I’ve been naive to think that people have ice creams only during the day time and mostly in the summer seasons. But realised my blooper (during our ver2 of 10th photowalk in Anna nagar tower park) when i saw people gobbling ice creams in the night time too and in any season.
Also have been curious [...]
Archive for August, 2008
31 Aug
Ice creams @ night
30 Aug
TamBrahms
TamBrahms are basically the brahmin community (iyers or iyengars) of Tamil Nadu. When you say TamBrahm in South of Vindhyas the following words come to my mind (and in no particular order) they are studious, prohiths or priests, wear veshti or dhoti, aspire to be in USA & software, again aspire to study @ the [...]
28 Aug
Catch’em young
This Chess training center seems to know their Target Group very well and clearly focused on age groups between 5 to 16. Also a catchy name of the Baku (Azerbaijan) born World champion, for their center focusing on the game in hand.
Seen at Triplicane.
My 2nd about the game of 64 squares.
27 Aug
Ward of evil
Warding of Bad eye / evil eye / Drishti or Nazar is done through various mediums and tools.
One such wall hanger to prevent envy of a good looking house by its neighbours / passers-by.
Will be sharing another concept of how an evil eye is warded off in the tomorrow’s picture.
26 Aug
Mobile Cleaning
The Hand drawn / pedaled vehicle used by the neighbourhood cleaning teams to carry all the waste and reach it to the Transfer Station of Chennai Corporation for the area. This gets to be moved further to the decomposing, burning, recycling or dumping yards of the city.
Seen at Saidapet.
25 Aug
Krishna Jayanthi, Gokulashtami or Janmashtami
For some it was on Saturday and for some it was on Sunday, the Krishna Jayanthi aka Gokulashtami aka Krishna Janmashtami, the birthday of Lord Krishna, the avatar of Lord Vishnu.
It falls on the 8th day (Ashtami) of the Second(dark) fortnight of the Month Shravana on the Hindu Lunar Calendar.
The Ladies draw some lovely patters [...]
24 Aug
Percussion
India and rhythm goes hand in hand. The harmony of percussion instruments is given more importance in the music of India. Seen here are Thavil and Udukkai to be played during festivals at a temple in TamilNadu.
23 Aug
Special Purpose Vehicle
I know India and Chennai thrives on IT & ITES companies, and there are quite a lot of Graduates and mostly their parents insistent on computer education, but this takes the cake for reaching computer education to the masses.
Saw an unique vehicle armed with messages on any course on Computers from Corel Draw to SAP [...]
22 Aug
Clean my livelihood
A Scene of a dhobi washing clothes in Adyaru (the river which is now become almost a sewer), couple of things crossing my mind.
a) The water is not proper for cleaning anything, but still they are forced to wash their/ others clothes here.
b) The livelihood for these BPL (fancy terminology by the govt. for Below [...]
21 Aug
Post independance day
Some of the Indian flag streamers, buntings still present at public places post the Independence day celebrations on 15th Aug. I just hope these are removed before it starts falling on the streets and we don’t bring disgrace to the National symbol.
Seen at the Saidapet – Jones road junction.
20 Aug
Flower & Happiness
I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. – Emma Goldman
Most of the women in this part of the country wear flowers and substitute these fresh ones in place of Gold jewellery. This is a sign of happiness, belief, beauty & symbolic for many of them.
Seen here is a lady wearing [...]
19 Aug
Green thumb
Green, ecology, environment all these words bring the pain in the heart reminding us that we are wasting away the nature and its resources. And not leaving these wonderful wealth behind for our future generations.
Conservation is key and frugal usage is the virus we need to spread across.
LETS JOIN TOGETHER TO PRESERVE THE NATURE.
(a scene [...]
18 Aug
Heritage replica on the shore…
“Arupadai Veedu” denotes the 6 main pilgrimage centres of Lord Muruga, comprising of Tiruchendur, Pazhamudir Solai in Madurai, Thiruparankundram near Madurai, Pazhani, Swamimalai, Thiruthani.
Beasant Nagar is boasting a temple complex with all these 6 holy abodes in one single location and done in similar architectural styles unique to them and closer to the beach & [...]
16 Aug
gone with the wind…
The tree breaks that takes all the force of the wind – African proverb.
Wind Chime : The noun WIND CHIME has 1 sense : a decorative arrangement of pieces of metal or glass or pottery that hang together loosely so the wind can cause them to tinkle.
Familiarity information: WIND CHIME used as a noun is [...]
15 Aug
The Emblem
The independance day of India is today.
The National Emblem as seen at the Central Institute of Technologies campus …..
The Four lions form the emblem of the country, India. This became the Countries emblem when it became a republic nation on 26th January, 1950.
14 Aug
The Morning cuppa !
The neighbourhood tea stalls cater to the men in the locality, especially for their cuppa’s of chai aka tea (though the customary kaapi aka coffee is also available) along with some munchies.
One such stall in chennai.
13 Aug
Best days of our lives …….
“When children are doing nothing, they are doing some mischief” A B Cheales.
Yes childhood was always fun, happiness, merry making and full of action. Enjoy the child in you.
12 Aug
All rise …..
This 14 storied, 177 feet tall building which houses the Regional office of LIC of India was the tallest building in India when it as inaugurated in 1959 and was the tallest building in Chennai for a very long time period. Check more about this tall building here.
This Chennai’s first highrise property was/is in the [...]
11 Aug
Trees not just for shade
The Banyan Tree form a part of the Chennai history with its presence. The Adyar Theosophical society has a 220 year old Banyan tree spreading across 40000 sq.ft. area and was revived after the storm in 1989 thanks to its 100 odd branches still holding ground. Also the Banyan Tree in St.Thomas Mount shrine is [...]
10 Aug
Fashion …. learning …..
NIFT, which is a premier institute in India from late 1980’s has its campus in Chennai near Taramani from 1995 onwards. They cater mainly to Apparel & Clothing, Knitwear and footwear industries and shaping the fashion in these fields.
Apart from Chennai, they have centres at New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Bhopal, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Kannur, Kolkatta, Patna, [...]
9 Aug
Love & Affection …..
At an age where its just love and affection carries people through their lives, one such moment of an elderly couple enjoying doing nothing and watching the world after their sunday morning prayers.
8 Aug
Olympics & Chennai or India
From today the olympics is starting and a true spirit of sportsmenship would be on display, everytime we expect an Indian to win a gold medal and we end up disappointed without any success. The media immediately trashes our sports people and it ends till the next games.
Instead we need to look at good infrastructure, [...]
7 Aug
In all directions …..
Yes … we’re all looking for them in different directions, but they are all here at one place.
6 Aug
Which way? its urgent ….
Choose between the “Public Convenience” & the “Toilet” at the commercial complex near Five rathas, Mahabalipuram aka Mamallapuram.
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