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Vol. XXXIII No. 5, June 16-30, 2023

Regular Articles

Chennai scorches as wet bulb temperatures breach safe thresholds

-- by A Special Correspondent

Balu has not slept for days. “The house feels like a furnace even at night,” he says, eyes ringed by dark circles and lips cracking dry. His job requires him to work outdoors, beneath an increasingly cruel sun. The workplace provides him with as much water as he wants, but he says that the limits […]

Heritage Watch: Let’s put heritage to use

Two views of Rajaji Hall are what we have for you in this issue. And both views are OLD. The first dating to the 1850s shows what was then Banqueting Hall, sans the enclosing verandah. The second, dating to after 1890, shows the building as it is now. It is remarkable how little the edifice […]

Short ‘N’ Snappy

– MMM

The Long and Short on the Sengol The Man from Madras Musings was in far-off lands and deep in slumber when the phone rang. He answered it groggily and was immediately hit by what seemed a ton of bricks. On brushing off the last vestiges of sleep he was able to think with greater clarity […]

Next Chapter on the Pen Memorial

-- by The Dy. Editor

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, has via its Expert Appraisal Committee given its approval for the construction of the pen-shaped memorial to former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi off the Marina Beach. With this the controversial proposal seems to have crossed yet another hurdle towards becoming reality. The party in power has […]

Authorities clamp down on unsafe drinking water, seal six packaged water units

-- by A Special Correspondent

A spike in complaints regarding the poor quality of water cans supplied to residents in different parts of the city prompted authorities to investigate the matter. Following a joint inspection of 19 packaged drinking water units by officials from the Food Safety Department, GCC and CMWSSB, authorities have sealed six packaged drinking water units for […]

Heritage Watch: Remember the Traffic Commissioner’s Office at Vepery?

If you are of a generation that acquired its driving ­licence in the 1960s and 1970s, you would know this building very well. And if you are a child of that era, chances are

Lost Landmarks of Chennai

-- by Sriram V

From Traffic Commissioner to Police Commissioner’s Office The Police Commissioner’s Office Road may be in Egmore but the official himself now sits in a custom-made multi-storey building located in Vepery. While the story of old Commissioner’s Office is well documented (for the latest read MM, Vol XXXI, No 4, June 1 to 16, 2021), what […]

Short ‘N’ Snappy

– (Wo)MMM

Of vadams and basket cases The Woman from Madras Musings has long been of the view that the older generation of Madras that is Chennai is more inclined to the delightfully absurd than the present one. Some of the stories that the Eternals or their peers casually drop into conversation are positively outrageous, like plots […]

An about turn on Public Hoardings

-- by The Dy. Editor

The Government of Tamil Nadu has decided to permit outdoor hoardings once again in the city. A Government Order has been issued under the Tamil Nadu Urban Local Bodies Act 2022 to this effect. The reason is ostensibly to boost revenue for the cash-starved Greater Chennai Corporation. The actual pressure may well be from elsewhere […]

City to get new skywalk at T’Nagar, the longest in the country

-- by A Special Correspondent

This month, the city will be given a brand new skywalk in T.Nagar courtesy the Greater Chennai Corporation. It will connect the Mambalam railway station to the bus stand near the Madley junction in a bid to alleviate the traffic congestion caused by pedestrian crowds on the roads. 570m long and 4.3m wide, the skywalk […]

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