Yesterday while I was going to work in a bus, saw a fight between an auto driver and two guys on a bike near the signal. The biker had hit the auto and the auto driver was asking him to stop at the side of the road. But the guys on bike were trying to [...]

A few days back I went to the 32nd Chennai book fair held at St George’s Anglo-Indian School, Poonamallee High Road. It is an annual event held during the first few weeks of January. This year it is being held from 8th Jan to 18th by BAPASI. I went and got a few books and [...]

Yesterday’s newspaper had two interesting news items about Anna University. One was about a huge number of scholars getting PhDs from Anna University. And the other was about the sudden surge in the activity of papers published by Anna University. First, about the “377 PhDs being awarded“. For those who are lazy to read the [...]

For almost for the past 2 months, there was an ad on TV about a mobile store called Hash 10. It was criticizing another mobile shop – stating that their technicians are the best and they know a lot about mobiles unlike the other shop (which sells groceries and crackers).  During the Diwali weekend, we [...]

Chennai OpenCoffee Club – the first of its kind in India started by Vaidhy and Siddhi is now one year old. The club members meet on the first sunday of every month at the Amethyst coffee shop, Chennai. And August’s meet is on the 3rd. OpenCoffee Club is an event happening all over the world, [...]

Today while traveling to office in a public bus, there was a scene which is very common in chennai. There was a girl (pretty and good looking) and a guy (not so good looking, but we will come to that later), who were sitting together in the left side seat of the bus. To people [...]

In some popular residential areas of Chennai, there has been a psycho killer who for the past one month has killed about 8 persons. He targets people who sleep alone in the night out in the open – watchman, rag pickers, beggars, etc. He drops a huge stone on their head and then burns them. [...]

There was once a time when having a mobile phone in Anna University or its affiliated colleges, means confiscation and heavy fines for students. People used to hide the phones in various places and kept it in silent mode. There even used to be occassional raids and a bunch of phones would be taken off. [...]