Brighton Beach
Brighton is a sea side town near London, like Mahabs (without the history) for Chennai. Come summer you can see most Londoners and thousands of bikers thronging the beach in Brigton. It is a typical western beach town with a famous pier full of tacky thrill rides, seafood restaurants, casinos abd video game parlors. [...]

DMK election manifesto is the by far funniest read in this century. Not convinced with efficacy of usual promises, K.Karunanidhi has promised whatever has caught his fancy. Some highlights,

Free color TV for women (for entertainment and general knowledge)

Free Gas stove

1 Kg rice for Rs 2 (the Tamil politicians can never leave rice alone)

Free 2 acre [...]

No this post is not about which is a better city (my bias should be obvious) nor my intention to divide the people of Tamilnadu. This is about the potential of Coimbatore (Kovai) to seriously rival Chennai as an industrial and economic powerhouse of Tamilnadu in some distant future. Even today if we consider the [...]

As a Chennai lover, I was once aware of every single high-rise building of Chennai and most of the other important historical buildings too. So when saw a news, TIAM house changes hands in The Hindu, it struck a chord. This is not really a Chennai landmark or a building with much heritage or architectural [...]

In what started as a routine post election petition by a small time Congress(I) politician that led to the disqualification of Jaya Bachan has culminated in the resignation of Sonia G from parliament and the post of chairman of National Advisory Council. It was supposed on the principle (a figure of speech not one that [...]

Jaya TV, the only Tamil channel I get to watch here (thanks to Num TV) usually shows junk movies. Not that its other programmes are any better (with a few honorable exceptions). So, I was pleasantly surprised to see ‘Sippikkul Muthu’ last saturday. Now this is not the first time I am seeing it but [...]