Watch: The Art Deco story behind The Hindu’s iconic Chennai building
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Sweeping canopies, chrome grills, fluted columns — this isn’t a theatre, it’s a newspaper office. Welcome to Kasturi Buildings, home of The Hindu since 1939. We trace how Art Deco travelled from Paris to Bombay’s Marine Drive, then south to Madras — where architect H.F. Fellows-Prynne built a space meant to carry “a soft charm and a quiet dignity.”
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