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World Tourism Day | Explore Indo-Saracenic landmarks in Chennai’s George Town

World Tourism Day | Explore Indo-Saracenic landmarks in Chennai’s George Town

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As the yellow-green blur of a whizzing auto sweeps by, a string of jasmine lying on the sidewalk quivers from its impact. The sidewalk faces the long, heavily guarded expanse of Fort St George, now home to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly , Secretariat and a host of Government buildings. At one end of Rajaji […]

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World Tourism Day | Explore Indo-Saracenic landmarks in Chennai’s George Town

World Tourism Day | Explore Indo-Saracenic landmarks in Chennai’s George Town

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As the yellow-green blur of a whizzing auto sweeps by, a string of jasmine lying on the sidewalk quivers from its impact. The sidewalk faces the long, heavily guarded expanse of Fort St George, now home to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly , Secretariat and a host of Government buildings. At one end of Rajaji […]

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On Madras Day | Revisiting Chennai’s iconic British era social clubs, their food and histories that date back to more than a century

On Madras Day | Revisiting Chennai’s iconic British era social clubs, their food and histories that date back to more than a century

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Madras Club Orange lit evenings at Madras Club tremble like the embers of its colonial past. From celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation dinner (well after Partition) to ‘European Only’ dinners, the years of the past drift in the club’s environs like sand. Established in 1832, Madras Club is the second oldest British era club after […]

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On Madras Day | Revisiting Chennai’s iconic British era social clubs, their food and histories that date back to more than a century

Madras Day | Revisiting Chennai’s iconic British era social clubs, their food and histories that date back to more than a century

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Madras Club Orange lit evenings at Madras Club tremble like the embers of its colonial past. From celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation dinner (well after Partition) to ‘European Only’ dinners, the years of the past drift in the club’s environs like sand. Established in 1832, Madras Club is the second oldest British era club after […]

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Tamil writer Sivasankari talks about her memories of Mount Road

Tamil writer Sivasankari talks about her memories of Mount Road

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Back in form Sivasankari has written four short stories during lockdown special arrangement Sivasankari has just returned from Canada after receiving a lifetime achievement award for her contribution to literature and speaks about the city’s ever-evolving thoroughfare over coffee and her famous masala dosai. “I was employed with the First National CitiBank (now CitiBank) between […]

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