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Date uploaded in London – 30 JUNE 2024
Contact – swami_48@yahoo.com
Pictures are taken from various sources for spreading knowledge.
this is a non- commercial blog. Thanks for your great pictures.
tamilandvedas.com, swamiindology.blogspot.com
https://www.pustaka.co.in/home/author/london-swaminathan
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I took some pictures of the posters displaayed for sale in the old shop on 17-5-2024
Welcome to London- Part 5
“Set in London’s West End, Covent Garden is a vibrant, must-see destination for anyone who enjoys shopping, theatre, restaurants, bars, history and culture. Things to see in and around Covent Garden include the London Transport Museum, the Royal Opera House, Somerset House and Covent Garden Market”
Where is it?
Covent Garden tube station (Underground ) is in Piccadilly Line.
One can walk from Holborn, Charing Cross, Leicester Square Tube stations within ten minutes.
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Covent Garden in London is an old style market place where you find gem stones, fashion jewellery, clothes, artifacts, hand made bags, novel electronic clocks, gift items etc. There are restaurants , street food and musicians and jugglers to watch. Nothing is expensive.
It is similar to Moore Market in Chennai (which was burnt down in a fire accident.)
I cant forget Covent Garden because I acted in Pygmalion of Bernard Shaw with famous Tamil Actress Radhika. We invited her to London on behalf of BBC Tamilosai to act in POOKKAARI (flower vendor, adapted in tamil by Shankar Anna of BBC Tamil Service. He gave me the main role. For the photo shoot of Radio Drama, BBC took us to Covent Garden. It was an unforgettable experience.
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Story of Pygmalion
Pygmalion was a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1913. It deals with themes of social class, stereotypes, and appearances vs. reality. It tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a lower-class girl who sells flowers, and an upper class linguist named Henry Higgins.
Shaw took his title from the ancient Greek legend of the famous sculptor named Pygmalion who could find nothing good in women, and, as a result, he resolved to live out his life unmarried. However, he carved a statue out of ivory that was so beautiful and so perfect that he fell in love with his own creation.
The moral of Pygmalion is that life is too realistic to believe in the fabrication of idealism. For instance, Eliza has been transformed into a duchess yet she is aware that she would be no more to Higgins than a pair of slippers.
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On the days I felt sleepy during summer lunch time, I used to take a bus from Bush House of BBC World Service and go to Covent Garden to watch the jugglers there. That was 30 years ago.
On 17th May, 2024 I took my brother and his wife to the Covent Garden. They visited London for the first time. It was not changed much. It looked almost same, though I visited it after two decades. We watched a street music player. I was interested in a shop where they were selling old pollsters with golden sayings. (Please see the pictures I took)
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Google says
A shopping and entertainment hub in London’s West End, Covent Garden centres on the elegant, car-free Piazza, home to fashion stores, craft stalls at the Apple Market, and the Royal Opera House. Street entertainers perform by 17th-century St. Paul’s Church, and the London Transport Museum houses vintage vehicles. Upscale restaurants serve European cuisines, and nearby theatres draw crowds for plays and musicals. ― Google
Posters shop
Street Musician
–subham—
Tags- Welcome to London 5, Don’t miss Covent Garden, Pygmalion, Pookkaari, BBC Tamil Service, Shankar anna
















