Murals in Chennai

In Chennai, I recently came across a series of wonderfully rendered panoramic murals being painted while passing Anna Salai in the Nandanam area. Later, I read that these are part of an effort to replace unseemly posters (Chennai walls are full of about politicians, movies and computer classes) with artistic murals, with scenes from all around Tamil Nadu by different artists. One mural portraying the stone temple in Mamallapuram even has a meta component to it – the wall painting even shows a couple of foreign tourists shown admiring the temple.

Apparently, there will be more such murals added, especially with a ban on posters coming up soon. Personally, I feel that a visit to these murals is much better than some of the other stops on Chennai’s hop-on-hop-off sightseeing service.

Kudos to the Chennai Corporation for this effort to beautify the city.