Archive for the Shopping, Stores Category
January 12, 2021
The buzz that surrounds a festival is first evident in a marketplace. In the Mylapore zone, you get to feel that in the street markets of Mylapore’s mada streets and on Mandaveli Street. Last weekend, at least two hawkers of […]
December 20, 2020
Banas the fabric shop (originally called Banas Ethnics) has recently resumed its business after the pandemic break and is now at a new address close to where it was located in Alwarpet. Banas specialises in block prints, the age-old technique […]
December 13, 2020
Shopping for the festival of Christmas is slowly taking place in the ‘fancy’ goods stores in Luz and Mylapore. With less than two weeks to go for the annual festival, people were seen shopping in some shops in and off […]
November 11, 2020
The facade of Vivek’s store in Luz is brightly illuminated. As is its sister stores across Royapettah High Road. Metres away, on Kutchery Road the well-lit showcases of Gani’s, a popular clothes store for women are drawing in a steady […]
November 5, 2020
Aavin has released a whole variety of sweets for the Deepavali festival season. And you can shop for them locally at the Aavin store on C. P. Ramaswamy Road in Alwarpet ( at the Dr. Ranga Road junction). Stuffed dry […]
October 11, 2020
Finally, the shoppers began to stream into North Mada Street in Mylapore to take look and shop for bommais for this Navaratri season. They kept coming in since 4 p.m. and some took home bommais that appealed to them. Hawkers […]
September 24, 2020
During the lockdown, P. R. Athreyan, a resident of Mylapore for more than four decades, realised that many pet owners could not get quality food for their pets. They had to make do with the ones they got. So he […]
August 21, 2020
This is one artisan community that was reduced to mere numbers. Now, the virus has also badly affected them. The potters of the ‘kosapet’ of Mylapore are not making any images of lord Vinayaka this season. This community which resides […]
August 20, 2020
The colour is back on North Mada Street in Mylapore. At least, some of it is. The kolu bommai hawkers are back on the sidewalk braving the dangers that the virus till poses. This morning, a fair number of hawkers […]
August 2, 2020
There are Mylaporeans who cannot but check out on their favourite snacks store every other day. Even the pandemic condition does not dampen their desires. And one shop which exhibits that desire is this ever-popular store on Mathala Narayanan Street […]
July 23, 2020
More and more people are launching home-based services or businesses in these times. To bolster their incomes which have been affected during the pandemic times. The Lazars in San Thome is one such family. Though the man of the family, […]
July 10, 2020
For over three decades, rose milk and Softy at Senthil Softy Zone on Kutchery Road has been a favourite for Mylaporeans. Then there are snacks too – Samosa, Cutlet and the like. As with most businesses, this snacks joint was […]
June 26, 2020
To protest against the death of two Thoothukudi shopkeepers allegedly in police custody, pharmacies in the neighbourhood have shut down today (June 26) from 7 am. They will remain closed till 11 am today. Says the manager at Karuppiah pharmacy […]
June 5, 2020
Like to order for good quality mangoes – Banganapalle and Immam Pasand – grown in the orchards of Chittoor in Andhra? Contact San Thome resident Aagnes Lazar who, with her husband is arranging its sale in the south side of […]
June 4, 2020
T. Karthikeyan, owner of Ambal Oil Stores located in a mere 100 feet space, has been in business on Royapettah High Road, opposite Sri Anjaneya Temple for well over two decades. And is a destination for Mylaporeans. It sells cow ghee, […]
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