Tetris for the people!
The twentieth Chennai Photowalk and two more announcements
I know this is extremely short notice but this Sunday, the 19th July, is the 20th Chennai Photowalk. I’ve had a lot of things to catch up with, finish or otherwise deal with that I haven’t really planned a cool route or anything. Well, not a new one at least. the 5th Chennai Photowalk is a classic walk. Not just because I say so but because it was one of the first walks that saw 20+ people, a lot of fun and the first time on a photowalk I was flat on the ground in the middle of traffic.
So, here’s the plan.
On Sunday, at 7 AM, we begin the walk at Egmore station, walk down the road, meet Pantheon Road near the Albert Theatre junction, go past the Police Commissioner’s office, into the thick of Pantheon road, and end the walk at the Musuem and the Art Gallery (which is the Pantheon that gave its name to the road).
The route’s peppered with interesting buildings, great history and loads of photo-ops.
And yes, there are poor, homeless people living on the streets, but hey, you don’t have to photograph them. Not if you want to.
(There, sensitisation over)
Recap: Sunday, 19th July 2009 at 7:AM, Egmore Station.
Lines in the sand
There’s an unseen, thin border here. Invisible it may be, but unnoticed it is not. This border parallels the lines on the political map of India, seperating one people from the other. The haves are firmly and wholly on one side, the havenots outside, looking in. Not surprising, in a world of political correctness and a righteously indignant society turning good samaritans to aid and abett the socially inept, denied classes, that there are voices and arms raised against the continued existence of such a divisive, sectarian and partisan system that indulges in petty parochialism and regionalism. Yet it exists and strangely has support from the ruling elite and the ruled vulgars.
This border, this dividing line has a name – the Filter Coffee Line. It begins in Madras and ends there.
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Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan is a copywriter, photographer and goofball from Chennai. He is also an archaeologist, historian and a city lover. He is currently a documentary film-maker and desk-monkey for a film production house.
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