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What is the funda?

The sylvan campus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras sits a good degree Celsius cooler than the rest of the city. Here, deer prance alongside runners in the tracks; bonnet macaques hang around the residential hostels. At dusk, rose-ringed parakeets flock over tree-canopies. The...

Photowalks for The City

Not too long ago, our city did treat its own history like a classified document -- privy but to a few. In a city where taking photos of public buildings is dissuaded, a group of camera-toting locals have quietly turned walking into an act of...