This is that month of the year when research and presentations on Madras reach fever pitch. Some, however, seem to be ever prepared with something new, or old, depending on how you look at it. Karthik Bhatt who is of that kind, sends me Chennai Kanchi, a poem on the city, written in 1939 by Ra. Krishnamurthy, teacher at the Nagarathar High School, Devakottai.
It was one of three publications on the city to be brought out that year, which some sections in the city observed as the tercentenary of its founding. The first was the Madras Tercentenary Volume, edited by Rao Bahadur C.S. Srinivasachari and containing articles contributed by various members of a tercentenary committee. The second was The History of the City of Madras written by C.S. Srinivasachari, and the third was Chennai Kanchi.
