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When my family moved to Chennai in the year 1952, we were facing a very big family problem. My brother-in-law had deserted my twenty-year-old sister to marry another woman....
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One can see an old clock tower here which has been a landmark for many years. Next to the Royapettah clock tower this clock tower assumes an important place in the city....
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For a long time a footpath was the existing link between the railway station and the Chromepet area. Residents who were not aware of the art of riding a bicycle or who had crossed the age of riding...
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There were not many buses in those days in Chennai and even the buses that were plying were relatively smaller. The other alternatives available for the commuters were the hand-drawn-rickshaw or the horse-drawn-cart, popularly known as kai-rickshaw and jutka.......
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Tennis Ball Cricket match is a different kind of ball game played every year in Dhandeeswara Nagar. This match is played in a brightly-lit stadium and goes on until about 10 or 11 in the night, under the patronage of Stalin.........
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There are three railway stations in Chennai, carrying the name Perambur. Perambur Carriage Works, Perambur Loco Works and Perambur.......
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There are three railway stations in Chennai, carrying the name Perambur. Perambur Carriage Works, Perambur Loco Works and Perambur.......
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The steeple of the Perambur Lurdhu Mary church could be seen right from the railway station in those days......
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There was a magazine devoted to cinema that carried the name "Tamil Cinema". M. A. Kareem was its editor.....
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It was in May 1952 that I came to Chennai. The Chennai citizen should have felt very happy that day, for another reason. It rained that day in Chennai......
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