Selective Amnesia There was a point to this. But I forgot.

The fifth Chennai Photowalk

Is on. It will be held on the 16th of March, 2008.
The route’s been unanimously decided by a committee comprising me and all my alter egos.

We will walk down Egmore’s Pantheon Road. But we’ll first finish some unfinished business. The Third Photowalk was supposed to cover the three major railway stations in Madras, the Royapuram, the Central and the Egmore. We couldn’t do it for want of time and energy. Therefore, this, the fifth will begin where the third was supposed to end.

At Egmore Railway station – a beautiful, fascinating station that was originally the Madras terminal of the South India Railway, headquartered at Trichy.

From Egmore station, we’ll walk south, across Commissioner’s office road, and into Pantheon Road. And that’s where the beauty starts. Buildings, in classical Indo-Saracenic, classical Victorian architecture, and to ward away evil eyes, a building in classical PWD/Govt.Of India architecture that forms the Museum campus. The recently restored Connemara library is a treat, if we can get the gatekeepers to let us take our camera in.

We will also cover the historically insignificant, shopping-ly significant Prince and Fountain plazas and end the day at the Bridge over the river Kwai Cooum.

So, then, that’s the walk. The other details: Time: 8 AM. Date: Sunday 16th March 2008.