Archive for the Madras Week Category
August 17, 2020
In connection with the 2020 Madras Day events, Mylapore Times is hosting a contest for Chennai school students. It is in English. Every year, in August various groups, clubs, organisations and individuals get up events like heritage walks, talks, contests, quizzes, shows […]
August 14, 2020
C. P. R. Institute of Indological Research is organising an online ‘Madras Day Quiz’. The quiz consists of both questions and pictures that must be identified. The quiz will be uploaded for one hour on Monday, August 17, at 12.00 noon. on the Institute’s […]
September 1, 2019
Food Walks are always popular in this city. Even if they are repeated many times over in one area. So The Mylapore Food Walk held on Saturday evening in Mylapore as part of the Madras Day celebrations drew a goodly […]
September 1, 2019
The team of St. Anthony’s Girls Hr Sec School, R. A. Puram were presented the rolling trophy after winning the annual Madras Quiz in Thamizh for Thamizh medium schools conducted as part of the Madras Day/Chennai Dinam celebrations for 2019. […]
August 31, 2019
A group of cinema enthusiasts led by writer P. C. Bala gathered on August 30 at Cream Centre in R. A. Puram to discuss the theme ‘Madras and Movies’ as part of Madras Day celebrations. Actor Raja Krishnamurthy, popularly known […]
August 27, 2019
Sridhar Venkataraman will lead a Food Walk in Mylapore on Saturday, August as part of the annual Madras Day celebration. The Walk allows people to get to know popular and less-known food joints which are known for their tiffin or […]
August 27, 2019
Mylapore Times is conducting a Madras Quiz in Thamizh for Thamizh medium schools in the city to mark Madras Day 2019. It will be held on Aug.31, 2 p.m.onwards at the hall in the Mylapore MLA office campus on C. […]
August 26, 2019
Chartered accountant Karthik Bhatt and journalist Srinivasa Ramanujam won the annual Madras Quiz 2019 on Sunday held at the MMA auditorium in the city. It was held as part of the annual Madras Day celebrations. Both are residents of the […]
August 23, 2019
An exhibition of rare pictures of ‘old’ Madras is now on at the gallery of the C.P.R. Institute of Indological Research in Alwarpet. It is on till Aug. 31. 10. a.m. to 6 p.m. The place is on Eldams Road. […]
August 23, 2019
A new board game was created and played in connection with Madras Day at the Board Room, a space for board games and a cafe on Bheemana Garden Street, Mylapore. The game on the city was curated by theatreperson Krishna […]
August 23, 2019
The Mylapore port was as much a centre of trade as the Mamallapuram port under the Pallavas. In a much later age, retail trade in Mylapore thrived, and continues to, in all the streets around the temple and extending further. Madras […]
August 23, 2019
A special postal and postal cancellation were released at the Marina Light House on Thursday evening to commemorate 175 years of the city’s second light house which stands inside the Madras High Court campus. Justice Sivagnanam did the honours in […]
August 22, 2019
Department of Light Houses under Ministry of Shipping, central government is releasing a special postal cover to mark 175 years of Chennai/Madras’ 2nd Light House, now located inside the Madras High Court campus. The event will be held today, on […]
August 21, 2019
Chettinad Vidyashram school team bagged the second prize in the annual Madras Day Heritage of Chennai contest hosted by Mylapore Times. This was part of the Madras Day 2019 celebrations. This year the thee for study and presentation in public […]
August 20, 2019
11 city schools have looked at and studied three old stores in their backyard and will make a Power Point presentation this morning at Srinivasa Sastri Hall, Mylapore in a Madras Day contest that is held annually. The theme given […]
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