While leafing through the endless articles of Wikipedia I chanced upon something which might be of great importance to the people of Chennai or it might be discarded as another bit of useless amusement of the author but I have decided to write it down anyway complete with The Beatles playing through my ears.
As I was on the quest for the historical significance of the various districts and localities in and around Chennai which was once the Madras Presidency, to my amusement and to the common thinking which was wrong in all these years K.K.Nagar the locality which I happen to reside in was surprisingly one of the older localities and Wikipedia neutrally told me that Ashok Nagar was established in 1964 while K.K.Nagar came up in later in the seventies, all this while I had been thinking that I had been living in a locality which was more than 50 years old poor me, but then it hardly makes a difference, going by the other articles Vadapalani and Kodambakkam seem to have been here before the others arrived and Nungambakkam has been mention in the 1911 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. The things our localities can teach us cannot be significant as the kind of science fiction that I try and put down but definitely significant than the pictures of actresses one sees in the back page of Chennai Times which has nothing to with the city considering any minute possibility which I am not willing to do.
Some of the localities are not provided with their backgrounds which makes it difficult for to imagine the correct chronological order about how the city expanded, yes I know I have written as if this article should be taken very seriously, some urban historians might find things interesting. Ans yes they have mentioned
Satyeki
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