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Madras Week 2022 | Exploring the city on foot

The best way to explore a city, particularly one that is celebrating its 383rd birthday, is probably on foot.

August 26, 2022 01:52 pm | Updated September 01, 2022 07:52 pm IST

The Hindu Bureau

The Napier Bridge in Chennai. File

The Napier Bridge in Chennai. File | Photo Credit: R. Ragu

There is much to explore in its myriad alleyways — temples, churches, mosques, customs, habits, niches, smells, sounds, people and traffic that reminds you of an old city that happily, and sometimes grudgingly, but constantly melds with the new.

Collection - 15 stories

Exploring history: People taking part in a heritage walk at the Fort St. George.

Fort St. George: behind the structures, stories of the past unfold

How green was the Royapettah of yore

A vital role: The city has helped shape films and filmmaking.

Madras’ very own dream factories

Participants at the walk through Pallikaranai marshland organised by the Care Earth Trust.

A walk through Pallikaranai marsh, the city’s last wetland

Pon Vasanth B.A

A view of the Industrial Estate at Ambattur taken on January 15, 1965.

Built to last, the story of Guindy Industrial Estate

Sangeetha Kandavel

Participants of the Heritage Food Walk at the Bharathi Mess in Triplicane.

Developing a taste for the flavours of Madras

A block of the 11 single cells where patients used to be kept in solitary confinement till the 1990s at the Institute of Mental Health, Kilpauk.

Remnants of the past at Institute of Mental Health

Serena Josephine M.

The baby turtles going into the sea is a sight to behold for nature lovers.

Chennai’s favourite annual visitors

Participants discussing the contributions of prominent women of Chennai during the Madrasin Pengal Heritage Walk.

Remembering the women who helped build Madras

Serena Josephine M.

Merchandise on Chennai

Showcasing the city through souvenirs

Members of the Great Cholas Heritage Research Group on a heritage walk in Mylapore.

Connecting with the saints of yore in modern-day Chennai

Deepa H. Ramakrishnan

A compilation that captures the flavour of old city

Special Correspondent

A new perspective: Several aspects of life in North Madras, particularly at Kasimedu harbour, through the ages came as a revelation to the participants of the heritage tour organised recently.

Going north, a hark back to the glory of the fishing city by the sea

A view of the Pallavaram Sandhai

Pallavaram Sandhai, a thriving business hub

A pivotal role: In the early 20th Century, Art Deco buildings became a sign of protest against the British by swadeshi business leaders.

An old city clothed in the glory of Art Deco architecture

Aloysius Xavier Lopez

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