Ennore: Chennai's Paradise turned Hell
North Chennai Thermal Power Plant, Ennore When the Britishers came to settle in the Pulicat Lagoon around 1620 , t he Dutch had already established themselves in Pazhaverkadhu (Pulicat) village along with a port, which was completed in 1613. There was a constant fight between the Dutch and the British for the docking rights. The British grew tired of the Dutch and decided to move further south. This forced Francis Day and Andrew Cogan, to acquire a “strip of sandy land” from Damarla Venkatadri Nayak, the Vijayanagar Empire’s “Governor” of the coast from Pulicat to SanThome. Who knew then, that this piece of land bought for building a temporary trading post, would go on to become the cultural and economic hub of South India. Estuary, where Kosasthalaiyar meets Bay of Bengal Ennore Creek is located between Pulicat Lake in the north and the Manali marshland in the south. Over the years Ennore has become the hub of a range of industrial projects, ma...