Articles of category "Chennai"

Chennai travel is for you if you want to discover India and you want to spend your vacation in a calm and not overcrowded town. Chennai travel will give a chance to feel yourself as part of so famous British and Indian relations. The thing is that Chennai is the city which came into existence not 400 odd years ago as a result of a gifted piece of land to the commercial travelling British. Accommodation and transportation is cheap & efficient. One strange thing about this place is that the Tamil film stars are worshipped as Gods and Goddesses here. One can even spot temples dedicated to some film star. MGR and Jayalalitha are two famous film stars who left their cinema career to become chief ministers on basis of their popularity in movies.

Chennai is India's fourth largest city, and the capital of Tamil Nadu state. It's an enjoyable place because it suffers far less from the congestion and overcrowding than other big Indian cities. However this is rapidly changing and it won't be long before it rivals the others for bustle, noise and fumes.In colonial days, Chennai was the center of conflict between English and French for supremacy over India. It also acted as a base for Britishers during the Carnatic wars. Due to its location, Chennai is known as the Gateway of Southern India. The East India company built a fort in 1639 and developed Madras as one of the major trading centers in India.