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Inspite of being healthy, fit & ready for earning a living, i’m sad on seeing such people resorting to taking alms in the disguise of helplessness. My earlier post is still fresh in my memory on the enterprise certain people display to avoid resorting to taking alms/ begging on streets.

As a policy i don’t offer alms, and i’m getting into the habit of finding the right vehicle to help the under priviliged which rehabilitates them to teach them fishing and not buying them fish.

Retail as an industry is currently on the boom in most parts of the India. But Chennai, once boasted as the retail capital of India in the days of Foodworlds, Spencers, Viveks etc. had lost sheen in between and now seems to be bouncing back with vigour. Home grown brands like Subhiksha’s, Univercell, NaiHaa etc. are establishing Pan Indian presence.

A scene at the evergreen retail hub in Chennai, the Pondy Bazaar in T Nagar.

Yummy fruits, what you see here are apples, sweet limes, oranges & mangoes.

Love to have a salad of fruits every morning, this has become an habit thanks to my sister.

The sign claiming that they can cure Alcohol Addiction through herbal medicines under Siddha Medical Sciences. The addiction among the economically weaker sections are always high and therapies to make them come out of these addictions are to be welcomed.

Though i’m not sure about this specific claim, here.

Chess, the game of 64 squares and its battles are spread across the world and not just chennai.

Been following Susan Polgar’s chess weblog for sometime now, though i’m not a player, but i love following the game. (Don’t ask me how , probably by hailing from the same city where the world champ also comes from could be the reason)

Lovely snacks, hunger busters and healthier food are these cucumbers. (Raw mangoes can’t be healthier mostly). Would rather prefer to snack these while wandering, window shopping, out-with-family times than the potato wafers, peanuts etc.

I like the way these guys have arranged the sliced cucumbers.

A disply of Hari Narayanan’s picture at Infocus 2008, a photo exhibition by Students of Ambitions4.

Last in the series and it coincides with Shantaram’s pick of y’day too.

One more display of the students work at Infocus 2008, a photo exhibition by Ambitions4 students.

A cropped picture of one of the students (Jyotsana Reddy) display at the Infocus 2008, the photography exhibition by Ambitions4 students.

Continuing the pictures of Infocus 2008 by the students of Ambitions4.

Infocus 2008, a photography event just concluded in Chennai last 6th July’08. The exhibits were done by the photography students of the institute Ambitions4, the pro-centre of Canon.

Special mention among the photo artiste’s are Jyotsana Reddy, Hari Narayanan, Ramya priyadarshini, E Pughazhendi & C Vikram.

(the coming few days will upload some more pictures from the event)

Some of you might recall my earlier post on the Autorickshaws (Auto’s in short) in Chennai. I had the opportunity to catch a live scene of a passenger and the driver haggling over the price before she boards.

Beware and keep your management techniques ready for an hard negotiationwhen hiring these guys in Chennai aka Madras.

Loved the hand expression of the buyer at the roadside Vests / Briefs stall and i guess he’s explaining the size of the inner garment he needs

These lovely garlands ready at pondy bazaar, T nagar for any event …. could be a marriage, reception, public meetings, political meetings, funerals etc …..

You can be rest assured you’ll get a ready made garland at this place at any time of the day.

This reminds me of the lovely tamil saying “பூவோடு சேர்ந்து நாரும் மனம் பெரும் ” (aka ” the straw gets the fragrance of the flower”)

Nowadays marriages are package deals like any other shopping experience/ events you do. Both the Groom & Bride’s side get the marriage hall, then negotiate with a Marriage contractor (according to their Religion / Caste / Faith) to take up the overall responsibility of the marriage which includes the welcome desk to stage decoration to dinner / lunch to music programme to other religious requirements. Hence the bride’s and Groom’s side attends the marriage as a programme by arriving earlier than the guests (but not the Groom & Bride, who are fashionably late for their receptions, attending to their heavy make-up’s).

Seen here the festoons, lighting being checked last minute at the marriage hall just before a wedding reception.