The Jalsa and Jilpa Map of Chennai

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I tried looking up the map of Chennai on Google Maps. And I got this.

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It completely confused me. In my mind, the only useful map of Chennai would look like this.

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I have no idea why Google is trying to confuse me.

ps: Uppolojees. This post is rather Chennai-centric and may not make sense to Non-Chennaiites.

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27 responses to “The Jalsa and Jilpa Map of Chennai”

  1. Voracious Blog Reader Avatar
    Voracious Blog Reader

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    Weekendboozapuram
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    Haw haw haw haw haw. ROTFL.

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    Big Brother Road, Presidency Galeej
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    Hayo KA, yeppadi ippadilaam yosikkarel? Wonderful.

    Voracious Blog Reader

  2. krishashok Avatar

    VBR,
    Thank you.
    For some reason , Akismet spam filter considers any comments with two forward slashes (“//” ) to be spam, and I usually have to rescue most of your comments from the “Awaiting Moderation” list 🙂 I wish Akismet learnt from this (as it claims to do) but it doesn’t seem to.

  3. rambodoc Avatar

    NaaMumz, Wee Bootings trail-la I got lost…
    Naamams (Iyengars) and Vibhutis (Iyers) 🙂

  4. Marc Avatar

    Oi, you forgot Jilpa headquarters – your house in Besant Nagar.

  5. K Avatar

    WeekendBoozaPuram !!!!! Made my day !!

  6. Vinod Avatar
    Vinod

    Elites beach and kadalai sundal beach?! ha ha ha, spot on!…

  7. Vasoo Avatar
    Vasoo

    Krish, some more reberance

    1. Cobalapuram
    2. Punidha Thomayyar malai
    3. eggibishan groundu
    4. Samiyar Rodu
    5. Kathikaran pettai

  8. maxdavinci Avatar

    VISAlakshi kovil is just superrrrrrrrrrrr….

    kalakare machi……

    even a non-chennaite like me luvd it!

  9. Ravi Avatar

    Completely enamored by your blog…funtastic stuff only u write…have blogrolled u!
    thank you sir

  10. Vijay Avatar

    வணக்கம் தலைவா.
    I’m speechless with admiration.
    You’ve got yourself a new fan.
    இன்னும் சில நாட்களில் ஒரு ரசிகர் மன்றம்் தொடங்கலாம்ன்்னு ஒரு idea-கீது.

  11. farkandfunk Avatar
    farkandfunk

    DEFINITELY one of your best! I shed tears of happiness when I read weekendaboozepuram and VISAlakshi kovil :-). Brilliant touch.

  12. Lakshmi Avatar

    Coming over from Vijay’s. Tears-in-eyes routine to see another blogger that loves Madras (“Chennai” be d@##&d) the way I do. Definitely adding you on to my reader.
    Goo Worm River ! Priceless !

  13. krishashok Avatar

    Ravi, Lakshmi, Maxdavinci, Farkandfunk, Vijay
    Thank you very much 🙂

  14. bharath Avatar

    aiya. yenga oor kooda keedhe…

  15. Prajeesh Avatar

    “Kurudhai Odings Grounds” it seems. Amazing 😀

  16. Deepu Avatar
    Deepu

    Weekendboozapuram…. ultimate dude!!!

  17. guhan Avatar
    guhan

    the map is not all clear…………………
    Google is confusing people………………
    eventhough im a chennaite & hav gud knowledge in geography,the map is confusing…………..
    im sorry to say this.

  18. dsds Avatar

    rewrewrwerwerwe

  19. ahumanbean Avatar
    ahumanbean

    Zimbly I lovvvve this map saar. Always I vanted vun map of my Mylapore/Madras and now I have the perrrfect vun.

    It’s even better that wonly us Madras peeples can understand much of it 🙂

  20. anjana Avatar

    ROTFL!! i must confess, in spite of professionally dabbling in maps, ur version is a much more simpler and user-friendly one 😉

    “central teshan” “elites beach” “kadalai sundal beach” “jee-spot” (studied there, so love it even more :D)…. SPOT ON!!

  21. Dilip Avatar
    Dilip

    I need to be updated

  22. hariharan Avatar

    Sir, ungala adichika aale illa. You grab my weekend sir. Enna koduma Zend. @vijay, sir if you are planning to make cut-out of KRISHASHOK and do MILK BATHING, 100 meters above SEA LEVEL i will also join you sir.

  23. s1gh3d Avatar

    Nice one dude…here after reading ur post @ cricinfo.com…this map is surely goin to be world famous in chennai…

    some suggestion when u plan to update…

    ‘Truth’ Theaters
    Ramar Pirandha Kuppam
    Panakkara Theru

  24. hamonth Avatar
    hamonth

    haiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

  25. Haley Fuller Avatar

    krishashok.wordpress.com’s done it once more! Great writing.

  26. 3inone Avatar

    Loved the map. I was a student in Madras (not Chennai) 20 years ago. You brought back a lot of memories with this map.

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