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Feb 11, 2021 · Kannagi Nagar is one of Chennai’s earliest and largest resettlement colonies. Following the 2004 tsunami, fishermen who were living along the coast in different parts of the city were...
Mar 15, 2021 · “In Kannagi Nagar, 62% of women have faced sexual violence, 53% are forced into child marriage, 71% experience child abuse and 79% face sexual harassment,” said VHS director Dr Vijayaraman.
Mar 15, 2020 · A “resettled” area in Chennai, Kannagi Nagar is today a diverse mix of over 80,000 marginalised residents. The first wave hit in 2000, where people from slums across Chennai were moved here, and then in 2010 when Tsunami hit families and victims were packed off here.
Feb 19, 2020 · Chennai's Kannagi Nagar, one of the largest built resettlement sites in India, housing over 80,000 people, has lately transformed into the city's first art district through the efforts of St+art India Foundation.
Apr 21, 2022 · Chennai's first art district in Kannagi Nagar has provided a facelift to the area. But the issues faced by the residents run deeper. Large murals have been painted on the walls of Kannagi Nagar in three editions of the art district project.
Feb 17, 2020 · St+art India makes a Chennai debut by transforming Kannagi Nagar, home to 80,000 people, into a public art destination
Mar 29, 2022 · Updated on : 29 Mar 2022, 1:51 am. 1 min read. CHENNAI: The third edition of the Kannagi Nagar art district project in Sholinganallur was inaugurated on Monday. As part of it, walls of the...
Feb 14, 2020 · Faded colour, paan stains sprayed all over and peeling walls – this was how the slum board tenements of Chennai’s Kannagi Nagar looked like until the area was chosen for city’s first international street art festival.
Mar 9, 2020 · Kannagi Nagar is now a canvas for artists from India and abroad. How is the community welcoming this initiative by St+art India?
Mar 17, 2022 · Kannagi Nagar and its people are now used to the drill. In 2019, before the pandemic struck, St+art India saw the identical apartment buildings as empty canvases. With People and Environment as...
