Madras Day: Where Chennai falls in love

Chennai is full of quiet corners made for two. Between the city’s creeks, chugging trains, cadets and coastlines, The Hindu Weekend tells you about four date spots for four different moods. As the city turns 387, we celebrate these haunts with four memories. Loving, though, solely involves your labour.

Head to St Thomas Mount, home to military heritage, an Anglo-Indian legacy, and resident ghosts. But an air of romance lingers in its tree-lined avenues dotted with colonial bungalows.

Read about a 2012 SMS-era confession at Besant Nagar beach that kicks off this love letter to Chennai’s coastline. From Pazhaverkadu’s quiet shores to Thiruvanmiyur’s moonlit stretches, here’s where the city’s lovers go to fall in, and out of, love (soan papdi, shawarma, and sundal included).

For thousands of hopeless romantics, the railway station is a lovers’ haunt that gradually becomes something more, an otherworld where everyone is in a hurry but you, and yours.

Finally, take a walk through a hidden park and wooded walkway by the Adyar River. It is perfect for a stroll and conversations, making it a quiet, and sweet date spot in Chennai.