Ashokmitran’s Chennai – Translated from Tamil by K.S. Subramanian

Description

Ashokamitran’s Chennai is a wonderful ode to the city by a veteran writer who moved to Chennai as a young man of twenty, and loved his adopted home. With his trademark wit, perceptiveness and lucidity, he describes the city’s tanks, its stations, its parks, statutes, lanes and alleys. Rich in anecdotes, this book of essays captures the evolution of Chennai from a ‘big’ city after Independence to a bustling metropolitan centre and traces its social, economic and political history from the early 1950s to the turn of the century.