…. an essential element is the sacrificial fire – the divine Agni – into which oblations are poured, as everything that is offered into the fire is believed to reach the gods. It is performed to please the gods or to attain certain wishes. Its an Hindu culture.
Its performed before one moves to a [...]
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7 Dec
Homam …..
9 Nov
Chennai & Rains – 2009 Ver 1.0
(the visibility is almost 5-10 meters, scene at “0″ point of Chennai)
(absolutely empty Mount Road on Saturday 11am)
(from my work station and enjoying the rains)
On popular demand (even if one asks for more pictures, its popular demand ) …. this years 1st rain spells caught here. You might remember the last years Rains. [...]
20 Aug
Graffiti – How its painted
Many of us have seen the political graffiti’s on the Chennai City walls here in DailyPhoto Chennai.
Now please see how the same is painted now, the painter here uses an old invite card / picture of the political leaders and matching the skin tones etc to bring the smile of the leader to the city [...]
23 Jul
Osho
Born as Chandramohan Jain, later called as Bhagwan Rajneesh and fondly called as Osho.
There’s a new store in town only stocking Osho Books, speeches in CD / DVD forms, Media and more in Chennai. Osho Glimpse, Next to e-Zone, Alwarpet. In the 1st floor.
9 Jul
Mac or Mad
…. As if the entire neighbourhood of Anna Nagar (a suburb of Chennai) was starving without food for months together and thanks to the new store launch of McDonalds at the neighbourhood reduced the starving, crossed my mind when i saw the crowds / queues waiting outside the store on the day of the launch [...]
26 Jun
Thirst Brigade
An unique way to popularise your product, especially this summer extending beyond May & the Agni Natchathiram’s. 7Up’s come out with this Unique vehicle called Lemon Brigade in lines of a Fire Brigade Van, just that here one quenches the inner fire called thirst.
23 Jun
Idly & Dosa
Was surprised when the Sathyam Cinemas started this eatery inside their premise, called ID (short form for Idly Dosa?). But the quality, pricing, and the ambiance has been so refreshing and good, i’ve been there several times.
A must check out for many foodies, especially the vegetarians. Check out the Kasi Halwa, Pongal or the [...]
18 Jun
Calculate
… the amount of electricity used by these offices / shops. Was amazed to see 23 Meter boxes in a single complex and that’s not the end of it & this was just on one wing of the building.
The consumption of electricity has gone up way above the usual, irrespective of Earth Hours and [...]
8 Jun
Rusting
Most of the Tow vehicles in Chennai are the part of the Police (or in their Duty) only. Which are normally used to tow away the vehicles from No-Parking zones across the city. Predominantly this happens towards the month-ends & month startings, for obvious reasons.
Not many such vehicles ply for the Paid duties for the [...]
20 Apr
More publicity options
Yes the dearth of publicity space makes the marketing planners think unique. After the Mobile Hoardings, Bus panels … now its the Water tanks.
20 Mar
Hopon & Hopoff
Many must have seen the stops for the Hopon/Hopoff tours introduced by TTDC (Tamilnadu Tourism Development Corporation) here, this is the bus the tourism department uses for these tours.
Good idea to have used the one-way vision vinyls on the bus windows to seemlessly allow view from inside and nothing visible of inside from out. (similar [...]
25 Feb
Gemini flyover
Anna Flyover also known as Gemini flyover came into existence in 1973. Built in the land, which had the Gemini studios brought the name as Gemini flyover too. This is the foundation / opening stone of the flyover.
Also the statues on both sides with a man reining the horses to commomerate the stopping of horse [...]
16 Feb
Beloved’s day
I always suspect that the opposition and the marketing team of these “Special Days” work together to increase sales of their wares.
Me such a cynic nah!
Such was the case in the recent “V-Day” too …. in this case even some lingerie manufactures benefited in the bargain.
Scene @ Landmark store, Spencer’s.
6 Feb
Vrindavan
My love for this restaurant continues i presume.
Their Food, the ambience & the service is all good and makes a must visit & repeat for a few times atleast.
5 Feb
Post it
The postal department in India is revamping its offering, looks et al. From selling Mutual Funds, Insurance, Speed Post, Bulk Mailing of Bills for various service providers and more …..
They also recently rejigged their Brand Logo (what you see above as a wavy structure below the words LETTER).
Now the Old post box too has changed [...]
2 Feb
Leather 2009
Yesterday the Leather Industry in Chennai had their annual fashion show of their products. Ranging from apparels, shoes, accessories, bags and more.
I liked the following aspects in the show, the way it was organised, the giveaways from StoneandBone (the new entrant in india in the kids leather products), the performance by the Kalakshetra trained troupe [...]
23 Jan
Kurukshetra
College of engineering of Guindy, Anna University is conducting the Techno – Management festival till 24th.
What attracted me to post about this here is : Now the packaging for these college festivals have become very professional, the offerings for the sponsors & the attendees have also become interesting. For example, they now don’t call these [...]
21 Jan
Fleetmaster
Its a classic Chevrolet Fleetmasters, from the late 1940’s. These sedans were “fat tendered” cars suiting the then fashion / trend among car buyers.
I guess this one is owned by the Management of New Woodlands hotel and can be found in a very good condition in their compound.
9 Jan
MTC’s Gold
One more unique colour combination from the local Metropolitan Transport Corporation. The Gold and Pink colour combination is apart from the erstwhile green, the new grey, the bright yellow ………. in their stable.
Seen at Haddows road, opp SCOPE.
7 Jan
Mylai Karpagambal mess
Lip smacking, yummy, delicious are some the adjectives that could be used for this eatery. Simple tables, a small cubbyhole area demarked for A/c diners land a larger area for Non – A/c plus amazing food is the concoction of this success formula.
I was told that the legend is top industrialists, executives stop their vehicles [...]
28 Dec
Che
The Legend of Ernesto Che Guevara still exists in most parts of our country too i guess.
See this bicyclist wearing Che on his Tee, seen at Mylapore – Luz signal.
27 Dec
White revolution
Operation Flood started in 1970’s by National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) was aimed to create a “White Revolution” among Milk producers and avoid the seasonality of this business for the Milk Farmers. This formed a Milk Grid and the Gujarat Based AMUL’s then cheif Mr Verghese Kurien was the moving factor behind this.
Our own Aavin [...]
24 Dec
eWaste
Can you spot what this mini van carrying?
Yes the junked PCs, Monitors. Probably the 386’s, 486’s, P1’s et al. That makes one wonder how they dispose the eWaste’s from these junked electronic goods, and more critically how they do it without harming the nature, environment.
Or do these get ripped apart and sold partwise (salavagable one’s [...]
23 Dec
once in a RED moon
An unique way to serve the water melon juice, at Hotel Sennthur opp Spencer Plaza, Anna Salai.
They also were serving something unique called “Butter Curd” shots. Ordered it and later realised they were “Bitter Gourd” shots served like your tequila shots in their Health Combo. Hmmm … was not bad though.
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