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What ails Parry’s Corner — colonial history or civic apathy?

November 13, 2018 Laasya Shekhar

Once a historic town in itself, Parry’s Corner is a text-book example of unplanned development, with poor traffic, dingy and unclean roads, and overall chaos. But does history too have a role to play in the present condition of this central Chennai neighbourhood?

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