To Opposite the Kapaleeswarar Temple tank at Mylapore in Chennai, stands an apartment named ‘Vishwakamal’.
The place of an epoch-making meeting that led to the formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885.
Soon after the annual convention of the Theosophical Society at Adyar in December 1884, 17 men from different parts of the country met at this house.
Allan Octavian Hume, the ‘Father of the Congress’, was not among them.
But some claims are there as “The Indian National Congress organised here December 1884”.
In March 1885, it was decided to hold a meeting of representatives from all parts of India at the then coming Christmas without any reference to the 1884 meeting in Madras.