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Mylapore's myriad stories of its diversity

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  Mylapore's myriad stories of its diversity    From the 1960's Mylapore in Madras has traversed a long way in all fronts and is slowly becoming unrecognizable. I recognized that recently when I went on a short trip from Teynampet to Santhome. In the past, say 1960s, there were no Google maps.   Google maps came into existence in New Orleans only in 2005 but it wasn’t until as early as 2009 when Google maps started harnessing this information to deliver real-time traffic information and even now one can say it’s not really accurate in some areas.   The Google map shown was pretty clear and straightforward for me, one that i was used to navigating with.   But hold on. The share cab diverted and darted across routes that day (in Feb 2024) and eventually reached the destinations where people seated inside looked uncomfortably at one another and hoped they were going right.   They were straining their necks to see if they could get a hold of which r...