Nageswara Rao Park, Mylapore

Nageswara Rao Park covers 4 acres at Luz Corner in Mylapore, Chennai, and is a favourite spot for local morning walkers. It began as a pond called Arathakuttai, which its owners gave to the Corporation for a park; more land was donated in 1940, and Chief Minister P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja opened it on 20 October that year. It is named after Nageswara Rao Pantulu, founder of the neighbouring Amrutanjan factory, who persuaded residents to develop the drying pond. The Corporation redeveloped it in 1996, and Sundaram Finance now maintains it.

The park has a walking track, a separate children's play area and a badminton court, and on weekends all through the year it hosts music kutcheris and civic forums. Its trees include Cassia fistula, copper pod, neem, pungam, palms, peepal and Thespesia, along with medicinal and ornamental plants, and a composting yard at the back turns its garden waste into compost.