I love Chromepet too......

When I read Kasi's "I love Chromepet", I was thrilled. As a Chromepet vaasi (dweller) I also have some interesting stories. The description of the RN main road by Kasi is so accurate. I imagine that Kasi will talk about the great man born and lived in Bharathi Street.

Talking about the popularity of Chromepet several years back.....Chromepet is not like Mylapore or Adayar.....When somebody says they are from Mylapore or Adayar, it will strike immediately "Oh Mylaporaa....". Chromepet did not share the same popularity in those days. People will have to search their brain database....and then come to a conclusion "There should be some place like that somewhere in the globe....probably under developed!".

Or sometimes "Oh is that the place that smells (stinks!) leather when we pass by?!" ....Now folks, this is the route of the name "Chromepet" (peyar kaaranam)....after the Chrome leather factory....

It is not like that anymore. Now Chromepet has Medical College.....Probably it is the only town that has engineering and medically colleges so close, within a kilometer.

It is astonishing how the leather factory exerted its aroma!!! onto the GST road....The leather factory had two branches...one on the east and the west side... which is responsible for the concentrated focus of the smell.

The traffic of RN main road not only consisted of cars, buses, autos, rickshaws, cycles and TVS 50s, but also herds of buffaloes, which are the main dairy supply units for the whole town. It is very very fascinating how the narrow RN main road could accommodate such a diverse traffic without a single traffic constable. There may be fights among auto people and two wheelers, but never with buffaloes..... they are in fact peacemakers and speed breakers.

I should talk about the railway tracks.....For somebody who wants to learn patience, they should try to cross the railway track in a car during the morning rush hours....It is a very good spiritual saadhana.

It is something close to Einstein's paradox...when u travel in a car and wait at the railway track, you can see numerous trains cross and eventually the railway gate never opens. But when you get frustrated of waiting and decide to travel in train, you will find that the train never comes and will see the gate is open all the time allowing the traffic to cross.....Which is true....Still this paradox is unsolved.....

I will illustrate more in my next message....