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  1. Hyderabadi Mian and Madrasi Mami

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    / September 4, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By G Mohan   What connects a Hyderabadi Mian to a Madras mami? Remember the Manmohan Desai movie `Desh Premee’, where Amitabh apparently dressed up as a Hyderabadi mian, imitates the archetypal Hyderabadi Mehmood (though more Bangalorean than Hyderabadi) and chases a Madrasi damsel Hema Malini, singing “Khatoon Ki Khidmat mein...

  2. Chillax or Painax : Finding your way in IIT Madras

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    / September 4, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Raamesh Gowri Raghavan   At the outset, let me say my post was inspired by Philip Joshua’s post on Hyderabad’s lingau franca . I just remembered an MA thesis I had read a few years ago about the slang of IIT Madras. Yes, you read that right. An MA...

  3. Aacharam, Madi and cricket

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    / August 14, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By V Desikan   Aberporth is a small town in Ceredigion on the west coast of Wales. The reported population in 2001 was 2485. It should have been even less in 1976, when I visited that place. I took a train from London to reach this quaint little town to...

  4. Security threat

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    / July 22, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Vijay Marur   This morning I saw someone’s post referring to the rude and uncouth behaviour of the security detail attached to some obscure minister. And I was reminded of an incident that proves that the problem is endemic and has a long heritage to boast of. In 1985,...

  5. The Times of Mylapore

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    / July 21, 2011 / 1 Comment
    By V Desikan   The word Mylapore means ‘Land of the peacock scream’. The town of Mylapore is probably the oldest part of Chennai; some of the written records of early settlements go back to the 1st century BC. Mylapore in the 1950s was a very peaceful and friendly place....

  6. Turban vs Turban

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    / June 29, 2011 / Leave a comment
     Biryani, India’s most popular dish is actually an Iranian import. And since we Indians never agree on anything and each of us love to do it our own way, there are a thousand varieties of Biryani available across India. Down South, people take their Biryani very, very seriously; be it...
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    Tagged biryani, restaurant, turban

  7. The Chennai Super King

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    / June 29, 2011 / 3 Comments
      This is not a post about Rajinikant (world is his oyster, Chennai is too small for him). This is not about Stalin (the former mayor of Chennai who moved out of Thousand Lights this election). This is not about Dhoni either. (The India captain may be the adopted son...

  8. Chennai by night

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    / June 25, 2011 / Leave a comment
      (Slogan Murugan is a photojournalist and is now based at Mumbai.)    

  9. An ashtray is injurious to non-smokers !

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    / June 19, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Vijay Marur   The Loyola College Chennai hostels were one of a kind. Most of us who began by hating them, ended up loving them. I had for a couple of years something that was called the ‘turret room’. So called because of its octagonal shape, the room was...

  10. Sundal-o-sundal !

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    / June 14, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By V Desikan   When we used to visit Marina Beach in Chennai in the 60s and the 70s, one would invariably be greeted with the cry of “Sundalo Sundal”. Watching the sea waves while eating those hot sundals, wrapped in newspaper cones are unforgettable moments for anyone who has...

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