Following is a link for an interesting article I read about Madras Day celebrations that is going happen next month. It gives an interesting view that we are ignoring more older historical things when celebrating Madras day. Check the article in the following link.
It gives an interesting > view that we are ignoring more older historical things when > celebrating Madras day.
"On 22 August 1639, Francis Day secured the Grant by the Damarla Venkatadri Nayakudu, Nayak of Wandiwash giving over to the British East India Company a three-mile long strip of land, a fishing village called Madraspatnam, copies of which were endorsed by Andrew Cogan, the Chief of the Masulipatam Factory, and are even now preserved. The Grant was for a period of two years and empowered them to build a fort and castle on an approximate 5 square kilometre sand strip.....Francis Day, his dubash (Interpreter) Beri Thimmanna Chetti and their superior Andrew Cogan can be considered as the founders of Madras (now Chennai)
Hi sivaram
I think PS group can do its bit.
we could list all surviving monuments prior to that date. we could list the rulers who may have mentioned places in this town also list the royal edicts surviving still
and a lot more for our city. if we start now perhaps we could convince the organisers to include them too.
For our group, such things are food for thought. But the masses out of the group...I feel kollywood is feeding wrong history. Atleast the throwing of idol and saiva-vaishnavite conflict in Dasavatharam are true and the rest exaggerated history...I am not sure about St.Thomas, when everything is speculation and not even a single proof to ascertain any of them.
Another version I read is, the remains for St.Thomas was sent to Syria (??) by the then king in around 54AD or so.... so etha nambarathu...
on the lighter note - I heard that Nakkeeran did a review on Dasavatharam collection and it seems even the records made by Sivaji are broken. There are remote instances where distributors incurred loss with Sivaji but no loss with Dasavatharam. Sathyam theater saw a 40 year record high collection of 92 lakhs in just 17 days. Mayajal collected around 90 lakhs in just 14 days where as with Sivaji it was 1.2 crores in 118 days. And it seems for the first time repeat audience for Kamal movie which is very rare.
Again, people -dont brand me as Kamal fanatic...I am just sharing the info i read. Nothing more nothing less...
Vijay, I saw 'Missiamma' recently and there was a scene where Gemini/Savitri were boarding trams in Chennai. It was truly intersting to watch, Missiama was made in 1955 I think.