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Vol. XXXIII No. 17, December 16-31, 2023
Featured Articles
A time to introspect on our mistakes
-- by Sriram V.
Cyclone Michaung has come and gone. It left behind a trail of destruction. It also seemed tailor-made to expose all our inadequacies. It showed up the city for what it is – built on shoddy infrastructure, with poor planning laid on it, and a willing citizenry that has co-operated with vested interests in bending every […]
My Brush with the Silver Screen
-- by Nandini Vijayaraghavan
Many schoolgirls dream of appearing on the silver screen in film-obsessed India. Fortunately for film goers, this was never my aspiration. Yet I did have my moment on the big screen in the most unexpected of circumstances. Circa the late-1980s, a bunch of schoolgirls including me, after appearing for our annual exams, secured permission from […]
An interactive exhibition with a difference – R.V. Ramani’s Art
-- by Thirupurasundari Sevvel
Beyond the Venue – 4 | An occasional series on art breaking boundaries in the city As we climbed up the stairs to enter the exhibition, we were welcomed with such warmth by Mr. R.V. Ramani, who bade us observe the works of diverse artists. His exhibit displayed the works AL Aparajithan, Muralidharan Krishnamoorthy, Asma […]
Velavan and Rajeev among National Squash title winners
-- by S.R. Suryanarayan
November was the month for the senior national squash championship, hosted at the Indian Squash and Triathlon Academy in Chennai. Among the winners in various categories, two names had added interest because they were from the city. Velavan Senthilkumar emerged victorious in the men’s category while veteran Rajeev Reddy was the pick in the Over-70 […]
Lost Landmarks of Chennai
-- by Sriram V
The river we lost How many rivers does Chennai have? Most people will say just one – the Cooum and sneer even while they say it, as though it is all the river’s fault that it is what it is today. To this lot, all of Chennai’s rivers and canals go by the name of […]
The Joint Sector Days: When a German Giant bit the dust
Business Houses of the South by Sushila Ravindranath
Tamil Nadu Petroproducts Limited (TPL) is one of those pre-liberalisation projects which came up in Chennai during the height of import substitution times. It was promoted by the fertiliser giant SPIC as a joint venture with Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation to manufacture Linear Alkyl Benzine (LAB),
The S.R. Ranganathan I knew
-- by R. Soundararajan, Nagapattinam
It is my good fortune that I could meet Dr. Rao Sahib Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, the doyen of library science, on many occasions in the late 1960s in Bangalore where I was working with the Railway Mail Service a wing of the postal department. He was undoubtedly the greatest scientist in his field that 20th […]
S.S. Badrinath, a pioneering eye-surgeon of Chennai
-- by Suresh Dalapathy, dalapathy@hotmail.com
On 21 November 2023 Madras lost one of its illustrious and remarkable sons: Dr Sengamedu Srinivas Badrinath (SSB). SSB was born on February 24, 1940 in Triplicane, Madras, to S.V. Srinivasa Rao and Lakshmi Devi. He did his schooling in Pennathur Subramaniam (PS) High School, Mylapore and Sri Ramakrishna Mission High School, T.Nagar. He completed […]
Train travails of Senior Citizens
-- by Sabita Radhakrishna
As a child, I loved traveling by train. Which child does not? Window seat? Of course. We were delighted by the ribbons of sunlight that streamed through, and charmed by the vista of a blue sky with fleecy, white clouds that seemed to follow us as we chugged along. We saw emerald green paddy fields with […]
Rowing in Tamil Nadu
-- by V. Venkataramana
It was 150 years ago that the erstwhile state of Madras saw the beginning of a legacy in Rowing, with the birth of the Madras Boat Club at Ennore. With the sport demanding expensive infrastructure – namely boats and unpolluted, expansive water bodies – Rowing was patronized largely by the British community in Madras. It […]
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
