Arumbakkam (Tamil: அரும்பாக்கம்) is primarily a residential locality in Chennai.

Notable landmarks in Arumbakkam are D G Vaishnav College, Speed Medical Centre & Hospitals, Daniel Thomas School, Kola Perumal School,sri Panchali Amman Temple,sivan temple and the Ford Showroom. The Chennai Bottling Company (popularly known as the Gold Spot Company) was located here, and has now been converted into a car dealership. This area is surrounded by main localities like Koyambedu, Aminjikarai and Anna Nagar. Other important locations are the Perumal temple (it was built 500 years ago) and the Vinayagar temple; the area also is known for its serenity.

More recently the TNPCB (Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board) has been located here. A beautiful park is also there opposite to CMBT. The Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has started the its construction with the pile foundation work in Arumbakkam opposite SAF Games Village. This was inaugurated by the 'Ex. Deputy Chief Minister Mr. M.K. Stalin'. The 'Tamil Nadu Election Commission' is also opened it brand new head office,state election commission of India(தமிழ்நாடு தலைமை தேர்தல் ஆணையம்) in Arumbakkam opposite to CMBT. The area is relatively rich in ground water and the local people say that this area was a mango cultivated area till about 1960. This area falls under the Central Chennai constituency. It is a low lying area and used to get water logged frequently till late 1990s after which improvements in the storm water drainage system has considerably reduced water logging.

Jawaharlal Nehru (IPA: [dʒəʋaːɦərˈlaːl ˈneːɦru] ( listen), Hindi: जवाहरलाल नेहरू;‎ 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964), often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian lawyer, politician and statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India (1947–64) and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the 1930s and ’40s. Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister, and re-elected when the Congress Party won India's first general election in 1951 and 1952. Nehru contributed to the establishment of a parliamentary democracy in India and was one of the founders of the international Non-Aligned Movement.

The son of moderate nationalist leader and Congressman Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru became a leader of the left wing of the Congress when fairly young. Rising to become Congress President under the mentorship of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Nehru was a charismatic leader, advocating complete independence for India from the British Empire. Throughout his life, Nehru advocated Democratic Socialism/Fabian Socialism and a strong public sector as the means by which economic development could be pursued by poorer nations. He was the father of Indira Gandhi and the maternal grandfather of Rajiv Gandhi, who would later serve as the third and sixth Prime Ministers of India respectively.