By Guest Author(s) on January 18th 2016
I am the Kaaval Deivam of Chennaipattinam, nowadays called Chennai. The Romans called their Kaval Deivam ‘Genius Loci’. These days, people have forgotten us but we are still around to help and protect our villages and towns. I write this in sorrow and anguish about the recent tragedy in my beloved ward. My ward was […]
By Guest Author(s) on January 18th 2016
The deluge in early December in Chennai left the city in such a traumatic state that The Season due to start mid-December was almost deemed a “wash-out”. The resourceful heads of Sabha-s quickly put their heads together and announced that The Season – the biggest and most eagerly looked forward to music festival in this […]
By Guest Author(s) on January 18th 2016
A mathematical mix up The Man from Madras Musings could scarcely believe his good luck. One of his mentors (and in his life he has reasons to be thankful to several) and a most noble one at that, had just introduced him to Most Brilliant (shall we refer to him as MB?), a mathematician of […]
By Guest Author(s) on January 18th 2016
A pipe dream Your piece (MM, Jan. 1) on Chennai as a world-class city makes interesting reading. There are two broad requirements for being called a world-class city. The first is infrastructure, such as good roads, adequate supply of water that can be drunk from the tap without distributing a plethora of pathogens, regular and […]
By Guest Author(s) on January 18th 2016
(Current Affairs questions are from the period December 16th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.) 1. Following the National Green Tribunal (NGT) orders, the Supreme Court recently banned registration of diesel cars in which Indian State? 2. How did Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines make news recently? 3. […]
By Guest Author(s) on January 18th 2016
Till January 20: Black Marketing, an exhibition of paintings by C. Pandi Selvam. (at DakshinaChitra) Till January 31: The Margazhi and Village Festival will feature: January 20-26: Panchavadhyam performance by P. Mukuntha Prasad of Panchavadya Sangam, Kerala. Panchavadhyam, an orchestra of five instruments four of the percussion category, while the fifth is a wind instrument, […]
By Guest Author(s) on January 6th 2016
Strait-laced, conservative, middle class It is a day like any other in a street like any other in West Mambalam. In the lane close to Srinivasa Theatre (one of Chennai’s oldest cinema theatres), the houses are packed closely together. They are functional, rather ugly houses, stacked side by side and it is -obvious no one […]
By Guest Author(s) on January 6th 2016
(Current Affairs questions are from the period December 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.) 1. The Union Government’s award-based scheme to encourage consumers for transition to digital payments is called…? 2. Who is the only Indian in the Top 10 of Forbes’ ‘World’s Most Powerful People’? 3. On […]
By Guest Author(s) on January 4th 2016
The waters have receded, those manning centres for immediate relief have gone back to their respective activities, and now the focus shifts to long-term rehabilitation. There is now a realisation that Chennai cannot afford to expand the way it did. That it does need to grow is a reality, but such growth has to be […]
By The Editor on January 4th 2016
The lead story above speaks of how our city does not have a single administrative entity that is willing to look at all the problems facing it. That is certainly a matter of concern that will probably need much looking into and a solution at the policy level. Meanwhile, there appear to be several manageable […]