There is an article about Calcutta by Vir Sanghvi which can tell you what this ‘soul’ means. If you think the weather, the discs and the english speaking elite is all that you need in a city, then Chennai is not the right place.

Good to see a movement to promote the ‘chennaite’ feeling! Hats off to the effort.

Early Morning Rise from bed

Brushing your teeth by sitting on the stone intended for washing clothes(we never had a bathroom
sink in the house till i was 22)

Freshly prepard filter coffee by my mom

My father’s obssession with brahminical traditions and rituals(Hope he never reads this)

Quickly taken bath from a bucket of water (not from those fancy showers and bath tubs)

Hanging on to the footboard of overcrowded PTC(Pallavan transport corporation) bus with the strong
wind smashing on your forehead and the bus conductor yelling at you at every chance asking you to come inside the bus so that you will live to see the next day

Playing cricket with my brother, cousins and my friends in the backyard and getting into lot of heated arguments during the game.

Festive season of Deepavali( i can never call it diwali)

10 paisa popsicle(called ‘kuchi ice back’ in chennai) sold by vendors pushing their hand cart

Ogling at girls in temples and Bus stops

Thx for the posting Maharajan about ILC in lazygeek. I herein invite you all to visit http://www.ilovechennai.com. Itz the website of ILC brand identity – a graphic element designed mainly for our city and residents to express our love. and yes! this is entirely different from Iloveny..as it is not tourist oriented…It started as “Yen Chennai” and due to various reasons got to be changed to ILC. juz download the identity in your favourite color… print and stick it!
Thank you!
regards
Krishna

This is something even I cannot explain properly. Maybe, I can say that the fact that i have never seen better weather conditions in all those 23 years was the reason. Talking about Bangalore weather, if you get used to it for sometime it will make Chennai weather suck big time. After getting used to the cooler weather here in bangalore, even a weekend in Chennai would be something that’d make you think twice before going there. Believe me, I have also been in places which are hotter than Chennai and I have managed a bit. But Chennai’s humidity is something that cannot be matched. oru joke -”Arctic la irunthuttu kooda say ‘Chennai’ and you will start sweating “.

“Let us face it Chennai has a typical tropical climate”

Adha face panna mudiyalennu dhaan me escape

“Climate/weather should should never be given as reasons for a citites survivability. Infrastructure, facilities, Polictics – yes.”

Infrastructure, facilities, politics – these things are not permanent. They keep changing. You can find ways to overcome them. But not the nature. Anyway, since this is subjective and individualistic. Weather figures right up there as #1 factor for me and it might not for others. Chennai is a fantastic city for me. It is just that the weather sucks, unfortunately!!! Yerkanave sonna maadhiri I’d love to take chennai with me wherever I go leaving that sticky weather back.

In short I would not trade my chennai with any tiny, cooler city, phoney, costly city in India.

My 2 cents.

-Raga

desam muzhudhum paesum mozhigal, thamizh pol iniththidumaa aa aa aa aaaa !

how about making a brand name like “I love NY” from chennai.

here’s one – http://photos32.flickr.com/36222952_6db29db112_m.jpg

putting it on my blog.