Summary:
While looking for souvenirs during a visit to Mamallapuram last year, he bought some postcards with old black-and-white photos of the historic site. “Picture postcards are tangible accounts of people’s travels and can be a meaningful business of city branding,” he says. “Sadly, we all are stuck to our keyboards and have largely abandoned writing,” rues Nicholas Francis, the city’s sought after human resource mentor and a self-published author. He has already published a desktop calendar in the beginning of the year that contain 12 shots of the city and is titled Marvellous Madurai. “Occasionally, we come across a few old prints of Pudhumandapam and other landmarks but they are not sharp visual images,” he feels..