tamil nadu
The Hindu Editorial on Protecting the Western Ghats
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/article2769353.ece The Hindu has a leader comment today, endorsing the view of scientists that the entire Western Ghats should be declared ecologically sensitive, and mining in Goa halted. In particular, the editorial calls for scrapping of the destructive Athirapilly and Gundia hydroelectric projects in Kerala and Karnataka respectively. If you believe the Western Ghats deserve [...]
Garbage block
The wide footpath in Rajaram Colony, Kodambakkam, Chennai, becomes useless midway for very visible reasons, and forces you to step on to the road.
At Chennai RTO West, learn about bottlenecking
I did not really find it difficult. I am a member of the Automobile Association of Southern India, which has a government-approved system of getting your RTO services done without having to seek out brokers and touts. Today, I spent some time at the Chennai RTO (West) serving large localities in the South West of [...]
State of Chennai food safety
This scene at the junction of Kodambakkam High Road and Jagannathan Road shows the concern of the Tamil Nadu Government towards public health, and even common sense. A row of footpath vendors serve lower cost meals to patrons from what are commonly known as ‘kaiyendhi bhavans’ – cart stalls that are stand-and-eat joints. The less [...]
Chennai Regional Passport office loves touts, hates taxpayers
We keep reading in highly regarded newspapers that the whole operation of issuing passports is to be taken over by software giant TCS, on behalf of the Government of India. A recent report in The Hindu quotes a TCS executive on this, but the roadmap he gives is vague at best. There is no assessment [...]
WEF honours Iranian journalist and calls for press freedom
The World Editors Forum, which met in 2009 in Hyderabad, is holding its annual conference this year in Hamburg, Germany. It has honoured the Iranian journalist Ahmed Zeid-Abadi with the Golden Pen award, and called for greater efforts to protect press freedom. Here is the report in journalism.co.uk. Recalling the difficult circumstances of the awardee’s [...]
Chennai Corporation on Twitter
The Chennai Corporation is on Twitter http://twitter.com/chennaicorp and it has an invitation on its website asking people to join the conversation. Not many seem to be doing so, while official tweets seem to have frozen on June 17. The last tweet by the civic body is one announcing its Tamil website. The Hindu recently wrote [...]
Pensioner Kanani: a welfare watchdog in Tamil Nadu
I like Pensioner Kanani for the high-quality service that it provides to retirees. The mainstream media is too preoccupied with breaking news, political games and pseudo-events to cover the retirement sector. One can imagine that they are also less interested in this population sub-set because pensioners are not aggressive consumers, and are therefore unattractive to [...]
How to send Reader’s Mail to The Hindu in Chennai
The Reader’s Mail column in The Hindu is one way of conveying grievances, complaints and suggestions to the Government and civic authorities such as Chennai Corporation, Metrowater, Municipalities, Panchayats and Metropolitan Transport Corporation. On July 5, The Hindu announced in its regional pages that the City Bureau would henceforth accept Reader’s Mail via e-mail. The [...]
