West Mambalam
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West Mambalam (பைழய மாம்பலம் or ேமலமாம்பலம் in Tamil) is a prime residential location in Chennai city next to commercial shopping area, T.Nagar-located west of Anna Salai/Mount Road. Several years ago, it was called Maha Bilwa Puram, since there were lots of Vilwa trees here. It has down the line taken the name, West Mambalam. This is a nice,secured and best residential area to live in chennai.
History: Mambalam is divided into the East and the West by the railway line passing through. East Mambalam, is better known as Thyagaraya Nagar, most frequently referred to as T. Nagar. The western side of the railway line is the Old Mambalam or simply West Mambalam. Noted for the Sankara Mutt, Shiva Temple and the Kodhanda Ramaswamy Temple. This was the hub of West Mambalam, until in the past 10-15 years with the development of Aryagowder Road as the business center.
Past: In the past, West Mambalam was occupied mostly by Brahmin's and considered once to be the area of forward caste, now people of all caste come and settle here.
Shopping:
Shopping is the best here. You can find everything you need and best for Jewellery and clothing shopping in T.Nagar.
Hotels:
It has wide range of eateries where people storm up to have their piece of share .The most popular one's are 1) Venkaramana Poli stall ( one of the oldest ) 2) Venkateshwara Poli Stall 3) Moms soup (original trend setter one Near city stationeries ) 4) Mamis soup . Coming to hotels it has many noticeable hotels which provide hygienic food 1) Data udipi hotel ( near subway ) 2) Bhakya hotel ( near railway station ). For bachelors they can find their food at reasonable rates 3) Gnanambiga mess 4) Tanjore mess
Education:
It houses many schools which produce excellent results 1) SBSM Jain School, 2) Ahobila Mutt Oriental School 3) JGHV school 4) Sitaram vidhyalaya 5) Anjugam 6) little oxford ( all the above mentioned are state board ) 7) Sri Narayana Mission Sr Sec School (Co-ed CBSE) 8) SB Motha School (Girls CBSE) and 9) SRM Nightingale.You can also find students busy running to tuition.To mention a few masters in the vicinity are T.M. Soundarajan (Maths -aho princi ) and Rasarasan (Physics ) Swaminathan (Chemistry ) to name a few .
Transportation West Mambalam contains a railway station(most busiest station after central and tambaram ) , providing access to Chennai Central and tambaram . Many buses travel through West Mambalam. They have to goto tnagar for bus terminus ( one can go by 11g 11h and get down at panagal park and walk to bus terminus in 15 minutes ) Arya Gowda Road and Thambiah Reddy Road both host many shops.
Groceries: This area contains a large vegetable market.
Devotion:
There are many historical temples which are more than 100 years old and ayodhya mandapam which is said to be the place of vocalist offers place for many cultural events and many more for those who find to be religious. Temples 1.Sathya Narayana Kovil,2.Kasi Viswanathar Koil3.muragashramam4.Kali bari temple are few remarkable landmarks in West Mambalam.
The only disadvantage of this area is the frequent traffic jams at duraiswamy subway.It takes average of 10 - 20 mins to cross the subway which will be only 200 - 300 m
Eminent Personalities in West Mambalam.
T. N. Seshagopalan,
Pyramid Natarajan,
Dr(Major)R S Rengan , General and Laparoscopic Surgeon
Dr. N.V. Vasudevachariar (Correspondent- Ahobila Mutt Oriental School)
N.Srinivasa Chariar M.A,L.T,Dip in GEO .,(Ex-President Sri Ramakrishna Mission ,T.Nagar)
President of Mambalam Sanskrit Sabha.
V Pandurangan, President Sri Ram Samaj
Roads:
60% of the roads in West Mambalam are badly laid.Since the increased road commutement no necessary actions has been taken to re lay the affected roads.This is one of the biggest problems in West Mambalam.
