Years ago, when I began heritage walks in Chennai, I had said it had the potential for 100 different heritage routes. I have done 61 so far within the city. For good measure, I have thrown in the 13 outstation tours as well. If you want to be alerted about future walks/tours please send an email to walks@chennaipastforward.com
Here is the tally till date:
1. Musical Heritage of Mylapore
2. Musical Heritage of George Town
3. Musical Heritage of Triplicane
4. The Dancing Girls of George Town
5. Wandering Around Vepery
6. The Women of the Marina
7. Triplicane
8. Mylapore
9. Kutcheri Road
10. The Portuguese Influence on San Thome
11. The Town Wall of Madras
12. Peering at Purasawalkam
13. A Slice of Mount Road
14. Checking Out Chintadripet
15. The Justice Party Walk
16. T Nagar
17. Armenian Street
18. Meandering down Mint Street
19. Broadway walk
20. The Mercantile History of Madras
21. NSC Bose Road
22. Park Town
23. Gandhi Nagar
24. Alwarpet
25. Roundabout Royapettah
26. The Ghosts of RK Salai
27. George Town by Night
28. The Village of Mylapore
29. V Krishnaswami Iyer Memorial Walk
30. The Lawyers of Luz Church Road
31. The Royal Madras Yacht Club
32. Mylapore and The Freedom Struggle
33. Going Around Gemini
34. The Beach Walk
35. Fort St George
36. The Ice House Tour
37. Tyagaraja’s Kovur
38. Homes of the Music Academy
39. The American Connection to Madras
40. Royapuram
41. Chidambaram
42. Tranquebar
43. Madurai
44. Trichy
45. Thanjavur
46. Kumbhakonam
47. Dubashes of George Town
48. Lloyds Road
49. Egmore and its Environs
50. Coursing Down College Road
51. The Madras Literary Society Walk
52. Kanchipuram
53. A Demonetisation Tour of Mint Street
54. The Musical Heritage of San Thome
55. Tyagaraja’s Thiruvaiyaru
56. Cantering Down Komaleeswaranpet
57. Kapaliswarar Temple and its tank
58. The Constitution of India Walk
59. Gopalakrishna Bharati & Vedanayagam Pillai Walk
60. The German connection to Madras
61. Around the Old Madras Club
62. Colletspet & Tiruvottriyur
63. Muthuswami Dikshitar’s Thiruvarur
64. An Eye on the Island (Island Grounds)
65. Thiruvannamalai
66. Andal’s Srivilliputhur
67. A Heritage Tour within the Music Academy
68. The Chennai Creative City Tour
69. Libraries, Books and Authors of Mylapore
70. Pulicat
71. The Kapali Temple Festival Tour
72. Once Upon a Nungambakkam
73. Nagapattinam
74. The St Andrews Kirk and the Govt College of Fine Arts
75. An Evening in Parry’s
76. The Boat Club Area
77. Madras from a Boat
78. The Heritage of Badami, Pattadakkal, Aihole and Hampi
79. Navaratri with the Gujaratis of Town
Updated as on October 23, 2018
This is excellent!
Pl tell us details of next WALK
how about adding the date of each walk?