Ctaching the tail of my previous mail!! Yes the city os 368 years old but is that the city
...this was a place which we know existed from times before
People dont celebrate the Paris City its still from the Ile de France a fishing village People dont celebrate Rome for the mordern city but take pride in Romes and Remulus legend or some even believe in the fleeing Trojan Aenis carrying the sword of troy to rome
Agreed we celebrate Madras but at any point do we claim this was evolved from fishing villages, trade hamlets....rajendra chola had hi army in tiruvottriyur.....there are paadal pettra sthalams ....
do we find all this in any of our tour brochures???books??
I think that has to be rectified today....
Soon the advancing IT belt will swallow whats left of the old Pallava heritage in mamallapuram if we are not careful