Updated On: 09 April, 2015 08:40 AM IST | | Tulsi Badrinath
<p>Chennai was picked as one of the hottest destinations of 2015 by the BBC and Lonely Planet. We invited a city-born author and expert to give our readers an exclusive tour of a few delightful treasures from Chennai that is Madras</p>

Kapaleeshwarar temple
For long considered as ‘not-happening’ when compared to Delhi or Mumbai, Chennai has stolen a march on them and made it to the Lonely Planet and BBC Travel lists of their hottest destinations for 2015. It is time, perhaps, to head to Chennai and absorb its culture and atmosphere.