When I visited Chennai five years ago, I spent a morning photographing signs for hardware stores in George Town. Among them was this one for Quality Machine Tools, which featured the most delicious, high-contrast Tamil lettering.

📍 George Town, Chennai
📅 March 2018
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/quality-machine-tools/

#IndiaStreetLettering #Tamil #Chennai #Madras

Arrested #TamilNadu Minister V. #Senthilbalaji suffered a major setback at the #Madras HC, with Justice C.V. Karthikeyan ruling that a habeas corpus petition (HCP) filed by his wife Megala, is not maintainable. | @imranhindu
https://trib.al/kdF1hrr #press

Just in: Justice CV Karthikeyan, the third judge named by #Madras HC CJ, aligns with the views taken by Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy in the habeas corpus petition filed by arrested Minister V #Senhilbalaji's wife Megala. The case goes against the Minister, reports @imranhindu #press

The #Madras HC has decided to embark on an exercise of quashing, en masse, all criminal cases registered against minor boys for having consensual relationships with, or having eloped with minor girls.

https://trib.al/460qx9h #press

#Madras HC, in a recent judgement, held that when a wife contributes to the acquisition of various assets in a family by performing household chores, then she should be entitled to an equal share in the family properties

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/madras-high-court-wife-equal-right-in-husbands-properties-kannaian-naidu-101687696116088.html #press

#Madras HC fines Madras bar association in 2012 case after a senior lawyer had denied providing drinking water to a junior lawyer in the association

(by @bydivyac)
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/high-court-fines-madras-bar-association-over-bias-in-2012-discrimination-case-101687605731563.html #press

From #Gujarat government moving 47,000 people to safety ahead of Cyclone Biparjoy’s landfall to #Madras High Court judge recusing himself from hearing the habeas corpus plea of T.N. Minister #Senthilbalaji’s wife, here's the top news of the day.
https://trib.al/6foa5TR #press

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Philip Glass, Ravi Shankar, Ravi Shankar, Madras, Partha Sarathy & T. Srinivasan:
🎵 Meetings Along the Edge

#PhilipGlass #RaviShankar #Madras #ParthaSarathy #TSrinivasan

In yet another tragic incident, an undergraduate student at IIT-#Madras died by suicide inside his hostel room on Friday.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/fourth-suicide-at-iit-madras-20-year-old-student-found-dead-in-hostel-room-suicide-note-recovered-case-registered-by-kotturpuram-police-mentalhealthawareness-iitmadras-suicideprevention-101682084914765.html #press

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Large collection of the 'Nawab Rulers' #IndianMiniaturePaintings received by Archibald Swinton (1731-1804) as 'Diplomatic Gifts' has been given to National Museum of #Scotland in 2021 in 'Lieu of Acceptance' tax of £2,267,370 on the Swinton estate.
Swinton travelled to #Madras #Chennai #India in 1752 & became an Army Surgeon with #EastIndiaCompany
Subsequently, due to his familiarity with local customs, he was appointed as the Chief Surgeon at #Calcutta #Bengal

#IndianHistory #Art #Heritage

Chicken Madras & the last of my homemade batch paste. Nowt fancy but killer flavour. The jars have a 6 month shelf life. #curry #Indian #madras

Stay Safe #Madras

Tech Advances in a Traditional City. #Madras #Chennai
My Tamil-English bilingual peeps, please watch and enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcAYdyihUFU

Lot no 24.

Two c1875 AD #CompanyPaintings of 'Botanical Studies' by Rungia Raju of #Madras (#Chennai) #India

On paper watermarked 'Thos. H. Saunders, London', these #Paintings were commissioned by Mountstuart Elphinstone Drant Duff, Governor General of Madras (1881-86), a keen Botanist. His father, a historian, had sailed to #Bombay #Mumbai in 1805 becoming a Lieutenant in #EastIndiaCompany

Saunders, a leading Paper manufacturer in England had opened his mill in 1840.
#History #Heritage #Art

Lot no 2 'A Green Snake' #CompanyPainting from #Madras (#Chennai).
Inscribed: 'A Green Snake from Mrs Moberly's Garden/ 25 July 1839'.
The 'Mrs Moberly' is thought to be Henrietta Moberly, wife of Lt. Colonel Henry Moberly, an Officer in the Army of #EastIndiaCompany who died at Madras on 12th August 1844, aged 51.
#CompanyPaintings or #CompanySchool #Art are #Paintings
of Flora, Fauna, Ordinary People, Places etc commissioned by members of the #European society of #India, using local artists.

Made steak madras with two ingredient naan bread. Turned out well for having never tried it before.
#cooking #cookingfromscratch #curry #steakmadras #madras #homemade

மக்கள் தொகையில் மூன்றாவது பெரிய நகரம் சென்னை
https://patrikai.com/madras-third-largest-populated-city-in-1871-census/ via @patrikaidotcom@twitter.com

#Madras #Population #Census #History

#சென்னை383 -வது பிறந்தநாள்: நிறைய சம்பவங்களை செய்யப் போறோம் என முதலமைச்சர் ஸ்டாலின் டிவிட்…
https://patrikai.com/chennais-383rd-birthday-we-are-going-to-do-a-lot-of-events-says-chief-minister-stalin/ via @patrikaidotcom@twitter.com

#ChennaiDay #Chennai383 #Madras #MadrasDay #madras383 #சென்னை @CMOTamilnadu@twitter.com @mkstalin@twitter.com @chennaicorp@twitter.com @chennai_day@twitter.com

“தற்காலிக ஆசிரியரை நியமிக்க என்ன அவசரம்?” இடைக்கால தடையை நீக்கக்கோரிய வழக்கில் அரசுக்கு நீதிபதி கேள்வி
https://patrikai.com/why-rush-to-appoint-a-temporary-teacher-judges-question-to-the-tn-govt/ via @patrikaidotcom@twitter.com

#Temporary #teacher #Recruitment #TamilNadu #TNGovt #MadrasHighCourt #Madras #highcourt