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...crazy Tassie doing dream park in Chennai!

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"Tasmania's splendour flows from its subtle mixture of colours and textures and from the play of light between earth and sky. There are grander landscapes and broader heavens, but no where have I seen such breathtaking contrasts arise so naturally from the dialogue between mountain and forest, clarity and cloud, sun and moon. A person can disappear in beauty like this." -  Arthur Rosenfeld Tasmania: Light at the End of the World Exhibition, 1991 Today is Joss Brooks' birthday. This crazy Tasmanian is 65 years old today, an age in which most Chennai men would retire to take life easy, read their morning newspaper, drink a slow beverage, give up their coffee, count their BP, develop fear of death and start to spiritual classes that they can't hear or comprehend any longer. However, Joss has been busy last few years developing a heaven for Chennai-vasis. He has been dreaming, creating and convincing us of the Adayar Poonga.  Chennai's normal idea of park is a...