Recently, my American nephew asked if we could visit Gemini Studios, the next time we both find ourselves in the old hometown Madras, present-day Chennai. I tell the American teenager the studio had stopped making

Sitting at my desk in Boston, in MIT where I edited strands of DNA for the Human Genome Project, I’d read S. Muthiah’s Madras Miscellany during breaks. I loved this column in The Hindu because it dealt