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Legends around a wall that kept cyclones at bay

Havilland built a 2-mile long 14-foot high bulwark using millions of boulders from Pallavaram hills to protect Madras from the rough seas in the...

A confluence point of royalty, politics & sports

The epicentre of Madras's cultural connect

Those were the days: Memoirs on Madras, its glorious past & legacy

Those were the days: White imprints on Black Town

Chennai

Bharati(ya) Bhasha Diwas & poet-patriot’s pitch for linguistic harmony

The government aptly observes his birthday as ‘Bharatiya Bhasha Diwas’ every year to create “language harmony”.

Chennai

Madras's smarter ways with water

Water is not only linked to rise of civilization, it also gives us clues about how the history of urban planning evolved. Having observed World Water...