Chennai – A few words round the square .

In spite of being an historic city which welcomes countless tourists all year round, She is also a place where people live, work, learn, fall in love and die. Sometimes she will draw your attention to her   history or to great art and architecture. But at all times I try to highlight the authentic, whether it be serious, ancient, amusing or modern.
A Cup of Coffee in the Square will give a personal introduction of her ,getting beyond the normal tourist sights and giving some clues to what it might be like to live in her .

Lets go have a cup and few words round the square !!!

The story of Chennai as a city began on a deserted stretch of sand some live Km long and two Km wide of the east coast of southern India, overlooking the Bay of Bengal.

A tourist visiting chennai will tend to be  directed to its history and in Chennai that history is extraordinarily rich.  But culture is a continuing process which moulds her cosmopolitan character.She is famed for her marghazhi dance – when the music season is in full wing as well anyone here can tap their foot for dappankuthu- endless dancing to funeral drums.

Engraved in memory as Madaras, she is always praised  as “ a metropolitan city “.She applauses herself as she  shines with the oldest surviving temples  ,multi-domed mosques ,cathedrals  for those who have religious bent of mind.
She boasts of the It industry which slowly bridges the economic barrier,spending power is on the upswing and young people are growing more confident. You can see her confidence on the streets and in the way mobile phones are proliterating.


She launders for a fair skin but  her men are mostly dark and women with a graceful smile (no matter what the colour is !!!) Fewer women are willing to wear the traditional and elegant sari; they prefer the more egalitarian comfort of the salwar kameez or even trousers and skirts. Yet, despite the process of modernization, issues of caste and community to underpin a society that is in the process of discovering itself.
Earlier, limited to her  main artery such as Anna Salai or Mount Road, now she  is experiencing an influx of newer, modern shopping centers all over the city.Her  coffee date can end up to merge hearts “A lot can happen over a coffee”- that’s the mantra of café coffee day .a long drive – her East coast road drives you mad.Name it for any occasion would land you up in a bazaar (yeah that’s pondy bazaar ).
She is a chatter box where her official language is Tamil – an ancient dravidian language dates back to around 300 BC .This girl seduces you with a warm welcome  “ vanakkam “  with all her surplus love……………