Here goes… This is not in any order and more will follow:

1. Yale University
2. Music Academy and the Music Season
3. Chepauk and the Wallajah Road end
4. MS Subbulakshmi
5. Rukmini Devi Arundale and Kalakshetra
6. The Hindu
7. Srinivasa Ramanujan
8. The Madras Experiment in TB cure
9. Madras Eye!
10. Hotel Saravana Bhavan
11. S Anantharamakrishnan and Amalgamations
12. Central Station
13. IIT Madras
14. Nallis
15. Buharis and chicken 65
16. TVS (strictly from Madurai but has been here long enough)
17. EID Parry (since 1788!!)
18. Silk Smitha
19. The Marina
20. Periyar EV Ramaswami Naicker (from Erode but then he was a Chennai man for long)
21. Indo Saracenic architecture beginning from Chepauk Palace
22. Arupathu Moovar
23. Brilliant Tutorials
24. T Nagar
25. Mylapore
26. Buckingham Canal
27. Apollo Hospitals
28. Sankara Nethralaya
29. Dina Thanthi
30. The Dravidian Movement
31. Midday meal scheme
32. Viswanathan Anand
33. AR Rahman
34. Rajinikanth
35. The Emden
36. Robert Fellowes Chisholm (think Senate House)
37. Manorama
38. Ananda Vikatan
39. Gemini and SS Vasan
40. Annie Besant
41. The Theosophical Society
42. Rajaji
43. LIC building
44. Spencers
45. Binny
46. Sujatha (writer)
47. Higginbothams
48. Dubba Chetty kadai
49. Ratna Cafe
50. Ramanathan Krishnan

More to follow…