T Nagar
Packed shopping district of towering silk, sari and jewellery stores along crowded bazaar streets.
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About this audio guide
This guide to T Nagar in Chennai starts on Usman Road, where a big textile showroom caught fire before dawn on the last day of May, twenty seventeen. From there it reaches back to a court-ordered survey of nearby Ranganathan Street, the shop owners who took their fight to the Supreme Court, and the retired civil servant who sat on the committee watching them. Best heard on Usman Road, looking up at the storeys above the shopfronts.
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