Every time I enter a dump yard or any place near it, I always end up having the same feeling- why would anyone want to live near a pile of dump? Most of the dump yard let out a strong stink and are not at all maintained. Heaps and heaps of garbage is dumped every … Continue reading Day Around the Dump Yard
Tshering Dorji I remembered one of my girlfriend texted me “Roses are red, sky is blue. I mind my own business, why don’t you. At first sight, I didn’t know what to react. I was like literally appalled by seeing her message. That was creepiest one though. It’s around early afternoon; I took an Ola … Continue reading Minding our own business
Five days back there was an oil spill in Bay of Bengal, few miles off the Ennore port in Chennai after two ships colided. Initially this incident dis not get enough coverage in the mainstream media which reminded me of a similar oil spill in Arabian sea off the Mumbai's coast which was all over … Continue reading Covering Ennore oil spill
BY: B.TILAK CHANDAR Chennai: Tambaram Railway Station, one of the busiest in Chennai with nine platforms has shortage of toilet facilities. The toilet for the Specially abled was found locked. Though the railway station is equipped with the other facilities, it lacks basic facilities like toilet and parking facility. The parking lot is not organised … Continue reading Clean station lacks toilet facility
BY: SOMDYUTI DATTA RAY Fifteen minutes. That was how long I stood at the RK Mutt Road crossing, wondering how to cross the road without getting myself run over. I would have called it an exaggeration had I not seen it for myself. The four roads that encircle Kapaleeshwarar Temple in Mylapore have a long-earned … Continue reading Dear Mada Streets: You Nearly Got Me Killed
It doesn't seem like a college campus by any stretch of one's imagination. Once I entered the IIT Madras campus through the Taramani gate it looked like a proper park with few buildings punctuating the forested area and a well maintained path leading the visitor to its heart. The trees, the monkeys and deer all … Continue reading Barring Humanity
Normally, no one would be interested in the “cooum” of our city. Well, sadly, that was my assignment. I had to report on the condition of “Buckingham canal” that does not exist in its true form anymore. Well in Chennai traffic, nothing else can replace a two wheeler. But my journey was partly in the … Continue reading Covering “Cooum”
Tannu Jain After a pleasant bike ride to the Napier’s bridge, the walk from Anna Memorial was very difficult. The slow moving crowd at MGR Smarakam did not help either. Reaching the Marina beach, as the hot sand burned my feet; I realized that beaches weren’t all that good. Finding the oil spill seemed impossible … Continue reading In search of an Oil Spill
Before today, so many evenings have been spent at Elliot's beach that I never thought of reporting and writing a story about the cleanliness and garbage scenario in the area. So when I started reading about it after being assigned the same, I learnt a lot of the environmental issues of beaches, the garbage dumped … Continue reading An evening in Elliot’s Beach
U M Abhijith Reporting essentially is an opportunity to meet different people and see different places. When I got story about a bus journey from Thiruvanmiyur to Tiruvattiyor, what striked me was the name of the latter place. I was hearing about the place for the first time. When I searched in Google maps, it … Continue reading Journey through different facets of Chennai
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