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Drama veterans S.Ve. Shekher and Kathadi S. Ramamurthy and theatre and television artist S. Varadarajan visit ‘Madras on Stage’, the fourth edition of The Hindu’s ‘Made of Chennai’ photo archives exhibition. | Photo Credit: S.R. Raghunathan “Madras on Stage”, the fourth edition of The Hindu’s ‘Made of Chennai’ photo archives exhibition — held at Kasturi…
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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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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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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…
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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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay. File | Photo Credit: X/@CMOTamilnadu Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay on Saturday (August 22, 2026) extended Madras Day greetings and said the city carries the imprints of history and moves forward with the pace of modernity. In a post on X, Mr. Vijay said Chennai is…
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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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