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Vol. XXXII No. 12, October 1-15, 2022
Regular Articles
Of Soul and Spice and everything nice
-- by Ranjitha Ashok
Paachakam, ‘cooking’ or ‘preparation’ in Malayalam, is the title of Sabita Radhakrishna’s latest cookbook, a compilation of heritage cuisine and legacy recipes from Kerala. Sabita’s earlier cookbooks include Aharam, which won the prestigious Gourmand French World Cookbook Award, India, in 2002, and the highly successful Annapurni, covering all major communities in Tamil Nadu. ‘The South […]
Short ‘N’ Snappy
-- MMM
Stones in Books Was it not the Bard who said there are stones in books and sermons in running brooks? The Man from Madras Musings is not so sure, but he does remember being very impressed when he read those lines for the first time. They more or less swam into MMM’s consciousness when he […]
Our Readers Write
Reg. Memories of Luz Church Road Indukanth Ragade’s Memories of Luz Church Road (MM August 16-21, 2022) makes nostalgic reading for an old Mylaporeon like me. There are a couple of gaps left in the detailed article, which I would like to fill in. The land with a spacious bungalow in a huge compound, where […]
Dates for your Diary
Exhibition: URUVAKKAM: from Prints to Golu from September 3-25 at Kadambari Gallery, Dakshina Chitra Museum. Inauguration on September 3, 4 p.m. by Dr. Chithra Madhavan.
Our Readers Write
More storm water woes Many thanks for carrying an article on the woes of Chennai residents brought on by storm water drains. Perhaps the point that was missed out relates to unplanned excavation work very close to roots of trees and in many cases under the roots too. Many trees have been cut when the […]
Short ‘N’ Snappy
-- (Wo)MMM
The Drones Club It happened in August, with alarming regularity. The Woman from Madras Musings would be tottering about on the tennis court when the heavens would suddenly manifest an unearthly din. The buzz of what sounded like a swarm of mosquitoes would tear through the silence of play, bringing the game to a screeching […]
Madras Week 2022 — A Big Thank You!
As the curtains come down on Madras Week 2022, we at Madras Musings are filled with a deep sense of gratitude to the city that we are proud to be in and call home. That it can have so many positive-minded celebrants is by itself a matter of pride but then, we would have expected […]
Short ‘N’ Snappy
-- MMM
Madras Week Musings It has come and gone and The Man from Madras Musings is still recovering from it. There were ribbons to be cut, prizes to be awarded, speeches to made, babies to be kissed, interviews to be given, talk shows to be hosted, heritage walks to be conducted and at the end of […]
Chakkarai, Cheeni, Askã in the 1970s Madras
-- by Anantanarayanan Raman, anant@raman.id.au
Many of us in Madras may recall that white sugar, chakkarai (spoken Tamil), was popular as cheeni (rather cheeni-ch-chakkarai) and askaa as well, in the 1970s. Gritty, crystalline, particulate véllam (jaggery), as against the ûrûndai-véllam (mandai-véllam), is sarkarai — a term that originates from Sarkaraa (Sanskrit). Historically Sarkaraa meant ‘gravelly’, ‘gritty’, and ‘dirty’, although these […]
Short ‘N’ Snappy
-- (Wo)MMM
Six degrees of separation The natural bonhomie of Chennaiites never fails to charm The Woman from Madras Musings. We, much like the rest of the country, love to prove that the world we live in is small, indeed – make a new acquaintance and the conversation will invariably reveal that he or she is a […]
In the latest Issue
- Yet another Government-run Museum in city – with no creative plans for making it relevant
- More loss of green cover: Chennai District Green Committee approves NHAI Port-Maduravoyal Expressway project
- Heritage Watch: Another landmark to vanish
- History of recording climate change on the Coromandel Coast*
- Lost Landmarks of Chennai
- Look at me… Now!
- When Olympians blessed a Madras stadium
- Short ‘N’ Snappy
- Our Readers Write
