Chennai celebrated its 368th birthday on Wednesday, 22nd 2007.Madras day is being celebrated for the past four years. This time, heritage walks and talks have been organized by the famous city historian S Muthiah and a few other people. This is a city still very deep rooted in culture, and which is growing modern at a breathtaking speed. Sadly, many of its heritage buildings have been pulled down and have given way to ugly multi storied buildings. Few people can forget the old Moore Market with its little shops , selling everything under the sun. One could pick up rare second hand books there. Recently, the old Bharat Insurance Building on Anna Salai was saved from the bull dozers by the Madras High Court. It is being renovated now.
Chennai is growing very fast .There seem to be new constructions coming up everywhere. One can see massive gleaming IT Parks on the Ring Road. The It Corridor (OMR) looks very inviting. The first stretch has been completed and hopefully the whole length of the road will be completed before 2008.
For those of you who do not live at Chennai, the price of one ground of land on that stretch (OMR) is a mind boggling Rs One Crore. Hard to imagine, huh!
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