One of the advantages of writing, said N Ram of The Hindu once to me, was that you could always come back to a topic! It so happened that I was walking by the LLA Buildings last week and decided to pop in and take some photos of the sorry state of the Avvai Shanmugam Theatre.

Avvai Shanmugam Memorial Theatre, LLA Buildings, Anna Salai

Regulars to this blog will of course have read last week’s post on that thespian. My column in The Hindu featured this as its story this week – http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article3015316.ece