Green Park Hotel

Everything you should know

by foodnut

I really enjoyed walking the evening markets in Parry's. Tell your driver to stop you opposite the Central Bus Station.
Here you'll find almost every ware you could possible imagine, it will be a culture shock to see how these people live and sell their produce.
You'll walk through intoxicating strectches of alleyways filled with flowers, stacked pyramids of juicy local fruit, glittering gemstones and polished gold, freshly cooked local food, streets filled with aluminium pots of all shapes and sizes, fluttering silk sarees at unimaginably cheap prices..etc How everything is so cheap

When You Need a Taste of the West

by tayloretc about Amma Naana

This grocery store stocks mostly western goods, including some brands not otherwise easily found in the city. If you need cajun spice or refried beans, marguerita mixer or Liquid Plumber, you're likely to find it here. Anything imported costs more than local equivalents. Although there are no local equivalents for refried beans or cranberry juice...

Sparky's Diner in Chetpet, Chennai

by daveb2006

A great American style restaurant to visit is Sparky's Diner in Chetpet. There is a good range of Italian, American, Mexican and Cajun food there. My favorites were the Chicken Marsala and also the Lasgana. Meals can be topped off with a good brownie/ice cream sundae. Interesting decorations are all around the restaurant, good music. An American guy, Thom Petty, runs the place and the food is excellent. Definitely worth a visit!

Ramkrishna Mission Ashram

by goutammitra

Situated at Marina Beach facing the Indian Ocean, RamKrishna Mission Ashram is great Indian centre of learning and meditation. Started by famous Indian Saint Swami Vivekananda at Calcutta , now Ramkrishna Mission Ashram is all over the country. They have schools and a special teaching method. It is seen that all the boys are very brilliant, they score very high marks at all exams and are considered better citizens of this country. The school is open for all cast and creed even Muslims and Christians of India may get education there. The teachers are equally brilliant as they are all past students of the mission, have opted for very difficult life of monkhood( Celibacy).

A place many miss or do not give a thought but in my view the place is worth visiting.

Rajiv Gandhi Memorial

by NedHopkins

"Rajiv Gandhi Memorial"

About half-way between Chenai and Kanchipuram lies this memorial to Rajiv Gandhi.

Elder son of Indira Gandhi -- herself assassinated by her Sikh guards -- Rajiv had been prime minister of India and was campaigning for a new Congress Party majority when a Tamil nationalist detonated a body bomb, killing herself and Rajiv.

The monument is both monumental and tasteful. Along one side is a bas relief, in concrete, celebrating the many occupations and technologies that call to modern India's billion people.