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Chronicling Chennai’s dwindling dalliance with letters and post boxes

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[ad_1] A letter box in RA Puram | Photo Credit: B Velankanni Raj The imperturbable faces of the crooked red letter boxes planted all over Chennai are like epithets the city has forgotten to use. The ones that remain, project the presence of an era that broods in its absences.   For a generation that […]

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Made of Chennai | Celebrate Madras through rare photos, music, culture and food

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[ad_1] The Hindu Archival Exhibit The year is 1949. Crowds swell outside The Hindu’s office on Mount Road on a hot afternoon to keep track of the latest test cricket score, as the national newspaper’s office staff manually update the scoreboard from the building’s balcony. In the backdrop, daily life goes on as a tram […]

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