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Vol. XXXIV No. 17, December 16-31, 2024

Regular Articles

Short ‘N’ Snappy

– MMM

Stand Aside MMM! The Man from Madras Musings is not sure about you lovely people out there but in matters of deadlines, MMM is of the kind who likes to plan well in advance and ensure everything is in order. In this he differs markedly from his good lady, also known as She Who Must […]

Our Readers Write

Stop it They start their rounds early in the morning, around 5 am. They appear every fifteen or twenty minutes, going round and round, one after the other; they make an unbearable noise and spew the air with dirt and gaseous pollutants. Many road rage deaths take place, to boot. We’re talking about the heavy-duty […]

WRD proposes flood alleviation measures — But much of the problem is man-made

-- by Sriram V.

The Water Resources Department (WRD) has in the past one week come up with some flood-alleviation measures for the city. At long last, the schemes have taken into account the direction of flow of flood waters and also identified certain areas that are chronically prone to flooding during the rains. These schemes, if implemented well, […]

Velachery Lake encroachment: Residents deserve a fair resolution

-- by Varsha V.

Following a directive from the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the Water Resources Department (WRD) has begun a survey of the Velachery Lake encroachments. According to the WRD, rainwater runoff from the Guindy National Park and IIT Madras flows into the lake before reaching the sea; but the lake has shrunk from 265 acres to a […]

Heritage Watch: Once Upon a Bank Building

Philip Thornton put up on Facebook last week this photograph of the Agra Bank building which stood at the intersection of Armenian Street and Esplanade. Our OLD, published here with permission from Philip, is taken at an unusual angle, facing east, with Anderson’s Church to the rear of the building.

From Judge to Justice

(Continued from last fortnight) The Memoirs of Justice Natarajan, Part II My elevation in February 1973 from being Chief Presidency Magistrate to Judge of the High Court of Madras was welcomed by the members of the Bar and the judiciary, but even greater was the welcome by the Thondai Mandala Saiva Vellalar community, from which […]

Short ‘N’ Snappy

– MMM

MMM is not a Tahsildar It was a dark and stormy night. No. The Man from Madras Musings has a tendency to exaggerate. It was a fine night, of the kind you can expect in Madras that is Chennai when the meteorological department has predicted cyclones and the Government has declared a holiday for schools. […]

Our Readers Write

Lessons from attack on two doctors in hospitals on consecutive days in Chennai India is yet to recover from the severe shock that it received when a young lady doctor was brutally raped and murdered by a drunkard at midnight in a hospital in Kolkata when she was on duty. Even as the police enquiry […]

A blot on the medical capital

– by Sriram V.

The recent episode in Chennai where the son of a cancer patient stabbed a doctor repeatedly just because he felt the treatment was not proper has exposed the risks that the medical fraternity faces on a routine basis. That this should have happened in our city which historically has been a centre for medicine and […]

Notification of apartment development rules paves the way for residential benefits

– by Varsha V.

In a much-welcome move, the Government of Tamil Nadu recently notified the Tamil Nadu Apartment Ownership Act which clarifies the guidelines under which ageing apartment buildings can be redeveloped. Under the new rules, apartment owners must establish an association with at least four owners. The association will be responsible to draft bylaws and register the […]

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