Years ago, when I began heritage walks in Chennai, I had said it had the potential for 100 different heritage routes. I have done 75 so far within the city. For good measure, I have thrown in the 24 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
- The Tamil Nadu Police Museum
- Art Deco Heritage of Town
- The Motor Car comes to Mount Road
- The Southern Railway Headquarters
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)
24. Hoysala Heritage (Dec 2021)
25. Nagercoil, Suchindram and Around
26. Marvelling at the Mughals – Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri
Excellent Sir. There must have corresponding posts on each of the out-station tours. why not a tour of Cauvery Delta with Sri.Muthuswami Dikshitar? (illustrations for RaviSri series of articles). I read your posts on shrines in Akanda Kavery. Very nice. I would suggest Chitambaram, Mayavaram,Vaitheeswaran koil, Thiruvaaroor, Nagapatnam, Sikkal and Vedaranyam. ..along with the kshetra kruthis. With lots of photos. Will be very educative to me. …Could you please give links to existing posts? Have you covered Azhagar Kovil near Madurai? /Pushpavanam’? (is it Thiruppuvanam?)
My wife and I had the good fortune to attend only two out of these 90+ trips, one was
The Lawyers of Luz Church Road and the other
Temple Tour along the Palar
We enjoyed them both, especially the the second one. Sriram’s narratives on the temples and the appropriate music provided by the two sisters, Ms Archana and Ms Aarthy, were just wonderful. Those iconic lawyers of Mylapore that we heard about and the architectural splendor of the Palar trmples made us feel proud of our heritage, cultural and peoplewise and even today the feelings are still there.
Living in a foreign country and coming there only at certain times, this is the best we could do. I wonder whether there is someone who has been in at least 50 of these tours.
Kudos to Sriram and Sarada for producing these tours and making them so memorable.