A teakada(i) in Madras/Chennai (and in Tamil Nadu) is (was) a place where people get together not just for a hot cup of tea/coffee, but for a chat on the latest happenings. It could be anything, about Politics (mostly), Movies, the City, State (yeah, Tamil Nadu) and beyond. Be it 5 AM or 11 PM you could always find folks hanging around these teakada(is).
The teakada(is) typically had/have wooden benches laid out in the streets where a free range of newspapers and magazine lay around, inviting patrons to while away their time, while they sip away the brew (mostly ’single china’ tea).
teakada.com is an attempt to recreate such a meeting point, online. Blogs here are primarily about Madras, Tamil Nadu, Tamil Movies, Tamil Politics…