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The Hindu experience: From our archive
1 year, 3 months ago

The Hindu experience: From our archive

The Hindu  

The Subramania Aiyer era: Willing to strike and not reluctant to wound Believe it or not, The Hindu was born in ire. The Hindu idolised ‘Father’ Ripon, who had succeeded Lytton, the Viceroy “the people of India can never think of without a curse… left the country without a single soul being sorry for it.” The newspaper affirmed its belief …

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Madras Day | Hockey Olympian V Baskaran’s tryst with Chennai is full of food, Rajinikanth and kindness
1 year, 3 months ago

Madras Day | Hockey Olympian V Baskaran’s tryst with Chennai is full of food, Rajinikanth and kindness

The Hindu  

Former captain of the Indian hockey team V Baskaran has met the likes of Usain Bolt and Roger Federer. Having spent all his life in Chennai with a significant chunk in Royapettah, Baskaran knows the thoroughfares of the city’s centre like the back of his hand. The third son to his parents, Baskaran calls his mother a “strong, kind lady” …

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Made of Chennai | Celebrate Madras through rare photos, music, culture and food
1 year, 4 months ago

Made of Chennai | Celebrate Madras through rare photos, music, culture and food

The Hindu  

The Hindu Archival Exhibit The year is 1949. The Hindu Festival of Chennai is held in partnership with Greater Chennai Corporation Radio partner: Radio city. In this festival held in partnership with CMRL, On the Streets of Chennai and Radio City, bands like Mayavisai, Martin & Team, Gurupathi & Gang, The Unusuals, Kooda Senthu Kathu, raids, Consonance and Maple Diaries. …

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Kasturi Buildings: A tour through the premises
1 year, 4 months ago

Kasturi Buildings: A tour through the premises

The Hindu  

Named as ‘Kasturi Buildings’ after S. Kasturiranga Iyengar, the late Editor of The Hindu, the office of The Hindu Group located on Anna Salai in Chennai is one of the iconic landmarks of the capital city. The two blocks From the administrative offices on the ground floor of the front block of the buildings, a passage leads to the process …

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Madras Day | Tamil writer Sivasankari talks about her memories of Mount Road
1 year, 4 months ago

Madras Day | Tamil writer Sivasankari talks about her memories of Mount Road

The Hindu  

Sivasankari has just returned from Canada after receiving a lifetime achievement award for her contribution to literature and speaks about the city’s ever-evolving thoroughfare over coffee and her famous masala dosai. Whenever I see this stature, I realize or remember that everything has a flaw.” An ardent movie buff, Sivasankari has never missed any Tamil, Hindi or English films and …

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New hiking route opens to visitors on Mount Tai
1 year, 7 months ago

New hiking route opens to visitors on Mount Tai

China Daily  

Visitors have a new option to climb Mount Tai, which is a mountain with historical and cultural significance located north of Tai'an in East China's Shandong province, as the Eastern Imperial Road was recently opened to the public on April 26, local media reported. The Eastern Imperial Road is the fifth tourist route and the third hiking road to the …

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New hiking route opens to visitors on Mount Tai
1 year, 7 months ago

New hiking route opens to visitors on Mount Tai

China Daily  

Visitors have a new option to climb Mount Tai, which is a mountain with historical and cultural significance located north of Tai'an in East China's Shandong province, as the Eastern Imperial Road was recently opened to the public on April 26, local media reported. The Eastern Imperial Road is the fifth tourist route and the third hiking road to the …

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Tracing Chennai’s cinema history through banners, posters and cutouts
4 years, 3 months ago

Tracing Chennai’s cinema history through banners, posters and cutouts

The Hindu  

Back in his school days, filmmaker Rajiv Menon would pass through Chennai very often — his father was a naval officer and the family lived in Visakhapatnam at the time. “After having lunch and some ice cream, we would ride around the city.” These are Menon’s earliest brushes with Kollywood’s important, albeit, fading culture of cutouts, banners and posters that …

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