The statue of Babu Jagajeevan Ram near Marina Beach. He was a freedom fighter and a most important social reformer for the backward classes. This Champion of Social reforms, was also elected to the Indian Parliament.
P.s.: Whats the connection between Crows & Statues?
Posts Tagged ‘Solaiappan’
18 Apr
Weaving life
Handloom weavers are almost extinct and more so these weavers meeting potential buyers at homes on requests. Powerloom has eaten away the shine for many weavers in Kanchipuram.
In my childhood many times these weavers would visit the homes in Chennai and many ladies come together on pre-appointed times to check out the Silk sarees and [...]
27 Mar
The Statue of the Veeran
Chennai has quite a few statues of various leaders from across the state. Apart from various memorial halls / memorial places for many leaders, the statues also are present in quite a few traffic junctions.
One such statue of, Veeran Azhagu Muthukon, at the Egmore junction is seen here. My understanding about who he is “is [...]
16 Mar
Madisaar
This is an unique way of tying the saree by brahmin women … and its also to do with 9 yards of saree length as against usual 6 yards.
I always wonder how they manage to walk and many times with good pace too. Practise makes one perfect i guess !!
Pic courtesy : My son
14 Mar
A tempo or an Auto or … ?
…. what is this? These vehicles are normally used by the Hardware / Cement / Water can distributors and many such dealers for delivery of wares to individual homes from their warehouses.
Driving and more so following these vehicles are an art, because most of the time the drivers of this don’t know whats coming behind [...]
4 Jan
the connecting dots and bumps
Today’s the Braille Day, the birth date of Louis Braille the inventor of Braille system. The request among the visually challenged is to get most of the main stream books moved into the Braille system to be useful for them.
But people like us should atleast strive to make our work places free flowing for the [...]
17 Nov
Queen Victoria
Since yesterday was the King, today the queen.
The Statue of the Queen Victoria at the Beach Road. Seen opposite to the Marina Beach.
(Pic courtesy : my son)
16 Nov
King of Chennai
Yes, the Hand Pump used to get potable water is the KING OF CHENNAI. Most areas have these pumps installed by the Metro Water department and the residents use them for pumping out water for their usage. The energy and skill needed to dish out water from these are very high and also synonymous to [...]
15 Nov
Cricket crazy …
The Craziness for Cricket here is almost fanaticism. Every street corner, small ground, large ones have teams of cricketers and they keep playing the game with either a rubber ball, tennis ball, cork ball or cricket ball. Probably the one of the very few things that unite the nation completely.
The score board at the Presidency [...]
20 Oct
Gods by street corner …. one more
Soon this will become a temple with a roof, a Hundi etc.
Just a ceramic tile fixed at an house entrance, later (i guess) a Thirisulam added and now a worship place.
Pic courtesy : My son
19 Oct
Thalaivar …
This word in TamilNadu denotes only MG Ramachandran aka MGR, the erstwhile Chief Minister of the state of Tamil Nadu, India. People even now are fond of him, inspite of his demise some years ago.
Though nowadays many call themselves “Thalaivar” of various sects, groups, sangams, MGR still is fondly the Thalaivar or Puratchi Thalaivar. He [...]
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