yes, I am talking about Dr. Eric Miller who is a big […]
Danger – Talking Greyheads Ahead
-- by Ranjitha Ashok
You know how it is with us senior/ super-senior citizens…we like to talk. We have stories to tell, memories to share … as we should. But perhaps we need some rules in place? Especially since self-regulation is such a laughable concept for us most times. Like while reminiscing, for instance.
Meet Keerthana, a leg-spinner from TN bagged by Mumbai Indians
-- by V. Venkataramana
It was only since the 2016 edition of the Men’s T20 Indian Premier League (IPL) that leg spinners, akin to pace bowlers, began to be recognised as potential match winners by various franchises. Now, the Women’s Premier League (WPL) launched by the Indian Cricket Board last year has brought into the limelight S.B. Keerthana, a […]
Heritage Watch: Syne of the Tymes
This was the standard heading that the late Chief used whenever he had to publish atrociously spelt English. The first as far as we can remember was a photo by Harry Miller of a wall that carried the message – Do not Uran Hare. All of this came rapidly to mind when your Deputy Editor
City Beautiful then, Singara Chennai now
On Dec 3, 1968, the then Mayor of Madras, Velur Narayanan, addressed the Rotary Club of Madras. We reproduce here the report of the event, courtesy Lighthouse, the weekly bulletin of the Rotary Club of Madras. We leave it to our readers to gauge whether civic conditions have changed (or not) in the city. – […]
Going Walkabout in Madras
-- by T.K. Srinivas Chari
It all began with a walk from Thiruvanmiyur to Besant Nagar along the beach shores in early-mid 2023. A year later, we’re hoping that that beginning – which has taken us all over town and more – will one day take us trekking in the Himalayas. A tall order, yes… but what the heck, one lives […]
An ode to the Dressing Table
-- by Sabita Radhakrishna
I grew up with the concept of a dressing table. A bedroom was not complete unless it had a dressing table with drawers and a long mirror. If the bedroom was too small to accommodate this invaluable piece of furniture, the dressing table occupied another room attached to the main bedroom which we called dressing […]
The Blackboard: A space for expression and exploration
-- by Priyanka Soman
Priyanka Soman is an educator who has inherited her passion for teaching children from her mother, a teacher herself. She has ten years of experience working with children in Junior, Middle, and Senior School and has been working at The School, KFI, for the past seven years. Priyanka has a strong affinity for Krishnamurti’s teachings, […]
Sport in Old Madras
– Extracted from The Nabobs of Madras by Henry Dodwell, 1926
Any time you want to get a good laugh out of the antics of the British in Madras, Dodwell is the answer. Here he is, holding forth on what constituted sport in 17th and 18th century Madras. – The Editor In a country where Englishmen had horses, there was naturally hunting, though it were after […]
In the latest Issue
- Good tidings from Gokhale Hall
- Bigger not always better – Can Chennai Airport convert features into strengths?
- Heritage Watch: A Brief timeline of Gokhale Hall
- Breaking the Fast during Ramadan
- The great flap of 1942 – How the Raj panicked over a Japanese non invasion
- Colonial Stories – 1: Strange case of an unintended death by poison
- TMS Biography
- Indian TT sets sights on conquering the Olympics
- Short ‘N’ Snappy
- Our Readers Write
