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Vol. XXXIII No. 18, January 1-15, 2024

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Heritage Watch: ‘Beautifying’ The Marina

Driving by the beach the other day, this rockery caught your deputy editor’s eye. While much of the beach is in a shambles, this entirely artificial creation seems to be flourishing. You would normally expect anything put by a previous regime to be neglected by its successor in our State but not so this rockery. […]

Short ‘N’ Snappy

– MMM

The End of Music is Nigh The December Music Season is on its way out. Or put another way on its last legs. Or in terminal decline. Or is moribund. The Man from Madras Musings is not saying all this. He is speaking of a certain section of our media world which seems to take […]

Our Readers Write

Grin and bear it! I read the caption Traffic arrangement on Anna Salai likely to stay ‘permanently temporary’ in a Chennai daily dated November 7, 2023. The use of ‘permanently temporary’ made me chuckle. Such oxymoronic usage occurs in native English-speaking countries, but they use this expression while referring to migrants or migration (‘permanently temporary […]

Floodwaters carry oil spill into water bodies; Ennore residents suffer fallout

-- by Varsha V.

For the residents of Ennore, Cyclone Michaung has been disastrous in more ways than one. The floodwaters have carried an oil spill from the nearby CPCL refinery at Manali into the eco-sensitive Ennore Creek, affecting the community in Ennore and surrounding areas as far as 25 kilometres from the neighbourhood. The Tamil Nadu Water Resources […]

Heritage Watch: The Last of Last House

It needed Cyclone Michaung to give Last House on Snob’s Alley the final push. The building, ostensibly protected by the Archaeological Survey of India was on its last legs for over five years, deprived of even basic maintenance. The irony is that ten years ago, the structure was fine and well cared for. The ASI, […]

Tall man, sun crowned – the Ambrose I knew

-- by K.R.A. Narasiah

Tribute-1 During the late seventies and early eighties, when I was with the port of Visakhapatnam, Ambrose was the additional Secretary in the Ministry of Shipping, in charge of Ports. Being the departmental head in the port, officially I had regular meetings with him; he was even then known as the friendliest senior officer in […]

S. Venkitaramanan – The Turnaround Man

-- by Sushila Ravindranath

Tribute-2 S Venkitaramanan an IAS officer, who passed away recently, was a legendary figure who held many top positions in government. He was Finance secretary at the centre (also at his home state in Tamil Nadu) and the governor of the Reserve Bank of India among other things. In Chennai he will always be remembered […]

Short ‘N’ Snappy

– (Wo)MMM

Some Things Just Don’t Change Cyclone Michaung has come and gone and The Woman from Madras Musings is struck, once again, by the fatheaded resilience of some to insist that life chug along their terms even in the midst of a natural calamity. Even as the city was struggling to retrieve itself from the floods […]

Does our city need flag posts at every street corner?

-- by Sriram V.

For all that the authorities keep chanting Singara Chennai, ground reality is far removed from the idea of the city beautiful. Which world-class metropolis has party flag posts erected at every street corner, sometimes even two or three sharing the same space? These not only impede pedestrian and vehicle movement but also become convenient urinals […]

Rising trend in street dog menace signals need for urgent action

-- by Varsha V.

Last month, 28 residents in Royapuram were attacked by a rabid dog before it was beaten to death. The victims have reportedly been given medical care and administered the first dose of the human anti-rabies vaccine and immunoglobulin. The Corporation collected the addresses of all who were bitten by the animal and are now monitoring […]

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