Never Mind This New Upstart Chennai

Chennai, court
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Madras has changed - some even call it Chennai now. But an ode to its memory and warmth of the past keeps the old city alive.

Very briefly then, I am middle class
and very Madras.
Born and raised in
West Mambalam –
the other side of the railway tracks
where fabled mosquitoes turn
people into elephants.
Went to college in
Khushboo sarees stripped
right off the absurdly voluptuous
mannequins at
Saravana Stores T. Nagar
Chennai 17.



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