Showing posts with label tradition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tradition. Show all posts

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Pondy Bazaar


Side by Side

Pondy Bazaar in T.Nagar is one of the oldest shopping and business hubs in Chennai. It has been around for a long time, predating India's independence in 1947. Way back then it was the shopping hub for well-to-do Indian doctors, lawyers and businessmen who lived in the spacious bungalows in T.Nagar. Today, many of the bungalows are being transformed into multi-storied condos while Pondy Bazaar has become a microcosm of 21st century India where tradition and modernity comfortably coexist--slick department stores alongside hole in the wall shops, bicycles with motor cars, styrofoam plates with raw coconuts, pedestrians with jam packed buses...as a visual spectacle it will take the critical eye a long time to unpack. Take a look...





It may not seem like it these are thriving shops that have been around for a long time


Colorful!


Choices, choices




Home Decor Anyone?




 Chappals or Jewelry?!



Flowers!!!









21st century Chennai


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