RIP Chennai. You will never become the great city you can, but will end as a dirty small town.
Tharkuris have planned to abandon Parandur airport. It is the last nail on the coffin.
Unfortunately, very very few would even understand why I say what I say.
Mourn for Chennai.
I compared costs of 7XO vs XEV9S with weekly 500 km highway runs. In the diesel variant the 7XO has a cheaper total cost of ownership over 3 years. Apart from quiet driving experience the EV doesn't have a strong use case
In Lajpat, you can now pay ₹149/hr for someone to carry your bags, wait in food queues, walk you to the metro, find you a place to sit, and even set up a foldable chair.
interesting biz !!
My friend made 1 crore last month.
He is 26
No IIT. No IIM. Engineering dropout.
First salary: 24k.
Last month: 1 crore.
What changed?
He stopped looking for jobs.
And started selling his dad's land.
While the marginal uptick in social diversity is appreciable, the TVK ministry is a serious downgrade in competence. But the ousted Dravidoid ministry (barring a few honourable exceptions like outgoing FM) was so obnoxious and feudalist in its public conduct that, TVK govt merely doing faux humility laced performative PR (which they have aced) will suffice in managing public perception.
Having lived in both Chennai and Bangalore, here is my take on these cities today.
Chennai's fall started when it lost its waterways to sewage. The city's beautiful beaches got lost out to illegal kuppams like Ayothikkupam, creating a law and order situation near the beach.
In 90s. Bangalore was a cosmopolitan city, filled with lots of trees, weather was pleasant. Very elite for an Indian city. One can get from one end of the city to the other end in 25 mins. Had pubs around the brigade road, residency road area.
Today it is crowded, become a concrete jungle, weather a few degrees more due to the cutting of trees in the name of development.
Unless one has the compulsion to live bcos of work, where Bangalore scores over Chennai handsdown, it is pointless to move into either one of these cities. Rather choose a small city like Mysore for improved QOL.
The hate on Chennai by those outside of the 4 southern states has nothing to do with Chennai being “dehat” or anything to do with Chennai itself.
It’s poorly veiled frustration at their language privilege not working in Tamil Nadu.
Forget chennai blr. Go where the money takes you and retire in the hills by 45 or even better emigrate to a small cheap nation, maybe south America? Get out of dehati India. Indias only export worth mentioning is labor
Accurate - I say this as someone who was born here, grew up here & continues to live here. The scene is terrible if you’re not in finance/law/manufacturing. The tech “ecosystem” is basically Freshworks & Zoho. And if you’re in marketing, better pack your bags for Bengaluru :)
And a few of the elder millennials born between 80-90 are returning, albeit a few, with kids in tow because Chennai still is a good place to raise kids. lets see if they do something to revive the city
I see a lot about Chennai. Chennai had a lot of buzz and creative energy right upto 2011-12. And then just died. Remember Earthsync festival? Other Festival? And then it seems everyone just left. Now its dead
In summation, if you are not from Chennai, its unlikely you will settle down here. The real estate is crazy. Even if you are from here, more likely for jobs, you will be forced to shift.