Talk:Chennai

Please add a skyline image

please add a skyline image of the city. It creates a better impression for the city. I suggest to add this- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chennai_Skyline_Anna_Salai.jpg ~2025-43112-14 (talk) 05:12, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 March 2026

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Subject: Request to include historical context regarding the Telugu origins of the name/grant Proposed Change: Add a sentence to the "Etymology" or "History" section noting that the land grant for Fort St. George was provided by Telugu rulers, and the name "Chennapatnam" was chosen in honor of Chennappa Nayaka, a Telugu Chieftain. Suggested Text: "The name Chennai is of Telugu origin; it was derived from the name of Chennappa Nayaka, father of Damarla Venkatapathy Nayaka, a Telugu ruler who served as a general under the Vijayanagara Emperor Peda Venkata Raya and granted the land to the British East India Company in 1639." Supporting References (Examples to provide): Vestiges of Old Madras by Henry Davison Love. The Madras Tercentenary Commemoration Volume. Records of the East India Company regarding the 1639 grant from the Damarla brothers. Reasoning: The current lead/etymology section focuses heavily on the modern Tamil identity, but the historical legal origin of the settlement (Chennapatnam) is documented in colonial and Vijayanagara records as being named after the father of the Telugu Nayakas who controlled the region at the time. This adds necessary historical depth and neutrality.

~2026-15655-10 (talk) 16:15, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

 Not done. Wikipedia is written by human beings. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 23:38, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Attached map

half of the Chennai Airport is in Chennai but not the other half? Someone please correct the map according to GCC definition Frdsah (talk) 18:01, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Issues with lead

I was reading Larry Sanger's theses out of curiosity, and while I strongly disagree with almost everything else he says, what he says about about this article's lead does seem reasonable. There seems to be a bit too much dubious emphasis on rankings.

Known as the gateway to South India, Chennai is amongst the most-visited Indian cities by international tourists and was ranked 36th among the most-visited cities in the world in 2019 by Euromonitor. Ranked as a beta-level city in the Global Cities Index, it was ranked as the second-safest city in India by National Crime Records Bureau in 2023.

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It was the only South Asian city to be ranked among National Geographic's "Top 10 food cities" in 2015 and ranked ninth on Lonely Planet's best cosmopolitan cities in the world.

These really don't say much, especially those last two. I don't find National Geographic and Lonely Planet to be particularly important sources on the matter that their rankings deserve to be in the lead. I'll go ahead and get rid of those two myself at least. Feel free to revert.

And from reading the lead I have learned not much about Chennai's culture and local population, even though it has been included in the body. I don't feel experienced enough to incorporate that content in the lead do those edits myself, is there anyone else that could do it? Wreaderick (talk) 11:33, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Update GDP

The page of chennai has got to be the most outdated out of all the major cities of India. Partly because any updates get reverted. Update GDP Frdsah (talk) 03:56, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Trying to prevent data decay

adding mayor and commisioner information can cause data decay. Which may be restricted to Greater Chennai Corporation Wiki page Xmpr15 (talk) 09:07, 23 June 2026 (UTC)