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Orme’s Road (Miscellany, October 29) continues to fascinate readers, making me wonder whether I shouldn’t start looking at another old road. Will some kind reader get me started? Meanwhile, getting back to Orme’s Road, reader Sriram Venkatakrishnan wonders how I could have missed seeing what the Corporation has made of Sylvan Lodge Colony; their signboard reads JILVAN
Lodge Colony! And Dr. A. Raman from Australia recalls his youth in the area and reminds me that the Flower’s Road junction is a five-road junction and not a four-road one as I had mentioned; that I had left out Barnaby Road, which takes off at an angle, he points out. In its angle with Orme’s Road is the Ponni Amman Kovil, where once animal sacrifices were made. He also remembers Orme’s Castle, No.1 Orme’s Road, which used to be a hostel for boys at the back of the Sir M.Ct. Muthiah Chettyar High School. Deluxe Stores at the same junction was, he thinks, the first ‘department store’ in the Vepery-Purasawalkam-Kilpauk area. And he feels it would have been more accurate to say that the Maharajah of Parlakimedi’s palace was at the corner of Waddel’s Road and Orme’s Road. Which makes me wonder whether it would have stretched from Waddel’s Road to Muniappa Road.
* Reader M.S. Govindan wonders in how many locations the Governor’s Council/Legislative Council of Madras/Tamil Nadu has met (Miscellany, October 29). As far as I am aware, it met in the Governor’s residence and Admiralty Building in Fort St. George, in Banqueting Hall, in the University of Madras’s Senate House, in a custom-built Council Chamber behind Government House in Government Estate, and in the present Legislative Assembly Hall in the Fort.
* R.V. Krishna Ayyar (Miscellany, October 29), writes reader K. Vedamurthy, was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth and was the beneficiary of vaarachaappaddu from some kindly souls during his schooldays in Salem. The better off feeding poor students to enable them to concentrate on their studies was a practice prevalent at the time and no recipient felt slighted by it or treated it as a bit of condescension. Krishna Ayyar apparently remembered all his life how he had been helped, and in turn helped numerous poor students in many ways.
S. MUTHIAH
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