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Chennai (Madras) Cityscapes

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Chennai isthe 4th city in India and the gateway to the South and is thriving nowadays especially because of the IT boom. Although not known for high rises it has some interesting buildings from the British raj times to modern ones plus the ever famous Pallava architecture from the nearby historic Mahabalipuram village. Chennai is a good blend of tradition and modernity..plus relatively less poluted and greener !











 
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#87 ·
Very good pictures! Nice streetscape pics, shows how clean Chennai has become (really, everywhere). There used to be cows, cowdung and garbage everywhere, now they've cleaned up everything. And nice to see that the bus in that pic isn't titlting one side and doing a balancing act :lol Looks like slowly the MRTS system is working! Nice new towers too.
 
#94 ·
oh, just found out Chennai is Madras!! no wonder i've nerver heard it before..

anybody can tell me when and why change the name? what is the meaning behind those names? i know mumbai also has old name as bombay....is there any change of the meaning? guess not....imo, bombay sound better....

btw, hope chennai can recover from the tsunami soon....
 
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