MADRAS DAY - Lets Celebrate Madras 375 - August 22nd - Page 6

Lovely post. Great pics. Thank you for the post and info.

Great post Ramya. Thanks for creating this thread.

Where do I begin, I hated Madras when I first came here after I got married May 1992 (at the time I was living in Bangalore) MY main beef was with the weather and the humidity. could not wait to get away from this place (my hubby worked abroad). So tolerated the heat and humidity and visited only during hols and split it betn bangalore and chennai.

forward to 2006 - moved here for good after a long stint overseas and now I AM TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH THIS PLACE. USED TO THE HEAT, the people, the MALLIPOO, THE FILTER KAAPI, MARINA BEACH, THE KUTCHERIS, MYLAI MADISAARU MAMIS, THE KALYANAMS, Pothys, Palam silks, Rangachari, can go on and on...

A great place to raise my daughter, I was glad we did not relocate to Bangalore even though my folks are still there. A perfect mix of the old with the new, Chennai city rocks.

How can i foget this city my childhood day my school days , my friends all that fun . I had stepped in this city on 28 th dec 1978 .and sepped out of this city on 12th dec 2002 as i got married . studied in queen;s mary college visited marina often .the days that i spent on the university bus stops. worked in unicard pvt ltd. than in SSI mylapore ha Imiss them a lot . I remember a song from a tamil movie just first line MADRAS nala MADRAS .

Congrats..this is a big deal..🥳
i am not a Chennaite but i am a Tamilian and Chennai is namma capital.
Have to be happy shouldnt i? :D

Wow what a beautiful thread ...⭐️
I did not know all this trivia about Chennai.
I have never lived in Chennai but would visit the place once in a while with parents and it was always a great feeling as if I am going home, may be because the language spoken at home could be heard every where around me.
Now I visit the place officially very often, but the feeling has still not changed. I feel it is a special treat every time I am going to Chennai. 😃

nice thread

RJ Balaji goes nostalgia... as we hear him speak in his own style, we can also go back to those old days...

remembering...

pepsi ice - aavin paalbooth - maligai kadai, 1 Re commission - 25 paise lottery chit - kosuvarthi stand - thengaai thanni - hour cycle - kolamaavu seller - soanpappadi - apple balloon - Little folks - fighter fish, blackmolly whitemolly - Spencer Plaza escalator - T nagar karumbu juice - theater cone ice - Sunday Cricket ground - Made in India song ..

you will get smile at many places for sure.. listen here The Madras Story by RJ Balaji

Thanks everyone who visited this thread, shared facts, information and your connect with Chennai.. previously known as Madras...

Chennai City Rocks

Classu Massu Madrasu

Chance eh illa... Chennai City pola oorey illa

Chanceless Chennai :).. Mind boggling Madras...


Was born and brought up in Madas till graduation...

Many nice memories... My inlaws are in Madras...My daughter loves the beach...


Was born in Isabella hospital out there.. Its a structure that has stood the times literally :)

The time that I was there, Spencers was the only place.. The british council Library was a fav hotspot along with the higginbothams there...Cycling to college and back... and the ever youthful T.Nagar...pondy bazaar...just the name brings many images and smells :)



Am late on this thread... but could not stop by without commenting!