Chennai Times

read the story of the small fishing village near chennai in GoodnewsIndia . The perseverance, conviction and strength of the ordinary people of this village and their fight against a company with a face that perhaps represents every thing we have come to recognise as inevitable evil consequences of the current system - corruption, muscle power, intimidation, high money and politics. as we enter a new year, this story of ordinary people gives much hope, strength. to hold your head high and feel proud about!!!

This was a very ironic photo in the Hindu some days ago, but as I accidentally stumbled on another blog that had already taken note of the irony of the picture, I rest with my link to this chennai based blog .

It is sad that so many have died in the process of waiting to collect their relief dues couple of days back. The media as insensitive as ever has gone over board to describe the event in all gory details and the photos of the suffering have left many in the city depressed. The families deserve everyone's sympathy and every person responsible who could have averted this disaster needs to be punished (not merely suspended or transferred, the usual government ways of dealing with disaster). But more important is the question of the civic responsibilities that each one of our city'zens' should ask themselves - do we know how to follow any rules in this city? the Q for instance in every urban centre. In Chennai the Q is non-existent. Recently the Sathyam Cinema announced that the Q is dead for booking tickets in their cinema hall. But, the Q in chennai is never born. In bus stands, in ration shops, in post offices, banks, supermarkets, in purchasing tickets, in railway stations...

Concrete Road Dividers are everywhere these days in Chennai. These are meant to protect unruly and reckless four-wheeler drivers whose population is on the rise in Chennai in the last couple of years. These are imposing looking triangular mass of concrete that stands in the middle of the road in smaller roads or in larger roads a wall of heavy rocks that makes the other side of the road look like some form of fortress. In the smaller roads (the picture shown here was shot near Perambur railway station some time ago, I am not sure about the current situation, for a long period of time the half-completed concrete structure with iron rods jutting out stood out in the middle of the road in a busy road where people cross in a hurry for catching trains and buses), the situation leads to chaotic scenarios. It is not uncommon to see many elders having to ascend these mini-hills to reach the other side; and women suffer the humiliation of having to lift their dresses (particularly if they were...

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