A new installation greets you at Elliot’s Beach, popularly called, Bessie. The aesthetic or utility value of it is not clear. Maybe it is used for collecting trash.
Anyway, it resembles a giant “Pac-man” one of the earliest computer/video games.
From The Chennai Photowalk, Car-Free Sunday, Retrowalk #68
With people becoming more health conscious, triggered by articles in the social and traditional media, we find many new & resurrected dishes and drinks on the market. This cart sells Spirulina Buttermilk and Flax Seed Buttermilk to morning walkers on Besant Nagar Beach.
The Chennai Photowalk – Retrowlk #68
Autorickshaws and stray cattle are both hazards on the Chennai roads. Here they seem to be in peaceful co-existence. Probably, planning the next assault.
On Tambaram – Madambakkam Road.
In the recent past, when a telephone was a rarity and a luxury most people depended on the Public Call Office (PCO) for everyday communication. The PCO’s were run by youth or women entrepreneurs. Sometimes, they were annexed to a traditional business.
With the advent of cheap and easily accessible mobile telephony, the PCO is now dead. (almost). Here an erstwhile PCO has been successfully transformed into a flower shop by two enterprising women.
Meet Dorai, a cycle rickshaw wallah on Kutchety Road, Mylapore. His vehicle was run down – with the seat covers peeling off, exposing the bare foam. The frame and fittings were also rusted. Though he looked over 50, he claims that he is only 39 years old. For all practical purposes, he seems to be eating and sleeping in his rickshaw.
Recently, a controversy has erupted in the political circles about the colour of the robe of Thiruvalluvar.
This gave me an opportunity to go back to my archives of photographers from the Thiruvalluvar temple, Mylapore.
As the temple was under renovation the idols were wrapped up in plastic sheets. As the weather-beaten blue sheets were crumbling the idols emerged hesitantly.
The next controversy could be about his beard or tuft.
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