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Vol. XXXI No. 12, October 1-15, 2021
Regular Articles
Short ‘N’ Snappy
Out of the mouths of babes… Not sure about you, but The Woman from Madras Musings always dissolves into a low-key panic when asked to play host to people visiting the city. Take us to your favourite local spots, they say. Show us the best of the city, they add. Well, (Wo)MMM’s ‘favourite local spot’ […]
Quizzin’ with Ram’nan
Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s first 10 questions are on current affairs and the next 10 on Mahatma Gandhi. 1. Which productions won the Emmys in the Best Drama and Limited Series categories recently? 2. The US Open women’s singles final was the first all-teenage final in 22 years. Who were the players? 3. Netflix recently bought […]
Our Readers Write
Colourful decorations of landmarks The picture of the decorated Ripon Building for Madras Week Celebrations brought to my mind how Madras City was beautifully decorated on the occasion of the First Republic Day. As a college student, I wandered throughout the night to enjoy the colourful decorations of all landmarks of the City. Listening to […]
Short ‘N’ Snappy
On the VIP Road The Man from Madras Musings lives just off an arterial road of the city. It is just not an arterial road but THE arterial road, for it is the route that has been taken by four out of the last four Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu to and from Fort St […]
Quizzin’ with Ram’nan
Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s first 10 questions are on current affairs and the next 10 are India’s highest military decoration, the Param Vir Chakra and Ashoka Chakra. 1. Which Central American nation recently became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender? 2. Which Asian nation recently issued a ban on children and teenagers playing […]
Our Readers Write
Ministerial meek and ego trips Around midnight, a train that crossed ours with a roar woke me up. I was travelling from Madras (now Chennai) to Madurai. Groggily, I plodded towards the toilet. While all the other cabin doors were closed, the coupe at the far end was wide open. The window shutters were also […]
Short ‘N’ Snappy
Madras Week Musings The Man from Madras Musings is quite sure that the Chief, wherever he may be, is all smiles. From conducting eight programmes each year for Madras Day, the old magazine did two better – hosting in effect ten programmes. It is just the kind of thing he would have loved though MMM […]
Our Readers Write
by G. Sankaran
A Chennai Pedestrian’s Thrills I have essentially been a pedestrian all my life. I continue to be so at the age of 89. In my student days, I used to walk to my school and back. Ditto in college days. I took to walking seriously at age 15 when I joined the University College, Thiruvananthapuram. […]
Cryptic Quiz on Chennai
Ashwin Bhandarkar may be a Punekar now but he spent much of his growing up years in Madras that is Chennai. As part of the Madras Week events organised by Madras Musings, Ashwin conducted a cryptic clues quiz, in which he was helped immensely by his friend Loks Subrahmanyam. We thank them both for it […]
Short ‘N’ Snappy
– MMM
The virtual event organisers These are days when The Man from Madras Musings is wary of any phone calls from unknown numbers. In them good old days he was similarly wary of anyone who fixed him with a smile from afar and bore down on him in the month of August – it usually meant […]
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
