[ad_1] Mission Rhumi 2024 launch in East Coast Road, Chennai | Photo Credit: Johan Sathyadas Satrajit Samy clapped and cheered as Mission Rhumi 2024 took off in Thiruvidanthai in Chennai’s scenic East Coast Road. Satrajit had come all the way from Dubai for this momentous occasion. It might have lasted just a few seconds or…
[ad_1] After stumbling upon a tweet about a few doctors from Madras Medical College’s batch of 1951 celebrating a birthday, I decided to visit these 90-plus-year-old doctors settled in different parts of Chennai, for a walk into the past. MMC Batch of 1951 reunion in 2022. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Some of the first…
[ad_1] Apart from the struggle for Independence, early 20th Century Madras was the nerve centre for a very significant batch of protests in the State — the anti-Hindi agitations. Strangely enough, this protest, on linguistic grounds, continues to date. Be it in 1938, when the Justice Party led a campaign against the move by the…
[ad_1] The 385th Madras Day is just the occasion to celebrate the founding of a cultural city and its architectural landscape. It is a confluence of civilisations, manifested in its architectural evolution, over centuries. Madras, renamed Chennai in 1996, began its journey as a conglomeration of riverine village clusters located close to the ancient Mahabalipuram…
[ad_1] If watching a film on the large screen while sipping a chilled beer is on your bucket list, prepare to check it off soon. While the buttery popcorn, sugary sodas and freezing chill of air conditioning is part of the classic movie-going experience, a contrast is the open air cinemas that have popped up…
[ad_1] View from the top – Thejomaye Menon | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement From Alfred Hitchcock’s movie The Birds, to Vincent Van Gogh’s painting The Kingfisher, birds have inspired artists to express complicated feelings in nuanced ways. Emotions like freedom, grace, wisdom, peace, melancholy, and more have been traced in art with the help of…
