Water, water, nowhere

If there is one precious thing in Chennai, thats Water. And that does test your patience to a very great extent.

You enter home after dark exhausted fighting with your Project Manager. Open the tap to take a fresh bath to get away from the humid and sultry weather for a while.

It drips drops and ... stops.

Know what? It happened to me today. The worst thing about me is that I dont save water even after facing the same problem for a year. It sucks when you save water for more than a day, coz' it becomes soft and kinda sticky which I hate.

Anyways, simply put, there is no solution to it. Ideas overflow, but not water. Ideas are ample: desalinating the sea water to nationalizing rivers, getting water from veeranam etc etc. No matter which political party comes, there wont be a good solution. After all there is no point blaming the politicians alone, though they have a significant part.

Think about the people. Once upon a time - actually not so long ago - there used to be a beautiful river called Cooum. Now the name translates to garbage.

And no body is bothered. Everyone is so accustomed to it. Who said necessity breeds invention? Necessity actually seems to breed adaptability.

Chennai Live

I am a Chennaiite or Chennaivasi for more than an year now and the experience has been interesting, to say the least. Why not share it with the world! Also this part of the world, though pretty advanced is not web enabled fully. You can't know the timings of a concert in Naradha gana sabha or the weather prediction for the next couple of days online. And there are some subtle things from directions to interesting info about Chennai which one can get only by talking to a chennaiite.

I think thats pretty unfortunate.

This site is where I am planning to share my experiences in chennai, life here and you could probably get some HOW-TOs like how to haggle with a auto driver to what to expect when you stop on an about-to-become-red signal. But you are expected not to expect telephone directory like stuff, like where is Anna square or how far Postal colony is from ashok nagar etc (its on the same road 2 mins away and one of my friends used to claim Rs. 60 as travel allowance from his company for the 0.001 km distance)

So here we go. Welcome to the world of Chennai.