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Vol. XXXIV No. 12, October 1-15, 2024
Featured Articles
The Puliyodharai Missile – A Chepauk Memory
-- by V.Vijaysree, v.vijaysree@gmail.com
Chennai’s M. A. Chidambaram stadium in Chepauk is considered the home of the “knowledgeable cricket crowd.” Who coined this phrase, on what occasion, and when it appeared in print first: such details remain obscure, even unimportant. There is one thing we are certain about: the spectators in Chepauk spectacularly lived up to this badge of […]
The Cinematic Side of Manikkodi
-- by S Muthuvel
I recently read the book Manikkodi Kalam by B.S. Ramaiah, and also leafed through (roughly) 40 issues of Manikkodi magazine published between 1936 and 1939. The periodical’s history has been covered before in the writings of those like A. R. Venkatachalapathy and others. These days, Manikkodi is pegged as a serious, literary magazine. To clear the misconception, writer Kadarkarai has […]
Woodlands Drive-In rides again, in Poonamallee
-- by Geeta Doctor
It’s Mangalore bonda time at the Woodlands Drive-In restaurant on Poonamallee high road. You bite into the tiny puffballs of fried batter light as air. Dip one half of the bonda into a steel katori with white coconut chutney and take a swipe of the sambhar next to it and Poof! You feel like you’re Alamelu in Wonderland who’s fallen into […]
When 97 is Just a Number
-- by Srinivasa Chari
Visiting the Hande Hospital in Shenoy Nagar and sitting with its pater familias Dr H. Venkataramana Hande, physician to the hoi polloi (leading the treatment of MGR when he took critically ill in 1984 is a different and compelling story), wise politico and author of books including a prose rendering in English of the Kamba […]
Night racing comes to Chennai
-- by S.R. Suryanarayanan
Talk of motor racing and instantly come memories of Sholavaram for old timers and then the Madras International circuit in Irungattukottai for the fans in relatively recent times. They say Chennai has a distinct tennis culture. Sure enough it also has a motor sport love that is something to be seen. No wonder then that […]
Art exhibition during Madras Week
As part of Madras Week, an exhibition was organised at Lalit Kala Akademi. A set of paintings on display are featured here. Pics by S. Lashman.
Madras Quiz
Source: From LinkedIn by Ramkumar Ramamurthy of Catalincs.
1. An IT company is approaching 100,000 employees in Chennai. Identify. 2. There are six educational institutions in India where the Top 5 IT companies have individually made more than 1,000 job offers in one or more annual campus recruitment seasons. Five of these educational institutions are in Tamil Nadu, and four in Chennai. Which […]
Our Readers Write
Monsoon measures The Greater Chennai Corporation is taking all initiative to face the upcoming monsoon showers, which includes chopping of the overgrown branches of the avenue trees and cleaning up of drain and rain water harvesting channels.
Chennai Heritage-Madras Musings Lecture Series for Madras Week 2024
The Madras Musings Madras Day 2024 programmes began on Saturday, August 17 and continued till August 25. We give below a brief report on the events. August 17 : Forgotten Games of Chennai, by Vinita Sidhartha. To the speaker, board games of the historic kind have long been a passion. She has spent several years […]
In the latest Issue
- A blot on the medical capital
- Notification of apartment development rules paves the way for residential benefits
- A Judge recalls Madras and its High Court
- Kottur – The Core of Kotturpuram
- How Chennai became an auto hub
- The Accidental Chennaite
- A Report on the first ever Buchi Babu Nayudu Tournament (1909)
- Please Bear With Us
- Short ‘N’ Snappy
- Our Readers Write
