Ashok Babu
blogs from Bangalore
Latest posts by Ashok BabuThe full building, a few years ago Few buildings in India can claim to have witnessed an event that changed the visual identity of a nation. This old building on 251-A, West Masi Street is one such place... and how many of us from Madurai know about this history?In September 1921, during his 2nd vis...
Posted on 9 November 2026 | 7:24 pm
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Vittavasal - The Last Remnant of Madurai's Pandya FortVittavasal, situated on Amman Sannathi Street, near the Meenakshi Amman Temple, is a surviving fragment of Madurai's ancient fortifications. Believed to date back to the 12th-13th centuries, the gateway was once the eastern entrance to the fortif...
Posted on 9 November 2026 | 11:32 am
Read postPathu Thoon - Ten silent witnesses of Madurai's history In 2002, I chanced upon these ten massive stone pillars when a friend took me through a narrow lane in Madurai's inner city. Not many people from outside the old-town neighbourhoods knew of their existence in those days. What initially appeared...
Posted on 8 November 2026 | 11:44 pm
Read postA proposed independent villa at Madurai...
Posted on 2 March 2018 | 2:06 pm
Read postA conceptual freehand sketch for a proposed villa at Madurai.
Posted on 1 March 2018 | 1:07 pm
Read postMy proposal for an International Standard Club House...
Posted on 22 December 2017 | 11:26 pm
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