[TughEmotteTug]

Hi friends on the forum,

I came across the subject “Working Together for a Better Chennai” in a website called "Chennai Transformation Network". The Home page starts with a “Welcome to Chennai” it explains the need to mobilize all available human resources to sort the issues that affect the well being of Chennai people.

The next subject is “About Chennai” which gives an elaborate account of the “Pains of Chennai” and “Problems of Chennai”. The solution offered to encounter and to correct all this misery is to conduct prayers. Well if sitting and praying can solve the problems of Chennai, since I am now retired, I would sit in my home in Germany, and pray all day. However, in reality this seems Hypothetical to me.

I am interested in Chennai for some reason I cannot give adequate meaning to. But, I have visited this city end of every year for many years. So, though I do not live in Chennai I have a natural instinct to see it better than what it is.

We all know the existing problems. Nevertheless, we are struggling to put them right and we know it is not that easy. As human beings we learn to complain from the day we are born. When we cry for milk a mother sorts out this problem. Learning this fact we always look forward to some one else sorting out our problems.

Until the day every Chennaite wakes up and joins hands with rest, a better Chennai will remain a dream. Not a single Chennai movie has moved the people of Chennai to make it a better place to live. After all movies are meant to teach us something apart from entertainment.
They seem to wake up the Beast in man and not the Best.

If I had offended anyone it was unintentional. In the best interests of Chennai Rajpriya

Problems of Chennai - Chennai Transformation Network

[hacyOrgachbic]

It is good to see some of the websites trying to highlight the positives and negatives of Chennai. I honestly am convinced that a number of Chennaites are interested in Chennai becoming a developed city like many of the western towns where there is clean water, good traffic regulation, good roads and infrastructure, respect for common man, better garbage disposal mechanism etc. However, due to various reasons outside our circle of influence (meaning, something, on which common man has little control, as quoted by Norman Vincent Peale in his book, ''The power of positive thinking"), this is taking a long time to resolve.

As rightly mentioned by you, most Tamil movies only attempt to wake up the beast rather than the best. But it is to be appreciated that there are a handful recent movies atleast making an attempt to wake up the best. I have always thought of an alternative that if Chennai is too crowded and is difficult to be managed or maintained, then why not people spread out to outer locations away from Chennai.

Regards,
Inno blogger