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I didn’t know what was one-way It was in May 1952 that I came to Chennai. The Chennai citizen should have felt very happy that day, for another reason. It rained that day in Chennai......
Encumbrance unencumbered Choolaimedu was once known to be the preferred residential locality of Tamil pundits and practitioners of Tamil medicine.....
A collage on the floor At one time there was a plan to improve the facilities at the Perambur railway station to match that of the Central Station. But that is a pipedream now........
Mat business and the tooth business I became familiar with Devaraja Mudali Street of the Park Town area, when I resided in West Mambalam for about a year. .......
Highway or hardway? The sole factor behind the quick growth of the suburb of Perambur was the train service. It was in Perambur in those days there was a subway.......
Sowcarpet and its Sowcars... It takes one by awe that thousands of business transactions flow quite smoothly in Sowcarpet where even a handcart cannot move an inch without difficult.......
Minting Money... The road adjacent to the Central station, running from south to north is known as the Wall Tax Road. What is Wall Tax? Who levied a tax for any wall? What was the wall and why was the tax?...
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I didn’t know what was one-way

It was in May 1952 that I came to Chennai. The Chennai citizen should have felt very happy that day, for another reason. It rained that day in Chennai......

Encumbrance unencumbered

Choolaimedu was once known to be the preferred residential locality of Tamil pundits and practitioners of Tamil medicine.....

A collage on the floor

At one time there was a plan to improve the facilities at the Perambur railway station to match that of the Central Station. But that is a pipedream now........

Mat business and the tooth business

I became familiar with Devaraja Mudali Street of the Park Town area, when I resided in West Mambalam for about a year. .......

Highway or hardway?

The sole factor behind the quick growth of the suburb of Perambur was the train service. It was in Perambur in those days there was a subway.......

Sowcarpet and its Sowcars...

It takes one by awe that thousands of business transactions flow quite smoothly in Sowcarpet where even a handcart cannot move an inch without difficult.......

Minting Money...

The road adjacent to the Central station, running from south to north is known as the Wall Tax Road. What is Wall Tax? Who levied a tax for any wall? What was the wall and why was the tax?...