Hello everyone...
Before going into the much awaited story of 2008...let me introduce myself to the makkals..! I am Rajesh, an chromepet Aadivasi...! Sheikh "Kasi" abdulla "Raman" is a cool acquaintance turned relative to me....(local ah sonnaa akkaa purusen...)
Seri...Enough of buildupss...!
Coming to the story...sorry "Love story"
Chromepet- A small town just on the suburban fringe of Chennai maam pattinam!
It is My First Love - Bharathi raja style la sonna..."Enn iniya chromepettai"
Yes...Still the Love story continues and it is 23 years old now...!
Already my fellow bloggers Kasi and Vidhya have described Chromepet top to bottom! So Let me slide through the left out points...of them and of course the twists and turns of my Love story!
Chromepet has the most amazing thing I liked so much!! Railway station and Bus stand are so close and almost one and the same!!! Enna madhiri somberi makkalukku it cant get better than this!! Every Bus stops!!!! Namba Puliya maram bus stop is great....Am not sure whether the puliya maram stands there but it is still puliya maram bus stop!
Railway station la kedaikaadhe vegetables and fruits illa...On Evenings, it turns out to be a mini market...! I am still pissed off on seeing that Fast Train not stopping in chromepet station!!! Enna kodumai sir adhu!! I hate to go in that Fast train because it wont stop in chromepet. I don't know the situation now.
Next big thing is "Nayar Bhajji Kadai" I have spent so much of my Pocket money (Chillarai's) buying bhajji in that shop that if Nayar had saved it properly he could have bought both Swagath and Joy Bakery and even could have developed colloboration with Iyengar Bakery. Naayar kadai holiday is a "Dry day" in my Bhajji varalaaru!!
Next Big Big thing is the 'n' number of cricket war grounds one can find in "Namma chromepet" Now it has been stripped of almost all playgrounds but those days...They kept me living!! Aeri Karai, Pattabiram, Kurinji Nagar, CLC, Statebank colony ippadinu sollikite pogalaam...If I had enough money I would have directed a movie on my own titled "Chromepet 600044"
Like this our Love developed gradually from Railway station to Bhajji shop to Cricket.......Day by Day I started admiring her beauty more and more. I grew along with her...I walked around her, I danced with her! I played with her!! I lived every moment with her!!!
Ippadi enga love develop aayittu irukka....."As our Love was blossoming" (Like Povomaaaa Ooorvolammm.....)
Came the First twist!!
(Thodarum....)
(Continued...)
Kasi serial 8.30 ku na ennoda serial 9.00 Ku
Prime time serial!!! Don't Miss it!!
Special Mention: Thanks to Kasi for adding me as a contributor and giving me a chance to share my Love story with you all!
varta....
Friday 24 October 2008
Friday 10 October 2008
I love chromepet too- A road to my place!!!
Kasi had written about his birth place, Bharathi Street. For other blog followers and bloggers, I would like to you all to know that Kasi and I are play pals. We grew up and played together. We went to school together. I lived a little bit away from Bharathi Street where Kasi lived. But I am a daily visitor to Kasi's place since that was my grandfather's place too.
I will here describe shortly the path that leads to the great place where I was born and raised. Yes it is the Naidu Shop road.....But one has to overcome many trials and tribulations to reach Naidu shop road from Bharathi street.
The moment you cross Bharathi street and continue to follow the main road, you will be greeted by an unbearable smell (sariyaana Gabbu). Before your mind starts thinking about it, on to your right, you will see a small dust bin (kuppai thotti) made of concrete, has a size just about to
accommodate 2 school kids. It is very fascinating why people always love to put the waste exactly outside and around the dustbin. The bin is practically empty at all times. One potential problem could be: one needs to walk about 20 meters on the decaying waste matter
to reach the bin!
I would say the municipality could have set up a natural gas plant right there in the waste bin area and could have captured the methane gas that is arising out of the decay. Unfortunately I was not educated enough to suggest this. I am not sure if this still is the case. I heard
Chromepet is now becoming a Corporation....but it doesn't bother the waste bin...does it?!
For those people who cross RN main road everyday, I would say, their sense of smell would have completely gone....because they are immune to all these different kinds of sectors starting from the "kavuchi Kadai" to the "Gabbu".
You can have an enjoyable view of the waste bin from the AAVin ice cream / milk shop in the opposite side of the road. I have been a loyal customer of that shop...which explains my weight today! Beside that shop, is another snacks shop which is famous for the "kara sevai".
These shops are not the same anymore. Some do not even exist and the whole place now looks different.
What is more interesting is that, we can see many cart(mobile) shops close to the waste decay...like "elanndapazham, verkadalai (peanuts)" shops and a photo shop on the ground with blow ups of all tamil cinema actors....and the shop will have many big big hand kerchiefs which is very suitable for a "rowdi" makeup.....I still don't know why they sell it there. The source of electricity for these ground and cart shops is what is called as "betromas light". I donno the exact spelling of this light. But it will attract all the flies and insects directly from the waste decay and infecting ( or immunizing!) all the customers.
I am not sure, I remember a biriyani/pakoda cart shop also close by with very active business. I am sure the shop's monthly turnover is certainly greater than my first salary. When we cross the biriyani/pakoda shop, we will be hit by a smell which is a blend of pleasant pakoda and unpleasant old rancid oil. No matter whatever it is, when people cross this place in the evening, no doubts, their hunger hits the roof.
We pass this sector, then we are through with major fragrance sectors. I donno whether it is intentional or coincidental, RN has counter effects in different places. From the railway track, we would have smelled different things. But after crossing the kuppai thotti, we have a chance to completely eliminate the effects of all these things. Yes, there is a shop that grinds different pulses, dhalls, chillis etc (maavu mill). When we cross the maavu mill, almost everybody sneezes. This happens to be a very good exercise to bring out all the obnoxious smells out of our nose!
We are still walking straight. Then comes the "not so lit" area....many politicians came and went. But that part was never lit properly (although it is now). After a couple of good bakery shops and pharmacies, comes the Naidu Shop Road. Now we need to take a left. As soon as we enter and go a little further we see that the road becomes narrow and there are two river like formations widening into the road......Yes they are the Kaavai of Chromepet, the biggest open drainage rivers (kaavai) on the either side of the road. This is the second largest drainage river next to Koovam (chennai river...now supposedly a drainage river) that runs dare in living neighborhood.
This kaavai is the important reason that I am immune to malaria today. This has seen and supported trillions of mosquito generations and their mutations.
Every resident of that road had fallen into that river at least once in their life time including me. The part of the river in front of my house happens to have the largest width. So our house has been the sanitation and rescue ground for many fallen (in kaavai) people!
Rest in the next...
I will here describe shortly the path that leads to the great place where I was born and raised. Yes it is the Naidu Shop road.....But one has to overcome many trials and tribulations to reach Naidu shop road from Bharathi street.
The moment you cross Bharathi street and continue to follow the main road, you will be greeted by an unbearable smell (sariyaana Gabbu). Before your mind starts thinking about it, on to your right, you will see a small dust bin (kuppai thotti) made of concrete, has a size just about to
accommodate 2 school kids. It is very fascinating why people always love to put the waste exactly outside and around the dustbin. The bin is practically empty at all times. One potential problem could be: one needs to walk about 20 meters on the decaying waste matter
to reach the bin!
I would say the municipality could have set up a natural gas plant right there in the waste bin area and could have captured the methane gas that is arising out of the decay. Unfortunately I was not educated enough to suggest this. I am not sure if this still is the case. I heard
Chromepet is now becoming a Corporation....but it doesn't bother the waste bin...does it?!
For those people who cross RN main road everyday, I would say, their sense of smell would have completely gone....because they are immune to all these different kinds of sectors starting from the "kavuchi Kadai" to the "Gabbu".
You can have an enjoyable view of the waste bin from the AAVin ice cream / milk shop in the opposite side of the road. I have been a loyal customer of that shop...which explains my weight today! Beside that shop, is another snacks shop which is famous for the "kara sevai".
These shops are not the same anymore. Some do not even exist and the whole place now looks different.
What is more interesting is that, we can see many cart(mobile) shops close to the waste decay...like "elanndapazham, verkadalai (peanuts)" shops and a photo shop on the ground with blow ups of all tamil cinema actors....and the shop will have many big big hand kerchiefs which is very suitable for a "rowdi" makeup.....I still don't know why they sell it there. The source of electricity for these ground and cart shops is what is called as "betromas light". I donno the exact spelling of this light. But it will attract all the flies and insects directly from the waste decay and infecting ( or immunizing!) all the customers.
I am not sure, I remember a biriyani/pakoda cart shop also close by with very active business. I am sure the shop's monthly turnover is certainly greater than my first salary. When we cross the biriyani/pakoda shop, we will be hit by a smell which is a blend of pleasant pakoda and unpleasant old rancid oil. No matter whatever it is, when people cross this place in the evening, no doubts, their hunger hits the roof.
We pass this sector, then we are through with major fragrance sectors. I donno whether it is intentional or coincidental, RN has counter effects in different places. From the railway track, we would have smelled different things. But after crossing the kuppai thotti, we have a chance to completely eliminate the effects of all these things. Yes, there is a shop that grinds different pulses, dhalls, chillis etc (maavu mill). When we cross the maavu mill, almost everybody sneezes. This happens to be a very good exercise to bring out all the obnoxious smells out of our nose!
We are still walking straight. Then comes the "not so lit" area....many politicians came and went. But that part was never lit properly (although it is now). After a couple of good bakery shops and pharmacies, comes the Naidu Shop Road. Now we need to take a left. As soon as we enter and go a little further we see that the road becomes narrow and there are two river like formations widening into the road......Yes they are the Kaavai of Chromepet, the biggest open drainage rivers (kaavai) on the either side of the road. This is the second largest drainage river next to Koovam (chennai river...now supposedly a drainage river) that runs dare in living neighborhood.
This kaavai is the important reason that I am immune to malaria today. This has seen and supported trillions of mosquito generations and their mutations.
Every resident of that road had fallen into that river at least once in their life time including me. The part of the river in front of my house happens to have the largest width. So our house has been the sanitation and rescue ground for many fallen (in kaavai) people!
Rest in the next...
Thursday 9 October 2008
Chromepet My Heaven - Part III
Vanakam Nanbargalay..
Sorry for the delayed posts, got held up with the Navratri celebration. With great difficulty returning to normalcy with respect to 'TIME' as well as 'DIGESTION!!'.
Coming back to the history of a 'GREAT PERSON's birth story...
It was a humid early morning.. in tamil they say it 'Brahma Muhurtham' silence prevading all the places, ready for the dawn, clocks ticking slowly. When the time was 4.10 AM there came a cry of a baby, entering into this earth.. and this is the birth of the so called 'GREAT PERSON' of the Bharathi Street of RN.. Let the person identification be still secret. Its easy for many people to guess it, but I wish to maintain the 'Mega Serial' style of describing..!!
As per the statistics I came across, great people and great events happens only between the date 20 till 30 of any month. It was not an exception in the case of this 'Bharathi Street' new born too.. it was between the above said date only.. Wow, what a surprise.. hhmm. Great..
That was a peak summer month. As we all know, chennai's Climate is termed as 'Hot','Hotter','Hottest'... So the month was a 'Hottest'one.. and also as a normal trend severe drought and water scarcity across chennai particularly in Chromepet, RN.. But this birth of the new born, brought heavy thunder showers in RN (not sure of other areas..)and kept a full stop to all the sufferings of RN people from the water scarcity and drought.. Wow, what a surprise.. This may even be a coincidence.. let it be... But still that hospital in Bharathi Street remains with the same structure apart from few external (outer) paintings and internal enhancements.. Structural part of the hospital remains the same till this day..!!! Wow, what a surprise again..
This is the history of the 'Great Person' of Bharathi Street for time being..
Just few steps from the hospital gives a superb fragrance of food.. both in the evening and morning..If some one in RN does not know this particular place, then they are not eligible to be in RN.. Whats that? Can any of you recognise. Keep guessing...
Enna Nanbargalay.. Saraswathy pujai and vijayadasami ellam nallabadiya mudinjuda? Ellarum books ellam pujaiyil vaicheengala?.. RN la edavadu new shop open aacha?
catch you all soon. Enjoy and have a nice week end...
Sorry for the delayed posts, got held up with the Navratri celebration. With great difficulty returning to normalcy with respect to 'TIME' as well as 'DIGESTION!!'.
Coming back to the history of a 'GREAT PERSON's birth story...
It was a humid early morning.. in tamil they say it 'Brahma Muhurtham' silence prevading all the places, ready for the dawn, clocks ticking slowly. When the time was 4.10 AM there came a cry of a baby, entering into this earth.. and this is the birth of the so called 'GREAT PERSON' of the Bharathi Street of RN.. Let the person identification be still secret. Its easy for many people to guess it, but I wish to maintain the 'Mega Serial' style of describing..!!
As per the statistics I came across, great people and great events happens only between the date 20 till 30 of any month. It was not an exception in the case of this 'Bharathi Street' new born too.. it was between the above said date only.. Wow, what a surprise.. hhmm. Great..
That was a peak summer month. As we all know, chennai's Climate is termed as 'Hot','Hotter','Hottest'... So the month was a 'Hottest'one.. and also as a normal trend severe drought and water scarcity across chennai particularly in Chromepet, RN.. But this birth of the new born, brought heavy thunder showers in RN (not sure of other areas..)and kept a full stop to all the sufferings of RN people from the water scarcity and drought.. Wow, what a surprise.. This may even be a coincidence.. let it be... But still that hospital in Bharathi Street remains with the same structure apart from few external (outer) paintings and internal enhancements.. Structural part of the hospital remains the same till this day..!!! Wow, what a surprise again..
This is the history of the 'Great Person' of Bharathi Street for time being..
Just few steps from the hospital gives a superb fragrance of food.. both in the evening and morning..If some one in RN does not know this particular place, then they are not eligible to be in RN.. Whats that? Can any of you recognise. Keep guessing...
Enna Nanbargalay.. Saraswathy pujai and vijayadasami ellam nallabadiya mudinjuda? Ellarum books ellam pujaiyil vaicheengala?.. RN la edavadu new shop open aacha?
catch you all soon. Enjoy and have a nice week end...
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