Rajesh Chaturvedi, Director (Systems & Operations), Chennai Metro Rail Limited, and D. Muralidharan, Director, Mark Metro, were also present.| Photo Credit:Akhila Easwaran A photograph of a hand-pulled rickshaw and a tram sharing the road in October 1938.
Fast forward to 2015, hordes of passengers wait in the platform to board the first Chennai Metro Rail train. ‘Nagarum Nam Nagaram - Our Changing and Moving City’, the archival photo exhibit of The Hindu showcases how the city’s transportation and commuting patterns have been over the years and shaped the city to what it is today. Greater Chennai Corporation Mayor Priya Rajan, who inaugurated archival photo exhibit as part of the Festival of Chennai - Madras Month 2024 organised by The Hindu, said, it was fascinating to have a glimpse of the how the city has transformed with time.
“Chennai is a beautiful ancient city. The city and its people have welcomed everyone coming here and given a lot of warmth. Except for The Hindu, I don’t think anyone could have an extensive collection of the city’s photographs back then and now,” she said.
She appreciated The Hindu’s painstaking efforts for capturing and maintaining the archives of the city’s glimpses through the years. Thirupurasundari Sevvel, historian and curator of the exhibition said, the theme talks about how the city was moving in many ways. “Chennai is changing because of so many things.
But the main thing that it is changing is, the people. They keep ad.