AchAri in Chennai

[deponti]

In the heart of

Mylapore

past

Luz

connecting North Mada (mAdA) Street and

Katcheri Road is a small street...lane...called "Maddala )Narayanan Street" (maddaLa nArAyaNan

Comments

[usha123]

Oh, yes, I remember that..whenever there was a wedding in the family, the jeweller would come home with the standard casing for the bendole (as the traditional design was called). The diamonds would then be set in it while he worked on it in the verandah of our home in Bangalore :-)

[deponti]

Oh, I haven't heard of "bendole"..can I come and see it once?

[usha123]

You know it..it is the Kannada name for the traditional 7 stone earring design that can be set with pearls or diamonds or rubies, etc..then you qualify it with muttina bendole, vajrada bendole, etc.

[usha123]

and forgot to add, welcome any time :-)

[inspirethoughts]

How very interesting personality you have shared here! Reminds me of our family jeweler but he has a bigger shop than this. Now that I am in India I will take pics of him and post when i visit him next week.