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1 year

How many Chennaites dislike the Marina’s open air fish market? Our HC judges want them cleaned up for Singara Chennai! But milords, Madras is also salty air and fish fragrances: not just coffee and sambhar.

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Fireworks displaying using palm flower stalls as base. Smokeless, unpolluted fun: traditional practice: at a Palm Tree Fest in Villupuram district: Tamil Nadu

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Buckingham Canal: 90kms south of Chennai: the waterway as it was!

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Once Adyar Gate Hotel: then Hotel Crowne Plaza: now being demolished to make way for posh apartments in Chennai’s upmarket real estate zone. Video: Madhan Kumar

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The Marina is Chennai’s largest open public space: thousands are here daily. It is in a mess. In some years, two Chennai Metro rail lines will have stations here. If the trains bring thousands more, do we have any plans on how to let Marina survive? #ChennaiMetro #Marinabeach

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Fishers have blocked Marina Loop Road. We will continue to sell fish here and we will not move into new market, they say. Photo: Madhan Kumar

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Rainwater gushing from one side into tank of Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple in Mylapore: Chennai on a day of light rains as monsoon breaks here. Video: Madhan Kumar Great effort at water harvesting

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6 months

The real Buckingham Canal: 90kms outside Chennai. This summer go on a family picnic : #TamilNaduTourism boat house: Mudaliarkuppam stop. Boat ride, seashore lounge, walk on San dunes, dunk in nungu.

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1 year

@PaulJooby Fyi that road took over fishing and sorting zone of fishers.

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1 year

Two Chennai Traffic police refill water in a pan at the War Memorial junction: for crows this summer. Applause please!

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1 year

Sambhar or poriyal or Avial: in kilos. Kinda unique at Sukha Nivas, iconic restaurant in Luz, Chennai. Know of any other joints selling food in kilos?!

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11 months

Monsoon has begun in Chennai: but today’s rain didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of this mother and schoolgoing child. #ChennaiRains #monsoon2023 #chennai

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1 year

Madras is where the country got its first labour union. Today, some straggle, struggle, stumble, still strive: but it is reduced to a symbol: unionism. A rare auto carrying red flag on a wet May Day morning

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5 months

There are these bars in Chennai which are straight out of the 70s film sets bars: the pink light provides the atmosphere: and Ilaiya Rajas music played on an electric organ. And some flop Tamil movie on the screen. You have a fav bar?!

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1 year

A mosque in Chennai’s Mylapore zone holds its second meeting: a Open House for the local community to understand Islam and Muslims’ practices. Over 200 people/ Muslims and others attended. Worthy effort.

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1 year

Goodbye RANDOR Guy alias Rangadurai: Madras’ great story teller: on cinema, legal eagles, crime and the city and around. Spicy and humorous too. Passed away Sunday in Chennai.

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5 months

Buckingham Canal, off ECR.

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2 years

At small town bars in south Kanara in Karnataka they serve the saaru / thick rasam in a small cup free with your drink! Nothing more! Rest you order!!

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5 months

#MTC and #CMRL force commuters to roast in 37deg heat: no bus shelters at new temporary bus stops on diverted routes caused by #ChennaiMetro rail work in Mylapore zone.

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1 year

Justice Sundar tells lawyer rep of fisher in Marina beach case: “I will sponsor your dinner tonight : go and see how unhygienically food is prepared…” I’ve never had the runs on dining here. I get fresh prawns thokku for 100 bucks. Regulate Sundari akka & Co. Don’t shut them.

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2 years

I published this book. Praveena Shivram edited it. 30 plus creative Chennaites contributed essays, fiction, art, photos, short form: all during the pandemic years. Get your copy: Rs200. Ping 044- 24982244.

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2 years

Students of #Kalakshetra college have held the first day of protest: seeking ‘justice’ in a PoSH issue. But the college has closed for six days, asked hostelites to move out in two days. How best can this protest be carried out now?

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2 years

Does your colony have such community news boards at street corners? Grassroot journalism starts here

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1 year

What do cats think when people sit and read quietly?! A community reading initiative has been started at Nageswara Rao Park in Luz, Chennai.

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5 months

Caramel custard weak hearts anybody? This yum at Winners Bakery, Alwarpet. You had great caramel elsewhere in Chennai?!!! #chennaifoodie

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1 year

Of the many summer camps in Chennai this was on basics of designing kolams: by expert Gayathri Sankaranarayan in CIT Colony: the finale: exhibition on pavement

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1 year

Veppam poo / neem flowers / on sale on Mylapore’s South Mada Street: good stuff: Rs10 to 50. Photo: Madhan Kumar Make rasam/ kuzhambu/ and ???!!! Summer delights

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6 months

#MTC offers freebie rides in buses to #CSK #IPL watchers at #Chepauk . Who is paying for the spend? Let’s be transparent: isn’t MTC loss making ? Why not similar free rides for Panguni fest at Mylapore or …..?

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5 months

Award winning street hawking presentation: by a Irula woman in south Chennai. Creative use of umbrella and bangles and bead chain display. Seen any such in your city?! #Chennailife

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1 year

Buckingham Canal: off #ECR / East Coast Road: 90kms from Chennai.

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6 months

Presummer evening in south Chennai. Why don’t you capture March moods of our city and post here? Tx #Chennaistories

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1 year

Millions have set foot into this city once called Madras, now Chennai, arriving by train at Central Station. And made this city their home. #MadrasDay 2023. Be proud of the city! What’s your rail story?!!

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5 months

Skies at dawn: over the Buckingham Canal

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1 year

Rains in Chennai Monday evening: scene at Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple: Mylapore Photo: Madhan Kumar

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7 months

#Zomato pure vegetarian: kinda oxymoronish? At our #MylaporeTimes newspaper’s Classifieds / Rentals, we get many ‘pure vegetarian’ terms used: we edit the pure.

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7 months

St. Isabel’s Hospital isn’t just a landmark in Chennai. It’s 75 this week. The warmest stories that make it great - it’s Maternity Dept. Thousands born here over 7 decades have stories to tell: warm ones. #Chennailandmarks #StIsabelsHospital

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1 year

Train travellers can be downright antisocial: they leave behind layers of waste. Scene in the Chennai-Bengaluru Brindavan Express.

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1 year

The #HappyStreets concept of Chennai Corporation and Times of India is a corny idea: getting people to play, dance, shout and sing on a barricaded road. What Chennai needs is Walk Only zones: in T Nagar: Mylapore: Royapuram: Anna Nagar: Tambaram

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5 months

Tonight: over Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple, Mylapore, Chennai Photo: Madhan Kumar

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6 months

There was a time in #Chennai when public water tanks of #Metrowater were landmarks in colonies. KK Nagar / Anna Nagar, Besant Nagar, Sastri Nagar. This one in Indira Nagar is pulled down for #ChennaiMetro work. Is your life entwined with a tank ? Video: CR Balaji

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7 months

Hotter than the #IPL24 opener. #TheMusicAcademy reply to #RaGa . Over #SangitaKalanidhi choice

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5 months

When you are on a highway you should know where to get off it for some seasonal surprises: Five varieties of mangoes, sourced from East Coast Road orchards: bought for 120 bucks! #vincentsjottings #ecrstories

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@Vincentsjotting

2 years

My newspaper #MylaporeTimes just launched a Childrens Channel on YouTube. Local stories by teens, on them, their world. locally. Take a look at our weekend pack of 2 videos - one shot at a Kallaripayattu centre.

Kalaripayattu classes & The generous gesture of the Rani Meyyammai...

Experience the revival of Kalaripayattu, the age-old martial art, at Alwarpet's CVN Kalari. Young talents passionately participate in training sessions led b...

www.youtube.com

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3 months

The St Francis Xavier church in Pallavaram, Chennai was first built 150 plus yrs ago. Its later avatar gives you a visual of an English countryside. Which is your favourite church in Chennai?!

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8 months

All you who keep tab on Chennai’s food world: the popular n legendary Mami Tiffen in Mylapore has split: the other brother opens Mami Mess next door. #mylapore #chennaifoodie

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6 months

Mylapore Times’ Journalism Program for teens is on: the 8 did the beat of polling neighbourhood polling booths: got first hand experience. Here are two of them with voters. #MylaporeTimes #JournalismCampChennai

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1 year

Let it be always 'University of Madras'. No need to add 'Kalaignar' to mark the DMK leader's 100th birth anniv. Why do some politicians get cheap ideas at special events?! Better, look into this Univ's declining record and address issues.

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6 months

Pollution of #TholkappiaPoonga / Chennai: reclaimed spending crores. Great lung space n bird zone. A #ChennaiMetrowater sewage plant lets out dirt: locals dump garbage.

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4 months

Chennai: short spell of rain and this busy zone in Mylapore floods. @chennaicorp

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2 years

The face of many parts of Mylapore in Chennai is changing: to @make way for Chennai Metro: the century long spot of famed Dubba Chetty Shop on Kutchery Rd is going down this week.

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10 months

Temple tanks filling up fast at monsoon time: scenes in Mylapore

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1 year

Jai Bhim! On the Chennai-Madurai highway.

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4 years

Toddy season : if you live in chennai one option is to drive down ECR and ask at villages past the 85km mark. Rs30 / mug #toddy #ECR

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2 years

Trees have social histories to share. Just stop near them and look around. I did it yday in my Adyar neighbourhood Chennai. #socialhistories #Chennai

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3 months

Anglo Indians who resided in the Pallavaram zone in the 60s/ 70s have fond memories of the Thirusoolam hill which looks down on Chennai’s airports. Have you trekked here?

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5 months

It’s taking shape. A Writers Camp, this summer. On dunes, by the sea, under palm and neem trees. 90kms south of #Chennai . May. #ECRWritersCamp

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5 months

When you walk in the old parts of a city, like #Mylapore in #Chennai you should stop, look up and look deep. Scene off Arundel Street

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2 years

Give us a good football ground, and washrooms too. < If grassroot democratic systems under @chennaicorp in a city like Chennai sideline People's Reps, local, genuine voices will not reach the top. My weekly column in my newspaper - Mylapore Times.

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2 years

On Sunday: Art Fest returns to one of Chennai’s popular parks: Nageswara Rao Park in Luz: 80 artists will display their works in the open. Inspired by Bangalore’s Chithra Santhe. #artfest2023 #Chennai #NageswaraRaoPark

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1 year

Wednesday evening across Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple: Mylapore: Chennai

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1 year

I’m pleased to restart this #MadrasDay event we carried out some years ago: get one/two North Madras school groups tour a few South Madras heritage zones and vice versa. We need to know this city better: not just our backyards! Want to be involved?

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1 year

A grinder became a big killer in Maharashtra? Reading on I was told it was a girder that collapsed. The perils of fast fast online journalism. On The Hindu website

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2 years

I have begun writing inland letters to people who want to read them: on topics that are of common interest. Wrote four on the train taking me to the west coast. #letterwriting

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10 months

Soul food on a monsoon morning. Make it the national food?!

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1 year

The water body in the Tholkappia Poonga in R A Puram, Chennai is a soothing sight. Spot birds here at dawn and dusk. Off South Canal Bank Rd and on the bridge inside Karpagam Avenue.

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1 year

Looks like Silent Reading idea at Nageswara Rao Park in Luz, Chennai is catching on. Second meet this evening drew many people and children too! #silentreadinchennai

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1 year

We love people who read newspapers: even those who seek alms at Mylapore temples. Where do you source your need from?

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1 year

Walking to the altar: to be wedded. Beautiful in a vintage church. Bejai, Mangalore: Karnataka

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1 year

Heat wave: Chennai: would you expect the city Corporation to roll out an action plan? I’ve seen GCC alerts : keep off the sun. But something more, practical, pressing, ontheground? For hawkers, pedestrians, homeless etc

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6 months

#SavukkuShankar Talking derisively about ‘beauty’ about #ChennaiSouth candidate #ThamizhachiThangapandian is just not right. Please stop it: remove that post. #Elections2024

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5 months

So @chennaicorp issues rules on pets in parks after some scary incidents. But what about loads of poop that decorates and gets stamped and is evenly spread in our streets: pet owners get away yet ?!

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10 months

Hot poli, pouring rain. Mylapore. Tonight. Video: Madhan Kumar

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1 year

Pournami: earth oil lit lamps by volunteers: Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple: Mylapore: some Chennai sights that are unique and yet subtle: no show!! Photo: Madhan Kumar #Chennai #mylapore

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1 year

Did a recce of the Buckingham Canal in its Muttukkadu section off the ECR: for a #MadrasDay event this August: talk and boat ride experience for people who want to know Chennai better!

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5 months

My 2nd Journalism Training program at summer holidays time. Open to Class 12 students / college-goers. With a writing streak in them. Sign up asap; limited seats. #JournalismTraining #ChennaiSummerCamp

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1 year

You goonish Chennai Corporation staff: why cart off pots, pans, chairs, tables of our seafood stalls on Marina Loop Road just to clear encroachments? Don’t kick everybody’s stomachs: many widows work here! Warn them and get going.

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@Vincentsjotting

2 years

Releasing today: created during the pandemic years by Chennai writers, artists, poets, photographers and story tellers. Unique collection indeed! Want to buy a copy?

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7 months

One Canal, two rivers. These unlike Pallikaranai marshes, Velachery lakes and Kelambakkam kuttais will never be let to vanish. They must be kept alive so each get 1000 crores periodically to restore/ rejuvenate/ revive!

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6 months

Palm Sunday good news: when two Protestant and one Catholic Church community in San Thome have common procession this morning

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2 years

Ambade: anytime sizzler snack on the south Karnataka coast! Bonda in Tamil Nadu!!

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5 months

Watched Aavesham at a city theatre. There are many ways in which you would look at it. Sliced in, in the tail of the film is something that affects us all: we are crying for someone to talk to us, spend time with us : even when we have it all! #Aavesham #FahadhFassil

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4 months

This may look odd in a metro. Communities continue to announce a death with posters across neighbourhoods to get the news across. Even in Chennai.

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9 months

When Ambedkar played on a violin. San Thome: Chennai. At Neelam’s margazhi music festival.

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1 year

I’m leading a Walk for Madras Day 2023 themed on Buckingham Canal in our city. Aug 13: 7am. Details soon at Just posted info on Madras Day Facebook page! Can you guess what’s in that boat?!

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3 months

The monsoon patterns on the west coast have changed : it rains like a WWF fighters blows and stops breathlessly. In south Kanara today.

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9 months

As a journalist am always happy to see people read newspapers: whichever way they get it! Scene in Mylapore/ Chennai : Photo: Chantal Jumel

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5 months

It was on April 23, 1644, the English completed building the Fort in Madras. The day is dedicated to Saint George, the fort got its name after the saint. On a Fort Walk you can see the shadow imprint of St George’s gate atop it on the inner side, west sector #madrasheritage

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1 year

#chennaicorp can we think of ways to sponge your playgrounds or drain them after heavy rains? Scene of #GCC playground on St Marys Road, Abiramapuram

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4 years

#ChennaiObituaries in #TheHindu can be very staid, static. Not this one this morning - a daughter asking friends of the person who passed away to raise a toast or play Heavy Metal music in his memory! @Irmauo @fn @JoseKavi @cmpaul53 @brianlaul

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6 months

Been hosting this for decades: triggers for teens keen to check Journalism even in these depressing times. #JournalismCampChennai

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1 year

Indian ink drawings: of Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple in 1902: and Cathedral in San Thome: two of a dozen such art works we offer at #MylaporeTimes / 044: 24982244

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Rains break the stifling summer in Chennai: scene around Mylapore. Video: Madhan Kumar #rainschennai

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2 years

There is something about Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple in Mylapore that draws people all the time. Pradosham image shot earlier this week. #SriKapaleeswararTemple

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1 year

At the weekly markets in villages, some works of craft gleam. In coastal Karnataka.

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4 months

Yes, why should police chase away families from Marina beach and city parks after 9:30pm? It’s hot and we need open spaces to unwind and these are 24 hr spaces : why force us to fight in a court for civic rights?

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AVMs Museum in Chennai is the best to happen in the shortsighted, crabby Tamil film world. Two suggestions to @arunaguhan_ Create lil souvenirs to sell to visitors: arrange two studio tours for a fee.

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2 years

Season. Pre arrival in Chennai’s Mylapore. Mango pickle makers will salivate. Still price: 300 / kg.

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6 months

My summertime highway drink. Mor. Buttermilk. Picked up on ECR: 40 bucks.

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2 years

Remembering the tsunami and praying for quietness to the sea goddess. #marinabeach #Tsunami2004 #Chennai

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Chennai mayor Priya may do her PR well receiving petitions at zone offices of @chennaicorp : in Adyar today. But why spend a lakh or more: garish decorate the venue and have speeches? Just meet citizens and listen / discuss over coffee! Simple!!

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