Thank You, Ekanapuram, for destroying Tamil Nadu’s economic opportunity.
Parandur could’ve been Tamil Nadu’s Shenzhen moment.
A new city could’ve grown around the airport, right next to the Sriperumbudur–Oragadam industrial belt, creating jobs for lakhs of young graduates and attracting offices, manufacturing, R&D, logistics and more.
And the biggest advantage? Connectivity.
🔸 Bengaluru–Chennai Expressway
🔸 Chennai–Bengaluru High-Speed Rail
🔸 Airport Express Metro
You rarely get all three major modes of connectivity converging around a new airport.
Parandur was planned as a 100-million-passenger-per-year airport, with an air freight village and the potential to become the centre of a massive new economic corridor.
A once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a new economic powerhouse around Chennai is now gone.
Hot take :- A.R Rehman in his prime was the greatest music director alive globally . Simply unreal range and fusion of Carnatic/hindustani musical with western sounds . Till today I find sounds that current gen music composers use that originated from his compositions.
Only 66 years from first flight to landing on the Moon in 1969.
Here we are, 76 years later cannot yet return to the Moon. We should have been on Mars by now.
@NivasPokkiri Some of the underrated songs so far this year (non-ARR)
1. Thenkizhakku - Vaazhai
2. Otha Satti Soru - Vaazhai
3. Theera, Mannavan - Election
4. First Rain - Star
5. Yaadhumagi Ninrai - Vivek Mervin Originals
Happy that he got '7' awards, but he was criminally overlooked for:
Thiruda Thiruda
Dil Se,
Taal,
Jodha Akbar,
RDB,
Delhi 6,
Rockstar,
Kochadiyan.
#ARRahman#NationalAwards2024