Vanishing piece of an home

Once an important location of a home, the Thinnai (aka the front portion of an house to allow people sitting/ some times sleeping), now fast vanishing as an build item in many homes. The Thinnai (in Tamil திண்ணை) was a place where some passersby can stop by and relax from the hot & humid climates, the house owners can sit and engage in conversations with his neighbours and many more such social engagements. Now obviously vanishing, was very happy to see such an home with Thinnai in Mylapore. At a lane off Sundareswarar Street, Mylapore.

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6 comments on “Vanishing piece of an home”

  1. 19 Jan 2010 at 1:24 pm Premkumar
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    Wonderful Snap, Ram!

    Ram : Thanks Prem.

  2. 19 Jan 2010 at 2:32 pm R Sathyamurthy
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    There used to be “Thinnai Pallikoodams” also.

    In our old house, we had two beautiful Thinnais – one made of white cement with a marble like finish and the other green with some amount of extra cement. That was a place for us to relax, play and generally enjoy. Older people used to play cards on Thinnai also known as “திண்ணை கச்சேரி”.

    Ram: You did a Kutchery out here Sathya … :D

  3. 19 Jan 2010 at 2:42 pm Nisha
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    But they still have some place to sit such as stone/concrete bench near the entrance where they remove footwear. I have seen this in almost all houses in Chennai. I said houses not flats. :)

    Ram: There are such concrete stuff at “Houses”, but definitely doesn’t come close to the use of Thinnai’s. (as its evident from Sathya’s comment too)

  4. 26 Jan 2010 at 11:38 am Gunn White
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    Interesting way to make it even more pretty. It looks nice.

    Ram: Ha haa, its an experience to sit in Thinnai and chat with friends …. :)

  5. 28 Jan 2010 at 10:09 pm R.Shantaram
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    Did thinnais go away because we don’t have time to sit and chat, or is it that we don’t make time to sit and chat because there are no thinnais anymore? Solve this one, Ram!!
    :)

  6. 10 Apr 2010 at 11:43 am Drinking water « DailyPhoto Chennai
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    [...] pots of waters outside their homes for passers-by to help themselves from onslaught of thirst. The thinnai’s in their homes were always handy for such service. Also this photo tells us that apart from Tamil, [...]


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