It may be today’s downtown but not so long ago, Khader Nawaz Khan Road was a quiet residential neighbourhood with bungalows on both sides. Today there are hardly any and those that survive must be under pressure to pack up given the ham-handed pedestrianisation attempt. But memories are hard to shake off. We present here photos sent by Fran Forsyth, who lived on that road in the 1950s/1960s and came back in 2003 to look for the home of her childhood.
OLD
NEW
The OLD is from her family album and the NEW taken by her in 2003. The bungalow has since vanished. We present excerpts in pages 4 and 5 from her book From Madras to Chennai, and some of life in between (2QT Publishing, 2025), The book can be purchased at: https://www.amazon.com/Madras-Chennai-some-life-between/dp/191932710X