Habibullah Road is in the T. Nagar neighborhood of Chennai. Chad grew up on Habibullah Rd when it was a quiet, residential area. In recent decades it's been transformed into a crowded commercial area. We paid a visit to the Sivasailam family compound. It's shrunk in the past few years as family members in the US have sold their parcels of property. However, Chad's brother still lives there.
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| "Does this mean we can charge rent?" |
Adjacent to the family house and intersecting Habibullah Rd. is Sivasailam St. For me, this was the most memorable part of the trip. Unless you're named Main, University, or First, it's rare to share your name with a street and even rarer for it to be named after an ancestor. That's why I thought it was important for Vikram and Nikhil to be photographed next to the street sign. Naturally, with a van load of Sivasailams, everyone had to be photographed with the sign.
While we were entertaining ourselves by posing with the sign, a security guard emerged from a building at the intersection. He was curious as to why anyone would want a picture next to a street sign. So Mani explained that these were Sivasailams. I don't think the guard was impressed.
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| If so, then J. Money gets a cut. |
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| The original street sign, painted on the wall. |
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| Valli, Geetha, Jay, Chad. |
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