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Madras, a city that has always expanded its language to welcome words into its fold

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Madras, a city that has always expanded its language to welcome words into its fold

If you go down the rabbit hole of how words travel from one language to another, you just have to listen to this dialect of Tamil that is Madras bashai. It is built around loanwords as Chennai is formed not just of Tamil speakers; Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, Kannada, Sanskrit, English, and Dutch have all found their…

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Chennai’s Anand Theatre was the ‘OG’ for the city’s old film-buffs

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Chennai’s Anand Theatre was the ‘OG’ for the city’s old film-buffs

In the year of 1964, the Madras State saw two 70mm theatres in fairly close succession, but the one to stake its claim as “the first 70mm theatre of South India” was Anand theatre. It was built on Mount Road by G. Umapathy who ran Uma Printers. On August 22, 1964, this modern theatre was…

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When sea food edged out catch from river

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When sea food edged out catch from river

A community leader says encroachments, pollution, and lack of desilting of rivers have made them mere sewage carriers and garbage bins. | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM Until about four decades ago, people in Madras bought and consumed madava, keluthi, ooda, era, and nandu freshly caught from the city’s rivers and estuaries. You could hear fish mongers hawking out aloud “meen, ma, meen” urging the women…

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While Madras went to bed early, Chennai stays up

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While Madras went to bed early, Chennai stays up

Decades ago, Madras was a city that believed about 9 p.m. was bedtime. After sunset, shutters came down, streets emptied, and roads fell into almost complete silence, with barely a vehicle in sight. Chennai’s two prominent railway stations, Central and Egmore, were among the few places that remained active at night largely because of the steady…

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The Hindu’s legacy as rich as that of Chennai: Tamil Nadu Minister Rajmohan

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The Hindu’s legacy as rich as that of Chennai: Tamil Nadu Minister Rajmohan

The Hindu’s history and legacy are as rich as those of Chennai, said Minister for School Education, Tamil Development, and Information and Publicity Rajmohan here on Friday (August 14, 2026). While inaugurating The Hindu’s Made of Chennai Archival Photo Exhibit, ‘Madras on Stage’, at the publication’s office on Anna Salai, he said that The Hindu…

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