Chennai – Slice of Life 4
Govindarajan, 54, Advocate:
I came to Chennai for my higher studies in Law. Although I stayed at my relative’s house, I hardly knew anyone in the city back then. Coming from a lazy small-town life, Chennai’s hustle and bustle was both intimidating and fascinating at the same time. With the meagre amounts that my father could afford to send from the village, I sustained myself until I finished my course. Later, I started my practice and slowly built up my reputation and income. Today, I can say I am in a comfortable position financially and socially also, I have made a lot of friends. Looking back, I can say it was a good decision to come to Chennai for the profession I was interested in.
There are some ppl that like chennai, there are some people that love chennai and then there are some people that lick Chennai. This is really adolescent, i Cant help but think that you are making up these characters…
Hey Spineless Anon :-), these are my friends and relatives so far whom I have covered (except the auto guy who is a regular in any case). Would it help if you had to know their addresses, contact numbers and horoscope?
whatever man… but your posts have this constantly repeated glorified stuff abt chennai. all am saying is – I wish you put in some realism abt the city rather than just go on and on and on and on and on abt how great it is and how much u want to make a temple of Chennai mata and pray all day to her like some PMK/DMK taperecorder. Chennai isnt utopia and does have many shortcomings in front of other places.
yea, when thennavan isn’t proudly talking about tamiZh and how you need to know tamiZh to live in chenNAI he’s off glorifying the city. yes the city means a lot to me, i grew up there and miss it whenever i’m away but still to only look at one side is madness. i think there was a pretty stupid discussion (on sify probably, not too sure) a few months back on the ‘best city’ in india. predictably everyone was out to defend theirs and there was a lot of mudslinging. our city is far from perfect; wake up and smell the stench we’re in (and its not just the cooum!)
wow kokki! you just hit it off with me!!! hey, come one let’s be realistic, i have lived in chennai, delhi, gurgaon and now bombay. every place has its good and the bad.
i can say bombay is filth (the indian bombay), the old one is so beautiful…a lot of bombay brings a multitude of memories of my own chennai lying in complete disregard and disrespect.
is it all we can do to our cities and homes???