… this place in Sowcarpet makes new ones, repairs old Harmoniums, shruti boxes and the works. They have a range of services to offer in terms of the musical instruments like Banjo’s, tabla’s and more percussion instruments too.
One could find them in Mint street, near the new sunshine hotel.
Posts Tagged ‘Collage’
31 Aug
Add the shruti …..
9 Jul
Mac or Mad
…. As if the entire neighbourhood of Anna Nagar (a suburb of Chennai) was starving without food for months together and thanks to the new store launch of McDonalds at the neighbourhood reduced the starving, crossed my mind when i saw the crowds / queues waiting outside the store on the day of the launch [...]
2 Jul
Photos & Hows its made
How does one get a picture about the city with a new angle, about new faces / people, about some monuments of Chennai, about the new happenings of the city?
If these shutterbugs don’t risk their lives like this collage of photos, where would you get some lovely candid shots?
29 Jun
Chennai Pride 2009
… Chennai had the 1st march my the Lesbians, Gay, Bisexuals & Transgenders (Shortly LGBT) yesterday at the Marina. The march started at the Labour Statue at 4pm till the Gandhi Statue.
Some background about the Background on why June & Pride marches are together here.
11 Jun
Method in Madness
I always think there’s one in these traffic chaos. (I meant the method in Madness)
Once the method is understood by the driver / the jay walker then its pure bliss. (for whom?).
For those who’ve not visited Chennai, don’t be scared, this is not real traffic, there’s worse one’s too
8 Jun
Rusting
Most of the Tow vehicles in Chennai are the part of the Police (or in their Duty) only. Which are normally used to tow away the vehicles from No-Parking zones across the city. Predominantly this happens towards the month-ends & month startings, for obvious reasons.
Not many such vehicles ply for the Paid duties for the [...]
1 Jun
Prints
For this Theme Day celebration at the City Daily Photo and the theme “Feet”.
Seen here is a collage of the foot & foot prints my son’s leaving at the Marina Beach.
See the pictures about feet from other cities Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
26 May
Fish o Fish
Like the Mutton, Chicken … many prefer the fish as their Sunday feast. Fish sales, though, is spread out across the city of Chennai in all neighbourhoods, the foodie prefers to visit the Triplicane, Marina, Royapuram, Vannanthurai as their preferred destinations. This is due to their proximity to the sea’s and the availability of fresh [...]
23 May
Bakra
The Sunday feast is always (at many households) is the Mutton / Chicken or Fish. Seen here is the crowd at one such shop in the neighbourhood and the Goat waiting to be Mutton. Be ready for the weekend ….
21 May
Flag poles
… these are the various political party flags of Tamil Nadu. With the Indian National elections just getting over, many would forget these guys for sometime till 2011 the state assembly elections. Till then ….
26 Apr
Alliance Company
The Publishing house started in 1901 by V Kuppaswami Iyer, stands among the commercial establishments in the R K Mutt Road, in Mylapore. They’ve won various awards for their publishing house. They’ve also ran a magazine called Viveka Bhodini for 24 years till 1932.
Currently run by his grandson, they now publish writings of Cho Ramaswamy, [...]
24 Apr
The art of cross selling
Coupled with some facts like the Indian Private Sector Banks being successful when it comes to sell other products to their banking customers and the revenue income in distributing such products adds a significant impact on the Banks bottomline, many Nationalised banks have started selling quite a few Income based products through their existing branches [...]
23 Apr
Vallalar
Vallalar aka Ramalinga Adigalar born in 1823 at Marudur, near Neyveli went on to become a saint. His teachings were mainly about DEATHLESSNESS.
The Satya Gnana Sabhai is in Vadalur.
Here you are seeing his sayings printed and fixed around the walls (railings) of the Mylapore Tank.
3 Apr
Wesley Church
The Collage of Pictures of “Wesley Church” at the Egmore junction. this 104 year old church founded in 1905 by the Methodists is now part of Church of South India (CSI).
An impressive architecture and amazing natural lighting is the specialty of this church. Since i’d gone during the sunday mass, couldn’t click any pictures of [...]
21 Mar
Padi flyover
The all new Flyover at Padi Junction. This has considerably eased the traffic movements at the TVS / Padi / Annanagar West & Villivakkam junction.
I’m wondering whether the Annanagar train service, which was stopped for this grade separator will be reopened again.
15 Mar
Glassy affair
The Glass bangles make such a lovely spectacle, especially in the night.
This collage is from the picures taken near Mylapore tank from a Bangle shop.
(Yes … i could have still clicked this in any other city too.)
26 Feb
Volvo & Chennai
Volvo was not present in India for a while, and in Chennai too their presence is limited. To my knowledge they don’t have a dealership here in Chennai.
Seen here is the Volvo XC90 used as the official car in the recently concluded Chennai Open Tennis championship, displacing Mercedes Benz from the official car for the [...]
24 Feb
Tank
The temple tank collage of pictures. This one is of Karaneeswarar temple in Saidapet.
I didn’t click the street below the writings “keep the temple tank clean”, hope its clean next time.
3 Feb
English Wheel
Wheel :-
noun.
A solid disk or a rigid circular ring connected by spokes to a hub, designed to turn around an axle passed through the center.
But the Railway Police decided to take a dig on the Britishers who left India about 61 years ago and change the spelling at the Chennai Egmore Railway Station. That too [...]
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