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-Tom Wilson
From the Streets of Parry Corner, Chenai,
Teenage kid in his working atmosphere in a Stainless steel factory, Walltax Road, Chennai, India.
He is paid for Rs.225 INR as a daily wage ($4.5) and his working hours are 14+ hrs per day, starts from morning 5.30am to evening 8pm.
The place was dark and coated with black dusts.
Teenage kid in his working atmosphere in a Stainless steel factory, Walltax Road, Chennai, India.
He is paid for Rs.225 INR as a daily wage ($4.5) and his working hours are 14+ hrs per day, starts from morning 5.30am to evening 8pm.
Panned. He wasn't going particularly fast, but there was some quick movement. Sharp enough a picture, considering the circumstances. Cross-processed and a little fudged around with.
Taken during the 7th Chennai Photowalk, on the 11th of May, 2008. 32 people came for this walk, besides a few dozen curious residents of Mylapore.
How Mylapore secures its possessions.
Taken during the 7th Chennai Photowalk on the 11th of May, 2008. 32 people came for this walk, besides a few dozen curious residents of Mylapore.
Peter Orr, - P.Orr & Sons. Timekeepers of Madras Yore.
I learnt my Madras history from a man called Muthiah. So, I'll let him tell you the www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/06/18/stories/2003061...
Peter Orr, a watch and chronometer maker from Scotland, and his younger brother Alexander, an Edinburgh lawyer, were in their forties - late to be seeking your fortunes in the East - when they arrived in Madras in 1843. No sooner on landing, they joined George Gordon & Co., Popham's Broadway, who had been in the watch business in Madras from 1792. In 1849, the Orr's took over the business from a retiring Gordon and relocated it on 6-8 Mount Road, presumably the present site. Here, Peter Orr's Sons, James and Robert - who trained in watch making in Switzerland - joined the firm in the 1850s and, in 1863, became partners in what became P. Orr and Sons. Orr senior went back to England in 1866, James died in 1869 and it was left to Robert Orr to nurture the firm. Which he did so successfully that it not only raised that splendid building it remains in - though now little tended - but also established an all-India reputation and one beyond the seas as well.
An old but still functioning Bajaj Chetak. For a while I was driving (I intended to use the word driving. Riding is for horses. Driving is for mechanised vehicles. in my book) an LML Vespa. This was before the CBZ. And then, again, for a short while after I came back from Dubai, I had the Vespa for transport. Now of course, is the Royal Enfield Bullet.
Taken during the 7th Chennai Photowalk, on the 11th of May, 2008. 32 people came for this walk, besides a few dozen curious residents of Mylapore.
The Santhome Basilica.
Legend has it that St. Thomas - the Doubting Thomas, the apostle of Jesus - travelled to India and finding conditions perfect in what is now Madras settled down here. He lived on a small hill we now call the St. Thomas' mount and walked from there to the beach (of which Madras has plenty) to spread the word of his god.
Nobody knows what happened, but around 72 AD he dies on these shores.
So when the Portuguese came to Madras in the 1500s, they heard the legend and wanted to build a church over the grounds that St. Thomas lived/died. Only issue was, (according to legend) that there was this ancient temple built by the Pallavas - Kapaleswara - at the same spot.
So the Portuguese either started demolishing the old temple, or somehow convinced the local population to move their temple. Which they did (the current Mylapore Kapaleswara temple moved inland and rebuilt sometime then - there is considerable proof for that.) and thus the Portuguese built their church.
When the British came to Madras, they rebuilt the small church into the Basilica we see today.
Apparently, Santhome Basilica is one of the three churches in the world that's built over the relics/remains of an apostle. The other two are in Rome and Spain.
Taken during the 7th Chennai Photowalk, on the 11th of May, 2008. 32 people came for this walk, besides a few dozen curious residents of Mylapore.
The Santhome Basilica.
Legend has it that St. Thomas - the Doubting Thomas, the apostle of Jesus, travelled to India and finding conditions perfect in what is now Madras settled down here. He lived on a small hill we now call the St. Thomas' mount and walked from there to the beach (of which Madras has plenty) to spread the word of his god.
Nobody knows what happened, but around 72 AD he dies on these shores.
So when the Portuguese came to Madras in the 1500s, they heard the legend and wanted to build a church over the grounds that St. Thomas lived/died. Only issue was, (according to legend) that there was this ancient temple built by the Pallavas - Kapaleswara - at the same spot.
So the Portuguese either started demolishing the old temple, or somehow convinced the local population to move their temple. Which they did (the current Mylapore Kapaleswara temple moved inland and rebuilt sometime then - there is considerable proof for that.) and thus the Portuguese built their church.
When the British came to Madras, they rebuilt the small church into the Basilica we see today.
Apparently, Santhome Basilica is one of the three churches in the world that's built over the relics/remains of an apostle. The other two are in Rome and Spain.
Taken during the 7th Chennai Photowalk, on the 11th of May, 2008. 32 people came for this walk, besides a few dozen curious residents of Mylapore.
How Mylapore secures its possessions.
Taken during the 7th Chennai Photowalk on the 11th of May, 2008. 32 people came for this walk, besides a few dozen curious residents of Mylapore.
Simpson & Co. Coach builders for the Railways. The oldest business house on Mount Road.
Housed in a magnificent Art-Deco building, with Art-Deco walls keeping us firmly out of the campus
How Mylapore secures its possessions.
Taken during the 7th Chennai Photowalk on the 11th of May, 2008. 32 people came for this walk, besides a few dozen curious residents of Mylapore.
A rickshaw (old-style cycle rickshaws, pedalled, not motor-powered) man rests near the Mylapore tank.
Taken during the 7th Chennai Photowalk, on the 11th of May, 2008. 32 people came for this walk, besides a few dozen curious residents of Mylapore. :)
Taken during the 7th Chennai Photowalk, on the 11th of May, 2008. 32 people came for this walk, besides a few dozen curious residents of Mylapore.
P for Photowalk. Also P for Parking.
Taken during the 7th Chennai Photowalk, on the 11th of May, 2008. 32 people came for this walk, besides a few dozen curious residents of Mylapore.
Taken during the 7th Chennai Photowalk, on the 11th of May, 2008. 32 people came for this walk, besides a few dozen curious residents of Mylapore.
Taken during the 7th Chennai Photowalk, on the 11th of May, 2008. 32 people came for this walk, besides a few dozen curious residents of Mylapore.
Waiting for the day to begin.
Taken during the 7th Chennai Photowalk, on the 11th of May, 2008. 32 people came for this walk, besides a few dozen curious residents of Mylapore. :)
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