“There are many things that happened in the area…it’s just that either not many want to know about it, or that people don’t talk about what Things changed over the years as more establishments came up in and around West Mambalam it lost its prominence and became a ‘submissive locale’. Those were very different times,” she recalls. Same was the case for buying butter…we had to walk all the way till Thayar Dairy in Ranganathan street. “The shop used to have vanilla ice cream and if we wanted a cold drink, we had to walk all the way to Salam stores. The rickshaw puller would narrate stories of the MGR movie he watched the previous day, throughout the journey,” she narrates.įrom watching the ‘Duraiswamy’ subway being constructed, to walking to the only ice cream shop in the locality - ‘Universal’, she had experienced it all.
“When I was in Fatima Convent school, I remember taking the cycle-rickshaw to school everyday. West Mambalam is more than just another area for Padmapriya, as she was born and raised there. “Mambalam is often called the ‘cousin of Mylapore’, yet it has never received as much as prominence,” she says. With this in focus, Padmapriya will be curating a walk through West Mambalam, as part of the Madras Week celebrations. “It is important to learn about the place we live in…through this, we can create awareness on the rich history and also document it for the future generation,” opines Padmapriya Baskaran, heritage blogger and founder, Aalayam Kanden Trust.
CHENNAI: If you have ever been part of a heritage walk before, one advice you’d hear from the person who leads/guides the walk is to understand the history, institutions and its people in the locality we live in.
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