When I came across that word in the many pages of the 1913 book “ Vestiges of Old Madras 1640-1800 Volume 1 ” by Henry Davison Love, I was confused. How can there be Nari (Fox) in Madras? That too close to the shore on a sand dune! The location where the present St.George Fort stands was known as Narimedu (High Ground of Fox or the Dune of the Fox) and was given to the British East India Company by the Naik King Damarla Venkatadri in the year 1639. Love writes: “ We may conclude, then, that the boundary of Madras depicted in the map of 1733 coincided with that of the Naik ’ s grant, save that the former included an undefined area called “ Narimedo ” , which was added in 1645, or earlier. The boundary passed through a point on the coast 300 yards north of the river outlet, and travelled across the Island to the cut uniting the two rivers. It then followed the Elambore River for a distance of 1000 yards, curved inland, but subsequently met the r...
A year 2020 research study (Athira and Agilan 2020 ) on the impact of climate change on rainfall over Chennai, predicted the intensity and the frequency of extreme rainfall over the city is likely to increase under RCP 4.5 (representative concentration pathways) and RCP 8.5 scenarios. When the efforts to curb emissions are medium, that is, with an increasing tendency to use renewable energy sources and a mix of transport methods (internal combustion engines, electric vehicles, bicycles), the scenario of RCP 4.5 sets in. Similarly, RCP 2.6 means high efforts to curb emissions, complete dependence on renewable energy sources/emission capture methods and a mass tendency to use bicycles and public transport. RCP 8.5 means the grim scenario of low efforts to curb emissions. It is predicted that an RCP 2.6 scenario would increase the global temperature by 1.0 degree celcius , the sea level by 0.4 meters, and cause very small increase in extreme weather conditions by 2081-2100 (re...