Curly Wee lovers

I am one of those persons brought up in Madras that is now Chennai when The Madras Mail was being published. The Mail used to carry a cartoon strip (it will be heresy to call it a comic) called Curly Wee on all days except Sundays. I have a fairly good collection of the strips which I have cut and pasted in a scrap book. I have digitised most of my collection and filled in the missing ones from the Google newspaper archives of The Melbourne Age.

This letter is to make an appeal to other Curly Wee lovers to help find the episodes missing in my collection.

I am also willing to share my digitised collection with other Curly Wee fans in Chennai.

Please contact me at pbkhema@gmail.com

P.B. Krishnamurthy

6/11, Balakrishna Road Valmikinagar, Tiruvanmiyur Chennai 600 041

Founding contributors

This is with reference to the Quiz column in the August 1st issue of Madras Musings. Regarding question 16 on the founders of the cultural institution on the ECR, I would like to add that, along with Debbie Thiagarajan, who is undoubtedly the ‘face’ of DakshinaChitra, and Gita Ram, Mrs. Indira Kothari was also among the three initial contributors who pooled in Rs. 10,000 each to begin with, to initiate the founding of this institution.

Maya D. Kothari

kotmaya@gmail.com

‘God’s garden’

On the first Sunday of Madras Week, Deepa Sekar conducted an interesting Heritage walk in Kilpauk.

I would like to point out that my ancestral house is called ‘Devar Solai’ and not Deva Kottai.

It was called ‘Devar Solai’ due to the beautiful garden created by my grandfather T. Vasu. As a matter of fact, he even designed the name slabs with his own signature in marble. ‘Devar Solai’ means God’s garden and it indeed was.

Nalini Ramakrishnan

92, Landon Road, Kilpauk Chennai 600 010

Madras baashai

The Madras Week was, as always, a huge success. Among the many write-ups and speeches, many Madras expressions and stock in trade words were celebrated. The founding father of what is called Madras baashai was the late king of comedy, veteran actor J.P. Chandrababu. All the writeups and speeches on the Madras baashai are deemed tributes to him while commemorating Madras.

C.G. Prasad

9, C.S. Mudali Street

Kondithope, Chennai 600 079