Friday, October 15, 2010

hai guys

This october day in chennai ,seems like may. The city's hot but only in the literal sense. One by one madras is turning to chennai and it is slowing losing out all that has been once its land marks. I cant but feel terribly down and out when I see the slow destruction of my favourite Madras in the name of development. The city now looks like Venice on Tar where we have the same number of bridges but Tar roads in place of rivers ..hope Chennai retains at least some part of Madras--just for us old timers

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  1. rajendrakumarkOctober 16, 2010 at 1:05 AM

    Hi, actually chennai and Madras were different places. The british acquired chennapatnam from Chennai nayak and madraspatnam was just north side of chennapatnam later acquired by briton some 50 years back. The two merged into one. The britain called the merged one as madraspatnam and indians as chennapatnam. It seems you want to be an English man rather Indian. The cities evolve you cannot think of old rama in Ayodhi like. No personal feelings. we just going to occupy this land for some more years may be 50 years too long. why think of old casinos just think of new cannibals. The earth how many times would have changed its colonial. Even Chennai may be called chen hai soon. You use only chinese products. Why not their name and languages??? Change in nature permanent. We cannot change it.

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  2. UnknownOctober 17, 2010 at 9:19 AM

    Here he goes again...whats this? a history class..i am not interested in who bought what from whom..whether it was purchased from chennai nayakkar or velu nayakkar i dont care..all i am saying is that Madras of my times was a far more beautiful place than the chennai of today which is a now a very good example of all things a city should not be..dont you earn for the days when we could walk down any road(with the exception of tnagar)without being mowed by all and sundry..when we could go out and have a fun ride without having to worry about being knocked down by speeding innovas et all.. and all this in the name of what..development..i dont need it man..maybe i have not evolved but i like it this way..as you said nothing personal but only genuine anguish at seeing what the place i loved has turned into

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