History Quote by Manu Joseph

“There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the city, sometimes…

— Jeanette Winterson

I did 'Madras' because of the script, which was compelling.

— Catherine Tresa

“Chennai is a great city, and if they had great weather it could be paradise, but it is not. Everything is top volume,be it…

— Yuvraj Singh

“Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.”

— Tahir Shah

“It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas…

— Don DeLillo

It is easier to make a film but difficult to make it on your own terms. In that sense 'Madras Cafe' was a very…

— Shoojit Sircar

“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces.…

— Rasmenia Massoud

“The city had been built by people from innumerable elsewheres. It was a chaos of cultures ordered only by its long streets. It belonged…

— André Alexis

“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated.”

— Meg Wolitzer

If I had used real names, I don't think 'Madras Cafe' would have ever seen the light of day because it was a political…

— Shoojit Sircar

“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.”

— Epictetus

Chennai has changed a lot. I knew Adyar as a village which has now become the heart of the metropolis. But my heart still…

— Sudha Kongara