Years ago, when I began heritage walks in Chennai, I had said it had the potential for 100 different heritage routes. I have done 73 so far within the city. For good measure, I have thrown in the 23 outstation tours as well.
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Here is the tally till date:
Local Tours :
- Musical Heritage of Mylapore
- Musical Heritage of George Town
- Musical Heritage of Triplicane
- The Dancing Girls of George Town
- Wandering Around Vepery
- The Women of the Marina
- Triplicane
- Mylapore
- Kutcheri Road
- The Portuguese Influence on San Thome
- The Town Wall of Madras
- Peering at Purasawalkam
- A Slice of Mount Road
- Checking Out Chintadripet
- The Justice Party Walk
- T Nagar
- Armenian Street
- Meandering down Mint Street
- Broadway walk
- The Mercantile History of Madras
- NSC Bose Road
- Park Town
- Gandhi Nagar
- Alwarpet
- Roundabout Royapettah
- The Ghosts of RK Salai
- George Town by Night
- The Village of Mylapore
- V Krishnaswami Iyer Memorial Walk
- The Lawyers of Luz Church Road
- The Royal Madras Yacht Club
- Mylapore and The Freedom Struggle
- Going Around Gemini
- The Beach Walk
- Fort St George
- The Ice House Tour
- Tyagaraja’s Kovur
- Homes of the Music Academy
- The American Connection to Madras
- Royapuram
- Dubashes of George Town
- Lloyds Road
- Egmore and its Environs
- Coursing Down College Road
- The Madras Literary Society Walk
- A Demonetisation Tour of Mint Street
- The Musical Heritage of San Thome
- Cantering Down Komaleeswaranpet
- Kapaliswarar Temple and its tank
- The Constitution of India Walk
- Gopalakrishna Bharati & Vedanayagam Pillai Walk
- The German connection to Madras
- Around the Old Madras Club
- Colletspet & Tiruvottriyur
- An Eye on the Island (Island Grounds)
- A Heritage Tour within the Music Academy
- The Chennai Creative City Tour
- Libraries, Books and Authors of Mylapore
- Pulicat
- The Kapali Temple Festival Tour
- Once Upon a Nungambakkam
- The St Andrews Kirk and the Govt College of Fine Arts
- An Evening in Parry’s
- The Boat Club Area
- Madras from a Boat
- Navaratri with the Gujaratis of Town
- S Rajam Centenary Walk
- Books, Libraries and Newspapers of Triplicane
- Munching Through Mint Street – a food walk
- Traipsing through Teynampet
- The Chetties of Chetpet
- Checking out Choolai
- The Commander in Chief and his neighbours – heritage walk on Ethiraj Salai
- The Lost World of Binny’s
- Touring the Tamil Isai Sangam
Outstation tours :
1.Chidambaram
2. Tranquebar
3. Madurai
4. Trichy
5. Thanjavur
6. Kumbhakonam & Mayuram
7. Kanchipuram
8. Tyagaraja’s Thiruvaiyaru
9. Muthuswami Dikshitar’s Thiruvarur
10. Thiruvannamalai
11. Andal’s Srivilliputhur
12. Nagapattinam
13. Vellore & Arcot
14. The Heritage of Badami, Pattadakkal, Aihole and Hampi
15. Pondichery
16. Akanda Cauvery
17. Temple Tour Along the Palar
19. Come to Cambodia
20. Durga Puja in Kolkata
21. Nagarathar Nostalgia – a Heritage Tour of Chettinad
22. The Pathway to Pathai (Dec 2019)
23. Shirdi, Ajanta, Ellora and Aurangabad (Feb 2020)
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